Labor and Employment

Social Business Boom Brings Legal Obligations

New kinds of communications platforms have emerged, allowing organizations to improve business performance by way of direct engagement with customers, […]

Why Ban-The-Box?

In a Q&A, Bloomberg BNA talks to a senior policy researcher with the RAND Corporation, about the history and rationale […]

Male, College-Educated Republicans Most Likely To Work On Vacation

A survey of more than 2,000 Americans found that well over half of those who reported taking a vacation worked […]

Charlize Theron And Transparency In Fighting The Gender Pay Gap

When the massive Sony hack revealed that many actresses in Hollywood are paid less than their male counterparts, Charlize Theron […]

Key Employee-Benefit Provisions In Last-Minute 2014 Laws

In December, President Obama signed two cryptically named pieces of legislation, shorthanded as “the Cromnibus” and “the Extender Act.” The […]

California Court Mandates Pay For ‘Sleep Time’

The California Supreme Court ruled this week that for some occupations—such as 24-hour security guards who sleep for eight hours […]

SCOTUS Dings Obama Administration On Drug Deportation

The case of a Tunisian professor with two Master’s degrees who was deported after he was found with four pills […]

Wages Not Buoyed In Economic Recovery

Though employment numbers keep improving, wages for the average worker have not increased, according to the New York Times. Employers […]

A Needed Redefinition Of “Full-Time” Work

Writing on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website, Sean Hackbarth looks at the pros and cons of changing the definition […]

Employers Appeal To SCOTUS Over EEOC’s ‘Systemic Litigation’ Discrimination Cases

The government has not put enough effort into settling discrimination lawsuits, an Illinois mining company is arguing before the Supreme […]

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