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'Nice skirt, it would look better on my bedroom floor' – your sexual harassment stories
10/09/2017 Comments Off on 'Nice skirt, it would look better on my bedroom floor' – your sexual harassment storiesDiversity
Continue reading …Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers
12/01/2017 Comments Off on Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers
By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time using timekeeping software, some of which are legal and others highly questionable. If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your […]
Continue reading …Title VII Federal Sector Provision Allows Hostile Environment Claims
13/10/2016 Comments Off on Title VII Federal Sector Provision Allows Hostile Environment ClaimsBy Joy Waltemath and Dave Strausfeld, J.D. — An employee of the Department of Homeland Security could bring a sexual harassment claim notwithstanding the government’s argument that Title VII’s federal-sector provision does not permit such claims because it states “[a]ll personnel actions affecting employees . . . shall be made free from any discrimination based on race, color, […]
Continue reading …By David Stephanides — In September 2016, the NLRB suffered two notable rebukes from the D.C. Circuit. In the first case, though the appeals court agreed that an employer unlawfully suspended two employees for alleged misconduct during a strike and eliminated a position held by a union worker, it remanded the case as to the discharge of […]
Continue reading …Final Overtime Rules Attacked By 21 States, Business Coalition Suing DOL
24/09/2016 Comments Off on Final Overtime Rules Attacked By 21 States, Business Coalition Suing DOL
By Joy Waltemath and Pamela Wolf, J.D. — Nevada, joined by 20 other states, has filed a lawsuit in Texas—undoubtedly perceived as friendly after the success of the recent litigation over immigration reform—challenging Department of Labor’s final overtime rules under the Tenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act. Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt […]
Continue reading …Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules For Injured Workers
21/09/2016 Comments Off on Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules For Injured Workers
By Michael Grabell ProPublica, Sept. 13, 2016 — A national campaign to rewrite state laws and allow businesses to decide how to care for their injured workers suffered a significant setback Sept. 13, 2016, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma’s version of the law is unconstitutional. The 2013 legislation gave Oklahoma employers the ability […]
Continue reading …Franchisor Defendants Were ‘Joint Employers’ In FLSA Action
20/09/2016 Comments Off on Franchisor Defendants Were ‘Joint Employers’ In FLSA ActionBy Joy Waltemath and Lorene D. Park, J.D. — Refusing to dismiss franchisor defendants from an FLSA collective action by 23 employees of a hotel franchisee, a federal district court in New York found that the plaintiffs plausibly alleged that the franchisor defendants asserted “functional control” over hotel employees such that they could be liable as joint employers. For […]
Continue reading …Precedent Overturned NLRB Revamps ‘Past Practice’ Unilateral Change Doctrine
08/09/2016 Comments Off on Precedent Overturned NLRB Revamps ‘Past Practice’ Unilateral Change DoctrineBy Joy Waltemath and Lisa Milam-Perez, J.D. — On remand from the D.C. Circuit, a divided four-member NLRB held that DuPont violated Section 8(a)(5) of the Act when it made unilateral changes to bargaining unit employees’ benefit plans after expiration of a collective bargaining agreement. Reaffirming its prior stance that the employer’s unilateral changes were unlawful, the majority, more […]
Continue reading …Volkswagen Must Bargain With UAW, NLRB orders
06/09/2016 Comments Off on Volkswagen Must Bargain With UAW, NLRB orders
By Joy Waltemath and Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. — Volkswagen must recognize and bargain with a UAW local union at the automaker’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant, a three-member panel of the NLRB ordered in a summary judgment ruling. By failing and refusing since December 2015 to recognize and bargain with the union as the exclusive bargaining representative of its employees in […]
Continue reading …Employment Law Legal Research Libraries – TOOL
14/02/2016 Comments Off on Employment Law Legal Research Libraries – TOOLBy David Stephanides — The WK Labor & Employment Law Library provides publications in a single comprehensive source for labor and employment law. WK publications include fair employment practices, labor relations and disabilities law at the federal and state levels and provides comprehensive primary source research materials, annotated explanations along with news and current developments. Aspen Publishers […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill