Nov 19, 2012

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Walmart Asks a Judge to Block Historic Strikes
The Nation. (blog)
The National Labor Relations Board, created by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, is tasked with enforcing and interpreting private sector labor law. Walmart's charge, filed Thursday night and reported by Reuters Friday evening, sets two processes ...
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Papa John's Announces Promotion of Caroline Oyler to Senior Vice President ...
DailyFinance
Prior to joining Papa John's, Oyler was a senior attorney at the regional law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs in Louisville, Ky., where she counseled clients on all aspects of labor and employment law, and litigated employment and commercial cases in ...
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Seven things employers must provide reservists returning from military service
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A federal law, The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), is intended to give reservists and others in the U.S. Armed Forces employment protections when they return to their civilian jobs. But confusion about the federal ...
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Dish Network Ordered to Change Social Media Policy
Hollywood Reporter
But in May, the general counsel of the NLRB put out a memo warning that federal law protects the rights of employees to self-organize, join and assist in labor organizations to bargain collectively for wages and working conditions ("Section 7 rights ...
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Conservative Civil Rights Commissioner: Anti-Discrimination Efforts Will Cause ...
ThinkProgress
In the middle of her speech, Heriot addressed new guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this year that under Title VII of our civil rights laws, an employer may not deny a job to someone based on a past conviction that was ...
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Lawmakers face new pressure to extend unemployment benefits
The Hill (blog)
Groups backing an extension of unemployment benefits have launched a new round of lobbying to convince Congress to extend federal benefits to the long-term jobless. A coalition of advocates including the National Employment Law Project (NELP) held ...
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Definition of Franchise Relationship Questioned
NuWire Investor
Franchisees that are classified as employees are then entitled to certain rights, protections and remedies, including a refund of all fees paid to the franchisor. A host of conflicting court rulings has issued from the debate, which serves to validate ...
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The disability threshold
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
Accommodation is a fundamental part of Canadian employment and human rights law. If an employee has a disability that limits her ability to do the job, an employer must fully explore all possibilities of having that employee continue working with ...
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Germany: Management Labour & Employment
Who's Who Legal
He advises on collective and individual employment law issues and works with management boards and executives. Former managing partner of the firm Martin Diller received numerous votes and has a "great reputation" as a pension expert. Burkard Göpfert ...
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Protests Backed by Union Get Wal-Mart's Attention
CNBC.com
William B. Gould IV, a Stanford University law professor and chairman of the labor board under President Bill Clinton, said the protests were more about employment conditions and retaliation against employees than a unionization drive. "I don't see ...
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Steakhouse in New York Settles Male-over-Male Harassment Charges
The National Law Journal
An upscale New York City steakhouse has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle charges by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that managers sexually harassed 22 male waiters over an almost eight-year period. The EEOC's case against Sparks ...
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Can We Require Our Workers to Speak English?
Human Resource Executive Online
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") prohibits employers from discriminating against an individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, as well as limiting, segregating, or classifying an employee "in any ...
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Law Firms Confront Issue of Underutilized Partners; 15 Percent Plan Cuts in ...
ABA Journal
A survey of 115 mostly large law firms has found partner billable hours are on the decline, and some lawyers will find themselves without employment as a result. Fifteen percent of the firms surveyed by Wells Fargo Private Bank plan to cut partners in ...
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Worker broke no-violence rule? That's grounds for discharge
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Ohio Employment Law on November 19, 2012 10:30am in Firing,Human Resources. As long as you treat all employees equally, courts won't second-guess your decision to fire someone for violating an anti-violence policy. Recent case: ...
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Nevsun Strengthens Executive Management Team To Support Growth
capitaleritrea news
Mr. Giuffre, B.A., LLB., was a founding partner of Axium Law Corporation, a Vancouver based law firm and was previously a partner of Gowlings, a full service national law firm. He has over twenty-five years of combined business and legal experience and ...
