Oct 28, 2012

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Court exempts union bosses from laws against identity theft
Washington Examiner
All the employees whose names and personal information were posted had exercised their freedom under North Carolina's Right to Work law to resign from membership in a labor union -- the Communications Workers of America, or CWA -- and cease paying ...
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Fired employee rejects Wells Fargo's job offer
The News Journal
Richard Eggers holds a letter of support from a former co-worker at Wells Fargo. Eggers was fired from the bank in July for putting a cardboard cutout of a dime in a laundry machine in 1963 / GANNETT ...
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Controversial Mexico labor overhaul bill won't be fast-tracked
Fox News
The legislation also would allow employers to hire workers for three-month trial periods and dismiss them if they are not up to the job, a workplace arrangement not contemplated by current labor law, and pay hourly wages. Last month, Mexican academic ...
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Local employers see debt time bomb
BlueRidgeNow.com
Employers are required by law to pay off North Carolina's $2.5 billion unemployment insurance debt to the federal government, and state lawmakers and business leaders are scrambling for solutions to keep the repayment plan from crippling the economy.
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Jacqueline Asher Kelly
Hometownlife.com
Professional Background: Practicing attorney for 20 years, specializing in pension and health benefits, employment and labor law; former visiting associate professor of law and legal research and writing instructor. Community Involvement: Zoning Board ...
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Human Rights groups welcome new Chinese mental health law
eGov monitor
Under the new legislation, individuals and institutions would have a statutory responsibility to protect the privacy of mentally ill patients including names, addresses as well as employment information, official Chinese news agency Xinhua has reported.
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Fay Vincent: Unpaid Social Security taxes for household employees often a sad ...
TCPalm
... number of people — usually women — who have worked for years for those like the senior partner in my old law firm only to discover when they seek to collect their old age pension that there is no earnings record of their employment, so they are ...
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Labor leader to TheMarker: I'm in favor of free market and competition, but ...
Haaretz
When asked whether she would scrap the law encouraging capital investment, she replied: "No way - I'm very much in favor of the capital encouragement law, but we clearly have a distorted tax system." Yacimovich cited, for example, the value added tax, ...
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Haaretz
Prostitution Soars Amid Weak Laws
AllAfrica.com
He suggests that the best way to get rid of the problem is by vetting employment bureaus, which he says have strong networks all over. He also urges the Government to enact appropriate laws. "Sometimes the offenders are charged under the Penal Code Act ...
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Local firm to present wine law seminar
The Wenatchee World Online
OMW Attorneys Emily Gant and Paul Kube will present the wine law seminar. The firm often advises companies in the alcoholic beverage industry on regulatory compliance, business and tax issues, employment law and litigation. Wenatchee Wine Country is ...
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The Case for Palestinian Workers Re-entering Israel's Labor Force
Al-Monitor
The [Israeli labor rights organization] Kav LaOved (Worker's Hotline) released last week [the third week of October] survey findings showing that Palestinian workers employed in Israel are underprivileged in terms of both wages and work conditions ...
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Al-Monitor
With election upon us, do your homework
Lansing State Journal
This proposal would grant public and private employees the constitutional right to organize and collectively bargain through unions. It also would override laws that regulate hours and conditions of employment to the extent that those laws conflict ...
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Extended jobless benefits set to expire Dec. 29
Winston-Salem Journal
According to the National Employment Law Project, more than 2 million Americans will have their federal extended unemployment benefits expire during the holiday season. Nationally, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 4.8 million ...
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Former Human Rights Referee Takes on the 60s in a Work of Poetry
Housatonic Times
As a referee, he presided over full administrative public hearings rendering rulings and final written decisions in the areas of discrimination in employment, housing, credit, public accommodations and illegal retaliation against public sector ...
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Goodell Announces Support For Legislative Proposals
Jamestown Post Journal
Unemployment Reform. Goodell introduced legislation to reduce the cost of unemployment insurance while helping unemployed workers. Under current law, a person on unemployment loses their entire daily benefit if they accept any part-time employment for ...
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Who's 'On the Move' in the Cleveland area?
