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The federal government won a record $240 million settlement against a turkey producer that held 32 mentally disabled men in servitude while mentally and physically abusing them, some of them for more than 20 years. A Davenport, Iowa jury on May 1, 2013, awarded the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) damages totaling $240 million […]
Continue reading …When President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. While women hold nearly half of today’s jobs, and their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial wellbeing of their families, they […]
Continue reading …A must-read for Equal Pay Day, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has published its annual pay gap analysis, The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, complete with charts on the gender pay gap broken down by state, race/ethnicity, education, and age. The analysis shows that one of the widest pay gap disparities is […]
Continue reading …The federal minimum wage in the United States has been a hotly debated ever since it was enacted in 1938. Labor activists and liberals have actively pushed for a higher minimum wage, claiming that the minimum wage must also serve as an adequate living wage for all workers. The current minimum wage rate, they claim, […]
Continue reading …Wage-and-hour litigation remains the fastest-growing area of employment litigation, according to the law firm Crowell & Moring. According to a 2011 NERA Economic Consulting study, employers paid an average of $5.8 million to settle a wage-and-hour case. There is some evidence that such settlement amounts have declined somewhat in recent years. However, the average employer […]
Continue reading …Thousands of home workers employed by kgb USA were misclassified as independent contractors and and paid less than minimum wage, a federal judge ruled. A federal judge ordered kgb USA Inc., the world’s largest independent provider of directory assistance and enhanced information services, to pay $1.3 million in minimum wage compensation to 14,568 current and […]
Continue reading …Clean power generation equipment maker Bloom Energy was caught cheating workers it imported from Mexico to Silicon Valley, paying them far below minimum wage. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Bloom Energy Corp. has been ordered to pay $31,922 in back wages and an equal amount in damages to 14 workers that the company imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, to […]
Continue reading …It’s the law: Strippers in Kansas are entitled to unemployment benefits. In a labor law case that took eight years to dance its way through the state legal system, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that strippers are employees and are entitled to unemployment insurance. Siding with the state Department of Labor, the Kansas Supreme Court […]
Continue reading …The workforce at a warehouse run by Hershey’s chocolate contractors melted down in sweatshop conditions in August 2011, exposing a summer employment scam that took advantage students from around the world. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered more than $213,000 in back wages for 1,028 foreign students who worked in summer jobs in […]
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