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Unions fight Campbell Newman's industrial relations changes
The Australian
Since then, the state system has only dealt with the rights and conditions of Queensland's 192,000 public servants, as well as local government employees. Together Union barrister Michael Amerena told the court the Newman government's changes ...
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UI News: Labor expert on what to expect post-election
Newsroom America
Editor's note: Robert Bruno is a professor of labor and employment relations at the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. In an interview with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora, Bruno, also the director of the Labor Education ...
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Part-time re-employment
Federal Times (blog)
A. There is a new law, but it doesn't apply to someone retiring from one agency and moving to another. It only applies to an employee who retires and continues as a part-timer in their same job, generally in a mentoring capacity. Since it is an agency ...
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Ex-NDA employees demand sh100m over discriminationPublish Date: Nov 19 ...
New Vision
... the law on labour rights, the defendants practiced institutionalised discrimination against the plaintiffs by not allowing them to earn gratuity, loans, advances, transport allowance, and medical care, which benefits were given to other employees ...
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Public feedback sought on Employment Act review
AsiaOne
The areas are: Extending coverage of the Employment Act, improving employment standards and benefits for employees, and improving flexibility for employers. The Act is Singapore's main labour law that sets out the basic employment terms and shapes the ...
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AsiaOne
Greencore employees win pay cuts claim
British Baker
Jennie Formby, Unite national officer, said: "Unite was not going to allow Greencore to break the law, attack union rights and the terms and conditions of the lowest paid workers in society. Many of these workers had to survive on poverty wages since ...
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Bowling Green, Berea targeted for gay-rights protections
The Courier-Journal
The intent is to propose in several Kentucky cities in November local so-called fairness ordinances that would prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations based on someone's actual or perceived sexual orientation and ...
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LINDSEY NOVAK: What if the bosses make up the rules as they go along?
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Jac Cotiguala, labor and employment law partner of Jac A. Cotiguala & Associates (Chicago) and former chair of the Wage and Hour Committee of the National Employee Lawyers Association, says it seems this employer wants what it wants regardless of ...
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Former In-House Lawyer Disbarred a Second Time--This Time Not in Secret
The National Law Journal
Last week's opinion found: "Respondent continued to work as an in-house counsel for Verizon, thereby falsely representing himself to be an attorney duly licensed and authorized to engage in the practice of law, until he was finally terminated in ...
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Prue Taylor's case due to be heard
Stuff.co.nz
Her lawyer, employment law specialist Richard Harrison, said the public hearing was the first round to decide what to do in the interim before a substantive hearing. The hearing tomorrow would not discuss the merits of the case, but would look at the ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Highlighting Our Heroes in the Fight for Transgender Rights
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
The following people have helped make our transgender rights work possible in the areas of employment discrimination and identification documents. The LGBT community has seen astounding progress, but a great deal of work still needs to be done to ...
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A Second Obama Administration's Impact On Labor And Employment Issues
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
President Obama's appointments of pro-union members to the NLRB swung the political balance of the Board strongly in favor of organized labor. This has begun to be reflected in rulings that significantly expand employee rights and place limits on ...
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MOM invites public feedback on review of Employment Act
TODAYonline
The EA is Singapore's main labour law that sets out the basic employment terms and shapes the responsibilities and relationships between employers and employees. The EA has been in place since 1968, and the last major review was conducted in 2008, ...
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Definition of Employer – Employee Under The Illinois Workers Compensation ...
JD Supra (press release)
... pay them as a 1099 employee without paying taxes, and tell their employees that they are independent contractors and not entitled to employee benefits. However, unlike other areas of the law, the designation in a contract that a petitioner is an ...
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NLRB Pledges to Act Swiftly on Wal-Mart Dispute
Wall Street Journal
The charge was filed with the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency that oversees union elections and referees disputes between private-sector employers and employees. NLRB spokeswoman Nancy Cleeland said Monday that by law, this type ...
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Risks in Misclassifying Independent Contractors versus Employees
JD Supra (press release)
This article addresses potential risks and penalties for California employers for mis-classifying workers as independent contractors as opposed to employees under California law. 1 Using Independent Contractors in California If you are using ...