Plain Dealer
Schmeltzer will practice in the area of complex litigation and appellate practice, personal injury and wrongful death, medical and other professional malpractice, insurance law, business litigation, employment litigation and workers' compensation.
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Calif Latino grocery chain fights immigration woes
NewsWest9.com
In the past three years, the UFCW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters have won two court decisions against Mi Pueblo for violating labor laws. Both cases are under appeal. The union is encouraging people not to shop at Mi Pueblo until the ...
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A longer statement from AG candidate Chris Henry
Statesman Journal (blog)
I see this as a two-fold imperative; being, both, a "states' rights" issue and upholding "freedom of assembly." As such, card check will democratize the workplace, so that workers have a voice in their employment AND, to this end, I will investigate ...
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Rata Viruvo to protect Lankan expats in dire straits - Minister Dilan Perera
Sunday Observer
We had a three day workshop in Amman in Jordan to ascertain their problems. We also advised the officials that they should not only handle the welfare of the workers, but promote more employment opportunities not in the housemaid category but mostly in ...
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Sunday Observer
IRS Expands Offer in Compromise Plan
Melodika.net (press release)
FLSA is designed to ensure workers receive proper compensation, covering a variety of labor protection rights including minimum wages and overtime pay. In many cases, overtime pay is required if a worker puts in more than forty hours in one work week.
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Despite progress, study finds gender pay gap persists
The Oshkosh Northwestern
"Many times, younger women are shocked to learn that they are not on equal footing with men," says Fatima Goss Graves, vice president for education and employment at the National Women's Law Center. Negotiating a salary can make a difference, but ...
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Insider reveals 'savaging' by Armstrong
Stuff.co.nz
"Being an employer now and dealing with New Zealand employment law, if I treated someone the way he treated me in that position, he would have been hauled into reviews under the Employment Commission countless times." Armstrong, at the height of his ...
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SJ-R survey of 13th Congressional District candidates
The State Journal-Register
Once our immigration targets are set, we need to enforce the rule of law on both employers and employees. It behooves us all to be a nation that respects the law, and we have had inexcusably lax enforcement of our existing immigration laws. Once the ...
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Companies operated a blacklist of union activists ... they took people's ...
Herald Scotland
EMPLOYMENT law expert Keith Ewing, professor of public law at King's College London, said: "It is a secret, destructive dirty business and blacklisters don't operate in public, they don't conduct their business where they can be seen. "We don't know ...
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Herald Scotland
Q&A: Shannon Barry says police need better domestic violence training
77Square.com
It was on that day that Brown Deer resident Radcliffe Haughton, 45, went to his estranged wife Zina's place of employment, Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield, and shot and killed her and two co-workers before turning the gun on himself. In the ensuing ...
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Workplace bias case heads to high court
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A case that could have widespread implications for both Hawaii businesses and their workers in employment discrimination disputes will be heard by the Hawaii Supreme Court next month. Hawaii law is clear that employers can be held liable for ...
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Gay in the Gold Dome
The GA Voice
In the House, Bell is a top co-sponsor of the Fair Employment Practices Act. Her long career in public service includes working for the Health Initiative and as community educator for Lambda Legal. Bell faces Republican challenger Earl Cooper on Nov. 6.
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The GA Voice
Rizana case: AG to visit Saudi Arabia
Sunday Observer
Foreign Employment and Welfare Minister Dilan Perera said Attorney-General Palitha Fernando will visit Saudi Arabia soon to meet Saudi Arabian authorities to see what more can be done to obtain a pardon for Rizana Nafeek. "When President Mahinda ...
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Sunday Observer
ELA's Higher Education Council Joins Amicus Brief With the American Council ...
Melodika.net (press release)
More than a dozen firms from the Higher Education Council of the Employment Law Alliance joined the American Council on Education, the American Association of Community Colleges, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the ...
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Political Report to the United Front Against Austerity
Hamsayeh.Net
Naturally, such a low-wage sweatshop economy with no public education, declining rates of college attendance, no child labor laws, and a general atmosphere of Dickensian cruelty will not be able to compete with China and others. But the thoroughly ...
