Oct 7, 2012

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Palm oil plantation firms in PH employ, exploit child labor, says labor rights ...
allvoices
The research was supported by International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), a Washington-based non-governmental organization and the Nakahiusang Kababay-ehan sa Manat (NKM), a women's organization in Agusan del Sur. The public presentation was ...
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Business happenings: Oct. 7, 2012
Ventura County Star
Karen L. Gabler, employment law partner at LightGabler LLP, will present "Idiots Need Not Apply: Effective (and Lawful!) Hiring of California Employees" from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Courtyard Marriott Oxnard, 600 E. Esplanade Drive, Oxnard.
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Reality bites Obama (and why the jobs report does NOT help him or American ...
Knoxville News Sentinel (blog)
When Barack Obama was a student at Harvard Law School, he was never known as a particularly good debater. In class, if he ... Obama backers trumpeted the unemployment rate being back where it was in January 2009 when Obama took office. But one ...
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Labor to seize the proceeds of crime
The Canberra Times
The Attorney-General will also announce today that if re-elected in this month's election, his party will amend the Human Rights Act to enshrine the right to housing in law, establish an industrial magistrates court and enhance legal recognition of gay ...
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New law aids job seekers with criminal convictions
Burlington Times News
Tavores Vanhook, director of Men's Empowering Resource Center, organized Monday's information session to help spread word about the law. Employment is the greatest barrier ex-offenders have to reintegrating into society and not becoming repeat ...
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EI clawback hitting health workers is legal, but not fair, prof says
Victoria Times Colonist
Terry Power, who teaches business and also holds a law degree, argues the province should "do the right thing" and cover the thousands of dollars apiece that many former employees must repay to Ottawa. The clawbacks involve only workers who received ...
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California Labor Gets a New Monument But No New Rights
OpEdNews
The bill's endorsers included the New York Times and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Brown was, however, unmoved, citing "unanswered questions" of the sort that labor law opponents typically raise: "Will there be fewer jobs for domestic workers?
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New laws may help avert Kingfisher-like crisis
Hindu Business Line
While sympathising with the plight of the employees, Government officials say that they should look at the various labour laws in the country to get their unpaid wages. So till such time as a permanent solution is found, there could be many more ...
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Hindu Business Line
Unpacking employment equity, or consider boycotts carefully
Bizcommunity.com
... equity is not designed to serve as racism in reverse. Those who feel the Employment Equity Act guarantees them top posts they are not qualified for, are wrong too. The Act is intended to level the playing field and the law is clear on how it should ...
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A Debate on Religious Liberty in America (VIDEO)
Heritage.org (blog)
Drawing heavily on the Supreme Court's opinion in Employment Division v. Smith (1990), which rejected a challenge to federal drug laws as applied to a group of Native Americans who claimed that prohibiting their use of peyote during their religious ...
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Birmingham-Bloomfield People
Hometownlife.com
Randal Cole, a member of Dawda Mann legal firm, delivered a presentation before the American Society of Employers Conference Employment Law Workshop, titled "Terminations from A through Z and Minimizing the L (Lawsuits)." Cole, a Bloomfield Hills ...
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Labour laws are failing South Africans - Herman Mashaba
Moneyweb.co.za
SA's stringent labour regulations, designed to protect the rights of employees, have come under heavy criticism from a range of business' representative bodies which claim that the laws have made it too risky and expensive for employers to take on new ...
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Protest marches to demand food security law reach Jaipur
Times of India
JAIPUR: The " Rozi Roti Adhikar Yatra" (rally for right to food and employment) that was flagged off from Udaipur district on September 30, reached Jaipur on Saturday after traversing through six districts where it created awareness among people to ...
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Business People
Tulsa World
... commercial litigation, including real estate, construction and insurance litigation. Oklahoma Employment Law Letter named Sharolyn Whiting-Ralston, a labor and employment attorney and trial lawyer with McAfee & Taft, co-editor of the monthly review.
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Govt needs to send clear message about migrant work abuse - Fenton
Voxy
The abuse of migrant workers risks becoming a scandal of similar magnitude to the exploitation of foreign fishing crew if the government fails to step up its enforcement and prosecution of employers who breach our labour and minimum wage laws, Labour's ...
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Massive defense layoffs in limbo
AZ Central.com
The looming threat of automatic defense-spending cuts in January has sparked a political battle over a law that requires large employers in Arizona and elsewhere to notify workers in most cases at least 60 days before instituting massive layoffs ...
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No labour law exemption after FDI in retail: Kharge
Business Standard
Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge today assured workers that no exemption in labour laws will be given after proposed FDI in retail as well to companies in special economic zones (SEZs). The Minister was speaking as the chief guest at 88th ...
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Capriles proposes gradual changes and employment plan
El Universal
The strategy includes efforts to generate confidence through dialogue with the private sector, reduce barriers to investment, support the creation and expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises, public investment, increase the access to credit ...
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New jobs report shows growth, but in low-skill, part-time jobs
Washington Examiner
Over the summer, the liberal National Employment Law Project released a report that found that lower-wage occupations (such as food preparers, waiters and waitresses and retail salespersons) represented 21 percent of the jobs lost during the recession ...
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Proposal 4: Improving home care or union swindle?
