Sep 6, 2012

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Simhon: Labor laws will lift families out of poverty
Jerusalem Post
One hundred thousand Israeli families will rise above the poverty line thanks to a new law that strengthens enforcement of labor laws, Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Shalom Simhon predicted Wednesday. Speaking at a symposium hosted by his ministry ...
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Berry farmer, labor contractor admit labor law violations
Bellingham Herald
A Whatcom County berry grower and a Ferndale labor contractor have agreed to pay fines in connection with alleged violations of federal laws on employment of children and minimum wages. In a lawsuit filed July 30, 2012, in U.S. District Court in ...
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PERSONNEL FILE: 88 Steptoe & Johnson attorneys named 'Best Lawyers'
West Virginia Record
Some of these practice areas include Appellate Law, Banking Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Corporate Law, Employment Law, Energy Law, Environmental and Environmental Litigation, Mining Law, Natural Resources Law, Oil and Gas Law, Venture ...
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Dickinson lands 18 on 'Best Lawyers' list
DesMoinesRegister.com
The list also named Dickinson as the top Iowa firm in four categories — business organizations, derivatives and futures, labor law-management and litigation-land use and zoning — and the top Des Moines firm in those categories as well as law for ...
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US unemployment aid applications decline to 365K
KCAU
A US Airways flight to Dallas has returned to Philadelphia International Airport over what airport officials say is a "law enforcement situation."More>>. A US Airways flight to Dallas has returned to Philadelphia International Airport over what airport ...
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EEOC Draft Plan Prioritizes Employer Hiring Practices
Corporate Counsel
"The EEOC will target disparate pay, job segregation, harassment, trafficking and discriminatory language policies affecting these vulnerable workers who may be unaware of their rights under the equal employment laws, or reluctant or unable to exercise ...
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Corporate Counsel
Civil rights under threat as states plan assault on anti-discrimination laws
The Guardian
When you're talking about the disabilities act or the age discrimination in employment act or any number of other pieces of legislation, when the courts find problems with those laws they say they're not as good as the voting rights act," he said. "So ...
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The Guardian
DHHR lawyers prepared to sue state
Daily Mail - Charleston
The state whistleblower law prohibits an employer from retaliating against employees in any way for reporting wrongdoing or waste. Specifically, Auvil cites wrongdoing related to the "substantial abuse, misuse, destruction or loss of (government) funds ...
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5 Tips For Dealing With The Job Shift Away From The Middle Class
TheStreet.com
The National Employment Law Project has consolidated findings from its studies and found that while there has been some economic recovery in the employment sector following the recession, the recovery changed the nature of the job market. Get alerts ...
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EU member states 'deconstructing' labour laws
PublicServiceEurope.com
Dismissal procedures have been made easier and access to employment tribunals has been restricted. In addition, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms have been imposed. A paper ... The study, covering 24 European Union member states, describes the ...
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A Few Employment Law Briefs
Main Street Business Journal
The United States House of Representatives has passed a measure prohibiting the federal government from issuing any new significant workplace regulations until the unemployment rate drops below six percent. The measure is unlikely to pass in the Senate ...
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A primer on employment discrimination
Washington Blade
Although federal law is, in many ways, deficient in protecting LGBT employees against employment discrimination, there are many interesting new developments around the country in the field of LGBT employment discrimination law. Sixteen states, plus the ...
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YCL supports Woolies
Independent Online
"We further call on Woolworths to make public their employment demographics, and hope that no white person currently employed will lose a job as a result of the company's compliance with labour laws." Trade union Solidarity announced a campaign on ...
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Independent Online
Two years into the recovery, America's good jobs deficit continues
Workday Minnesota
NEW YORK - Two years into the recovery, the majority of new jobs being added to the economy pay just $13.83 per hour or less, a new report from the National Employment Law Project shows. While the job losses during the recession were concentrated in ...