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Hamsayeh.Net
OFWs jailed for condom, porn video
Sun.Star
"This case depicts a clear violation of migrant's right to privacy and to secure himself as guaranteed in the UN Convention on the Protection of Migrants and Members of their Families and of the International Human Rights Law (IHL)," he said in a ...
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No more peanuts as compensation
Zambia Daily Mail
DM says her workmate was not aware that his employer was required by law to report the accident to the Workers Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) within hours of its occurrence. In fact the company wanted to cover up the accident until it was ...
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Zambia Daily Mail
For District 3: Ed Enoch
The Augusta Chronicle
He spent 10 years in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service, before earning degrees in economics and law. As a practicing lawyer with his own firm, as his bio notes, he's helped Augustans "navigate the often tricky waters of contract and employment law ...
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Two candidates vie for Circuit Court position
pharostribune.com
He has also worked as an administrative law judge for the Indiana Employment Security Office and as the staff counsel for First National Bank of Logansport. Cox is a graduate of the Indiana Judicial College and National Judicial College, a 1976 ...
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OHIO LEGISLATURE RACES Candidates in Trumbull County districts
Youngstown Vindicator
Priority: Reduce regulations that harm jobs, businesses, and local communities; reduce taxes for residents, workers, and businesses; increase educational opportunities for new and re-entry employees so residents and families can stay in northeast Ohio ...
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The International Endorses President Obama for Re-Election in 2012
The International
The Obama camp has tried to project an image of the president as a competent agent of crisis mitigation – especially in terms of employment figures – in the aftermath of the 2008 housing bubble burst. Meanwhile, Romney's opposing ... In the case that ...
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The International
Bind On!
American Thinker
So, the Lily Ledbetter Act could possibly work against the top priority of securing employment in the first place. Could the Lily Ledbetter Act be one of those infamous laws, passed primarily by Democrats, purportedly with good intentions, that yield ...
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Was Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit fired or did he resign?
Zee News
Michael Kaufman, managing partner at Kaufman Dolowich Voluck & Gonzo, which has a specialty in employment law on behalf of companies, agrees that barring some major offense, chief executives should be given the same opportunities as every other ...
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New Parliamentary Committee Could Harm Workers' Right to ...
By Yo
The members of the Forum for Enforcement of Labor Rights – the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Itach – Women Lawyers for Social Justice, Kav LaOved, the Workers' Rights Clinic at the Tel Aviv University Faculty for Law, and the ...
Association for Civil Rights...
BREAKING: Bell Sued By Longtime Employee : The Mudflats
By Jeanne Devon
... by a former employee of his engineering firm F.R. Bell & Associates, Inc. Edward Biggs of Wasilla is seeking restitution for discrimination and retaliation in violation of the Alaska Workers' Compansation Act; interference with his rights under ...
The Mudflats
Court: Pregnancy plus slipshod discharge investigation doesn't ...
By The HR Specialist: North Carolina Employment Law
A federal court has refused to expand the ways an employee can sue for alleged pregnancy discrimination. Had the female plaintiff ... by The HR Specialist: North Carolina Employment Law on October 27, 2012 6:00pm in Human Resources ...
Business Management Daily

Web4 new results for Employment Law
 
What Do DOMA Decisions Mean for Employment Law? - Topix
As courts strike down laws that ban same-sex marriage, lawyers wonder if employers will change benefits to be more inclusive for lesbian and gay employees, ...
www.topix.com/forum/news/.../T9L4734VPM9MLI69A
Employment Attorneys, Law Firms Michigan | Employment Lawyers MI
Find Employment lawyers and law firms in Michigan (MI) listed by city with firm overview, contact, services, website, social networks, articles, videos and more.
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Plaintiff's counsel answers FAQ's on election talk in the workplace ...
Our country is in the midst of a heated campaign season, and political discussion and strong opinions inevitably arise in our daily discourse, notes Scott.
www.employmentlawdaily.com/.../plaintiffs-counsel-answers-f...
Florida employment discrimination complaints jumped in 2011 ...
Employment Law BLOG · Sexual Harassment BLOG ... On behalf of Law Office of William M. Julien, P.A. posted in Employee Rights on Saturday, October 27, ...
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