The Morning Sun
It is backed by union groups, many in the clergy, law enforcement, and disabled persons and senior citizen advocacy groups. The 550,000 signatures placing it on the ballot were submitted by Citizens for ... Foes decried the development seven years ago ...
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Business Briefcase: Jobless must take lower-paying jobs
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Previously, to be considered suitable employment, the proposed job had to be approximately the same rate of pay and hours as the claimant's most recent work. Under the new law, claimants must decrease salary and wage demands the longer they receive ...
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Finance director's 'bondability' questioned
Blytheville Courier News
"But even if I had (known), in looking at what you just showed me, over a history in law enforcement, several of those types of things came across our desk where people had filed for unemployment and then later on it was generated from an investigation ...
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Kiwis in Aussie protest welfare reforms
New Zealand Herald
Hundreds of New Zealanders living in Australia have signed a petition against discriminatory social security laws which they say have created a Kiwi "underclass". An amendment to Australia's social security legislation ... The petition group, New ...
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$1.4 trillion in pension fights foreshadowed in RI
Wall Street Journal
The political and legal fights challenge the clout of public-sector unions and test the venerable idea that while state jobs pay less than private-sector employment, they come with the guarantee of early retirement and generous benefits. The actions ...
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Wildcat strikes up stakes in South Africa labor game
Reuters
To appease its allies in COSATU, whose 2 million members have been a powerful vote-gathering machine, the ANC has passed a raft of union-friendly labour laws that economists said have eroded competitiveness and driven up costs for employers.
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DiGiovanni headed to Ethics Review Board
San Antonio Express
District 3: Michael Ariens, law professor, St. Mary's University School of Law. District 4: August Stephen Johnson, ... 16, 2012: DiGiovanni formally accepts undisclosed terms of employment as CEO of Centro Partnership. Aug. 17, 2012: Four firms ...
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Green Valley law student wins inaugural Ngoc Tram Nguyen scholarship from ...
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
UNSW law school dean David Dixon held the function, which was attended by former High Court judge Michael Kirby. Blaxland state Labor MP Jason Clare, a former Canley Vale High School student, spoke to the guests. "This scholarship will help change ...
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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Tax issues abound for the unemployed
News-Herald.com
On the other hand, if you are a bookkeeper at a construction company and incur costs looking for a marketing position at a law firm, those would not be considered in the same occupation. Examples of items that you can deduct include employment and ...
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My mother-in-law would have loved Bermuda
Windsor Star
And unemployment is climbing in a tiny country (population 65,000 including thousands of foreign workers) with no employment insurance and little in the way of a social security net. As Richard, bartender at Margarita Grill in the capital city of ...
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Preachers' housing allowance should be struck down, group says
The Tennessean
But supporters of the clergy housing allowance say the exemption is needed to make sure clergy, who pay self-employment tax, are treated fairly by the government. The housing allowance is part of a complicated set of rules that govern ... Ministers are ...
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Flushing Rob Anders' "Bathroom Bill" Fear
rabble.ca (blog)
Human Rights In Principle. The whole premise of human rights is that all people should have equal access to employment, housing, medical and social services, and opportunities. The understanding is that people should be judged on their individual ...
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'Bring back our social realities'
Times of Malta
Human rights lawyer Therese Comodini Cachia believes the PN has distanced itself from the people in its effort to rebuild the country. She tells .... If you look at the projects it has conducted to train women and put them back in employment... If you ...
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Central Texas district may be first in state to offer benefits to same-sex couples
Austin American-Statesman
About 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies and 191 counties and cities nationwide offer domestic partner benefits, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The City of Austin, where businesses are barred from firing employees on the basis of sexual ...
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Charity's mission to rescue the shunned kids of African hell
Scottish Daily Record
Otherwise the child will not be entitled to any benefits such as schooling and medical treatment and they will have no employment rights. In the Congo, these stateless children are known as "snakes" because people believe that the embittered and ...
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Obamacare and economy: Perfect together?
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nothing gets the blood boiling more than a discussion about this law. ... Because insured firms and their employees pay their bills and some of the uninsureds' bills, there is enormous incentive to reduce health-insurance expenses as much as possible.
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Philadelphia Inquirer

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UK Pension and Employment Law Reform ... - Covington & Burling
UK PENSION AND EMPLOYMENT LAW REFORM - 2012 AND. BEYOND. Recent announcements by Business Secretary Vince Cable suggest that major ...
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Another New Wave of Employment Laws in California > Publications ...
Almost all of the new employment laws will become effective on January 1, 2013. California employers will need to take prompt action to ensure compliance, ...
www.morganlewis.com/.../LEPG_LF_NewCaliforniaLaborLa...
Social Media and Employment Law: New California Law
Social Media and Employment Law: California became the 3rd state to pass a law regulating when employers may request and access employee social media ...
windmillnetworking.com/.../employers-new-california-law-an...
Remembering Judge Kravitz | Connecticut Employment Law Blog
In the employment law arena, he crafted numerous opinions that delved into topics such as whether the Pregnancy Discrimination Act covered employees who ...
www.ctemploymentlawblog.com/.../remembering-judge-kravit...


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