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Both Employer and Fired Worker Cite Employee Manual to Make Arguments in ...
Human Resources Journal
Under New Mexico law, employment is considered "at-will" if no explicit terms have been stated. At-will employment allows an employer to fire a worker at any time and for any reason. This condition does have exceptions, and the plaintiff in this case ...
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Human Resources Journal
Vehicle Underwriters Accuse US Bank Of OT Pay Violations
Law360 (subscription)
Law360, New York (November 19, 2012, 5:22 PM ET) -- U.S. Bank NA was hit with a putative collective action in Arizona federal court Friday, alleging it violated labor laws by failing to pay overtime to its vehicle insurance underwriters and not keeping ...
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Sustainability by the Numbers: The Growing Reality of the Green Economy
Huffington Post (blog)
The structure of U.S. environmental law is based on the assumption that economic development pollutes, and that the goal of environmental policy was to clean up or reduce pollution after it was created. The sustainability perspective is quite different ...
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Appeals Court Bars Michigan Ban on College Affirmative Action
The National Law Journal
A Michigan law banning race-conscious admissions policies at the state's universities is unconstitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled. Judge Guy Cole Jr. wrote the majority opinion for a split en banc court in the ...
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Blogs9 new results for Employment Law
 
Get Ready for New California Employment Laws | Bryan Cave ...
By Bryan Cave
The California State Legislature had a busy year amending existing employment laws or adding new...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
Civil Litigation: What Labor Law Section 193 amendments mean ...
By Jennifer A. Shoemaker
New York Labor Law § 193 and New York Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations Title 12, § 195.1 govern employer deductions from employee's wages. Until now, § 193 generally prohibited employers from making deductions from ...
NY Daily Record
Suspect employee has relapsed into drug use? Never say so ...
By The HR Specialist: North Carolina Employment Law
Suspect employee has relapsed into drug use? Never say so without proof. by The HR Specialist: North Carolina Employment Law on November 19, 2012 10:00am in Firing,Human Resources. Under the ADA, it's illegal for employers to ...
Business Management Daily
Will Hostess Mediation Lead to a Sweet Deal? - Employment Law ...
By Deanne Katz, Esq.
Stay calm Twinkie fans. A court-ordered Hostess mediation with union reps may save the company after all, Reuters reports. News that the bankrupt iconic bakery company was planning to liquidate spread quickly on Friday. But on Monday, a ...
Law and Daily Life
Employment misclassification costs « Bankrate, Inc.
By Kay Bell
Worker misclassification can lead to tax and labor law violations and cost wrongly categorized workers tax money and benefits. ... And while that's not against the law, it is associated with labor and tax law violations. Just last week, federal ...
Bankrate.com
New York Public Personnel Law: A school district may sue its board ...
By The Public Employment Law Press
The Public Employment Law Press: This Lawblog is prepared by NYPPL Consultants. NYPPL Consultants assist public employers, public employee organizations and attorneys in matters involving New York State public personnel law.
New York Public Personnel Law
More Than 3,000 Whistleblower Claims Were Filed Under Dodd ...
By Ilyse Schuman
In its first full year of implementation, the whistleblower incentive program established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection.
Washington D.C. Employment Law Update
Tenth Circuit: ALJ's Credibility Determinations Deserve Great Weight
By Ellen Buckley
Connecting You to the Latest in Colorado Law :: Continuing Legal Education in Colorado. Home · Updates ... version of this webpage PDF. Filed Under: Case Law Tagged With: 10th Circuit, employment law, labor law, mining law, mitigation ...
CBA-CLE Legal Connection
Commissioner Pushes Non-Discrimination Law In Royal Oak « CBS ...
By cstrawser1
Rasor, who has also pushed for marijuana legalization efforts, doesn't think federal non-discrimination laws are enough. Federal laws apply to minority groups and cover housing and employment. "I'm a landlord, I could put a sign in front of ...
CBS Detroit

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