Labor and Employment
President Obama is trying to ease fiscal restraints at DOL that have kept the Office from Administrative Law Judges from hiring personnel and led to massive backups, which ALJ Chief Judge Stephen Purcell said ” we will not likely recover for years to come.”
Northwestern football players will decide on April 25 whether or not they want to form a union, upending the regulations […]
Georgia has joined a number of other states in enacting legislation that provides employers who hire an ex-convict with a […]
Only by understanding the limits on OSHA’s authority, writes Goldberg Segalla attorney Michael Rubin, can you make an intelligent decision […]
A judge in the Southern District of California ruled that individual issues would predominate, as he decertified a class of […]
Age discrimination complaints to the EEOC have risen by nearly 50 percent since the turn of the century, and given the growing risk managers would be wise to watch out for discriminatory language.
The “ministerial exception” allows religious organizations to make employment decisions without government involvement, and was effective for Intervarsity Christian Fellowship to block a lawsuit from a former spiritual director who was fired for getting a divorce.
Though public sector employees who raise concerns about their employer’s programs and activities receive some protections under the law, they’re not insulated from unrelated adverse employment actions.
A deaf employee who was repeatedly rude and sarcastic to co-workers was fired, and then sued claiming he was shown the door for dismissing 12 out of 14 interpreters provided for him. Detailed workplace records led the employer’s account to prevail in court.
Standard& & Poor’s 500 companies pay their chief executives 331 times that of the average production and nonsupervisory worker, according […]
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