Labor and Employment
A trade organization and a small business advocacy group challenged the ambush election rules that went in effect in April with a four-point argument that was rebuffed by a federal judge on all four counts.
Now that a California regulator has ruled that Uber drivers should be considered employees, rather than contractors, other companies in […]
There has been a surge in lawsuits making claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which most employers now understand applies not just to credit reports, but to all kinds of consumer reports.
Automating employee search would speed up the process, reduce costs, and result in a more diverse workplace, say proponents of […]
Whether they are worried about getting blind-sided by a definitional change of “contract worker” (as signaled by a recent California […]
A jury rejected gender discrimination claims lodged by Ellen Pao, a former employee at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner […]
In March 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its first pregnancy discrimination decision since 1991. The issue was an […]
Widespread employee use of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media has drawn the attention of both the NLRB and […]
Leaders in the business community claim that raising the salary threshold for overtime will be a job-killer, but a writer […]
Passage of the Pacific free trade agreement now appears likely, with many wondering what all the discord was about. The […]
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