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Wounded of Revolution Assert Their Right to Employment and Health
AllAfrica.com
The law provides for the establishment of a specific programme for the employment of wounded of the Revolution and beneficiaries of the general amnesty to the tune of 30%. The First Deputy Speaker of the NCA reiterated the willingness of the Assembly ...
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Gregoire and unions: a race against the clock
Crosscut
Both candidates for governor say they support collective bargaining rights, but Democrat Jay Inslee is clearly warmer to public employees and has their endorsement. Republican Rob McKenna has said he doesn't want Gregoire to lock in agreements that get ...
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Crosscut
Good China Books
China Law Blog (blog)
East Asian Labor and Employment Law, by Ronald C. Brown, is also a great law book. Brown wrote the book, Understanding Labor and Employment Law in China, which already has a prominent place on my bookshelf and which I reviewed when it came out ...
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The Permanent Unemployment Economy
The Market Oracle
"The overarching message here is we don't just have a jobs deficit; we have a 'good jobs' deficit," said Annette Bernhardt, the report's author and a policy co-director at the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy group." ...
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The Market Oracle
Employment Law Commentary, August 2012
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
On March 30, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its Final Rule on Disparate Impact and Reasonable Factors Other than Age (RFOA). This rule became effective on April 30, 2012. The Final Rule explained the ...
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Employment Opportunity in Bankruptcy
St. Augustine Record (blog)
Especially because of the complexity and recent major changes to the law, consult competent legal counsel before you file any chapter of bankruptcy. A good attorney can review your employment status and credit as well as personal circumstances to help ...
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Employers May Avoid Hiring Smokers as Health Care Reform Kicks In
Corporate Counsel
Although companies won't be required to provide health insurance that meets the law's various requirements until 2014, a growing number of U.S. companies are starting to treat certain employees differently. Under a provision of the ACA, smokers can be ...
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Corporate Counsel
GMB seeks action as German subbie flees UK law
The Construction Index
The GMB is seeking changes to an EU Directive to ensure that its 14 members will be paid the £251,204.81 awarded to them earlier this year by an employment tribunal in Cardiff after German-based contractor Darmar fled UK jurisdiction having failed to ...
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Current Law Social Security: "Scheduled" vs "Payable" Benefits
Business Insider
Under current Social Security law future benefits are set by a formula. For a given individual this formula starts from income history but if we take total benefit payouts in the aggregate we have cost totals primarily driven by employment numbers ...
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US Structural Unemployment Trillion Dollar Question
The Market Oracle
I suggest that support for the view that America faces structural employment issues can be found in a recently released report by the U.S. National Employment Law Project (NELP). That report, which apparently looked at U.S. employment trends from 2008 ...
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Union cheers decision to name and shame
bdaily
Norman Lamb, Minister for Employment Relations said: "The law is clear. Any worker who is entitled to the minimum wage should receive it, that's why we are committed to clamping down on those who break the law. Where arrears of the minimum wage are ...
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bdaily
End-of-service dues calculated from first working day
gulfnews.com
Presently, I have submitted my resignation and asked them to settle my end-of-service dues, but the school management has refused to consider the visit visa period of my employment. I am told that my first ... Is there a clear law detailing such action ...
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Cons then, custodians of law now
IBNLive.com
Usually sidelined and rejected by society, these men are remand prisoners who have sought to change their lives by getting gainful employment once they are out of prison. As part of the prison's Intensive Reformation Centre (IRC), they are the first ...
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Some Wisconsin prison guards break away from national union
WHBL Sheboygan
He also said a new union could not bargain without recruiting other types of employees like game wardens – or getting a change in state law so they can be recognized. Beil also said the guards would be better off under AFSCME. And he said it's not a ...
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Blogs12 new results for Employment Law
 
What steps can employers take to protect themselves from ...
By Shawn Roberts
Have you every wondered what are a few reasonable actions you can take to protect your business in an employment discrimination lawsuit and from employment law claims? Below are few ideas that I have found to be sound practices for the ...
Shawn J. Roberts
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: Live! Today! I'll be on The ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Philip Miles)
We'll be covering some great issues, such as smelly employees, street drugs, and employees in Playboy. I will be joined by some of the best employment law bloggers in the game: Jon Hyman, Robin Shea, and Eric Meyer. Stephanie Thomas ...
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog
Comment - Connecticut Employment Law Blog
By Daniel Schwartz
Connecticut Employment Law Blog Insight on Labor & Employment Developments for Connecticut Businesses ... CT Employment Law Highlights. Taxes are Inevitable … Even on Judgments For Front and Back Pay in Discrimination Cases ...
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Berry farmer, labor contractor admit labor law violations | Business ...
A Whatcom County berry grower and a Ferndale labor contractor have agreed to pay fines in connection with alleged violations of federal laws on employment of children and minimum wages.
The Bellingham Herald -- Local News
Unemployment (or prior lawsuits) - Ohio Employer's Law Blog
By Jon Hyman
Last week, in Berrington v. Wal-Mart, the 6th Circuit considered the issue of whether a company could be liable for refusing to hire someone because he filed an unemployment claim. William Berrington claimed that a Kalamazoo, Michigan, ...
Ohio Employer's Law Blog
HR-inform: Flexible working, opportunity or bureaucracy? - People ...
It seems the trusted rules of supply and demand might also play a role in promoting flexible working. As a law firm advising both employers and employees, we are starting to witness the demands of a new cohort of workers: Generation Y.
Employment law from People Management
Four Christians Arguing for their Right to Religious Freedom at Work ...
By Yosie Saint-Cyr
The convention protects individuals' rights to manifest their religion outside their professional sphere. However, that does not mean that in the context of his or her employment an individual can insist on being able to manifest their beliefs in ...
Slaw
What do you do when your employees won't come to work? | First ...
By Stuart Rudner
News and Discussions on Payroll & Employment Law. decorative image. Home · About ... One of my colleagues in the Employment Law Bar often refers to employees that visit "Dr. Summer-Off" or "Dr. Winter-Off". The perception among some ...
First Reference Talks » Human Resources
EEOC Seeks Feedback on Draft Strategic Enforcement Plan ...
By Barry A. Hartstein
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released a draft of its Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP) for public comment.
Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
Lexacom face-to-face legal terminology workshops « From Words to ...
By wordstodeeds
His legal experience includes conveyancing, wills, probate, landlord and tenant, commercial contracts, employment law, criminal law, family law, professional negligence, personal injury claims and general civil litigation. He has been a ...
From Words to Deeds: translation...
What you can do to protect your business and employees from ...
By Ross Arrowsmith
In the wake of recent acts of workplace violence on the national level, Betsy Weintraub, an associate attorney with the Memphis office of labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP, lent her unique perspective as a former Assistant ...
Workplace Violence News
Workers' and trade union rights in BN-ruled Malaysia (Part 2)
By Charles Hector
In our employment laws, what was clearly envisaged was permanent employment until retirement. Accordingly, the Employment Act 1955 contains clauses that provide for gradual increases in entitlements to annual leave, sick leave and even ...
CHARLES HECTOR

Web5 new results for Employment Law
 
San Antonio Federal Court Applies Pretext Plus : San Antonio ...
A Western District of Texas decision applies the discredited.
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Employment law essentials seminar scheduled for Sept. 14 ...
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. —CalSHRM and Sierra Human Resources Association will be presenting "CA Employment Law Essentials for Business̶ (read more)
www.sierrasun.com/article/20120831/.../120839969
Recession Boosts Employment Law Demand While Other Practice ...
Recession Boosts Employment Law Demand While Other Practice Areas Decline . By Debra Cassens Weiss. 20 minutes ago. Labor and employment work is ...
www.abajournal.com/.../recession_boosts_employment_law_d...
The Jackson Lewis 2012 Women's Employment Law Conference ...
The Jackson Lewis Women's Employment Law conference provides an unparalleled opportunity to learn the latest developments in workplace law, earn ...
leglobal.org/.../the-jackson-lewis-2012-womens-employment-l...
Employment Law: Recent Developments, Evolving Trends, Best ...
Sacramento Update – Fall 20122012 has seen many dramatic changes to the employment law landscape, especially in the State of California.
www.littler.com/.../employment-law-recent-developments-evol...


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