Nov 2, 2012

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Report: Under Obama, two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants (legal and illegal)
Examiner.com
-In August 2011, during a 'Labor Rights Week' event, Labor Department Secretary Hilda Solis announced that the federal government had recently entered into agreements with several foreign governments to protect the “rights” of those working in this ...
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Examiner.com
ECFA Webinar Discusses `Three Key Employment Issues Facing Churches and ...
Student Operated Press
As Christ-centered organizations increasingly face critical employment questions in their day-to-day operations, ECFA will provide up-to-date information on employment laws in a one-hour webinar, "Three Key Employment Issues Facing Churches and ...
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Student Operated Press
Dirk Stemerman: New California employment laws
Monterey County Herald
A: Yes, there are several new laws that affect the workplace. Some of the new laws include: Religious Dress and Grooming (AB 1964). AB 1964 amends the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and states that an employer cannot discriminate ...
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Jobs Report Shows Improvement; Unhelpful To People Without Jobs
Huffington Post
Most of the jobs recovered since the official end of the Great Recession in 2009 have been low-paying, according to the National Employment Law Project. And the U.S. Labor Department has found that many of the people who are back to work after losing ...
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Jobs Report Shows Persistent Economic Growth
New York Times
A report from the National Employment Law Project, a liberal research and advocacy organization that focuses on labor issues, found that while the majority of jobs lost in the downturn were middle-income jobs, the majority of the jobs created since ...
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Oklahoma law allows workers paid time off to vote
NewsOK.com
Vic Albert, an employment law attorney with Conner & Winters, speaks about employers being required by Oklahoma law to give employees who are registered to vote time to do so. By Paula Burkes | Published: November 2, 2012 Oklahoman Comment on ...
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NLRB clamps down on internal investigation confidentiality
Business Management Daily
This matters to all employers, whether or not their employees are represented by a union. Section 7 of the NLRA protects the rights of both union and nonunion employees to engage in “concerted activities,” which includes employee discussions about ...
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Govt's employee owner plans slammed in damning legal analysis
Workplace Savings & Benefits
Law firm Linklaters has released a damning deconstruction of the government's proposed employee owners contracts in which staff would lose some employment rights in exchange for shares in the company. Lawyers at the firm said the Chancellor's proposal ...
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Workplace Savings & Benefits
State law: You can leave work to vote
North County Times
Here's his full explanation of the law: Under California election law, an employer need not give time off for an employee to vote unless the employee does not have enough time outside of working hours to vote in a statewide election. If the employee ...
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Improving Employment Picutre Masks Lousy Demographics
Forbes
A recent study by the National Employment Law Project showed that most of the jobs lost in the Great Recession were middle income, in areas related to construction and office work. However, 60% of the jobs created since then are in lower income ...
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The “I”s Have It: NLRB Says Don't Shred Those At-Will Disclaimers Just Yet
Workforce Management (blog)
According to the February 1, 2012, opinion of a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge, the first is an illegal and overly broad restraint on the right of employees to engage in protected concerted activity. According to two advice ...
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Under Obamacare, 31 Straight Months of Employment Under 59 Percent
The Weekly Standard (blog)
... since President Obama signed Obamacare into law in March 2010, we have now gone 31 consecutive months in which fewer than 59 percent of Americans have been employed. The Obama administration's own Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles such ...
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The Weekly Standard (blog)
Questions raised over employer's presidential election e-mail
Pagosa Springs Sun
PagosaSUN.com staff. Thursday, November 1, 2012. A local business owner is making regional headlines for an e-mail he sent to his employees informing them of a possible detriment to the business should President Obama be reelected. Questions have been ...
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Prop. 4: Amendment to impact collective bargaining for home health care workers
Petoskey News-Review
The proposal comes on the back of a long legal fight between the Service Employees International Union and a law signed under the Snyder administration that declared the home health care workers are not government workers. This measure would ...
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E-Verify could become mandatory
Home Channel News
“States that have adopted mandatory E-Verify and punitive measures against employers and employees for violating the nation's immigration laws have experienced economic decline and loss of tax revenues -- secondary to the exodus of employers and ...
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STATE COURT JUDGE ALLOWS DISCRIMINATION SUIT AGAINST TOWN OF ...
Rockland County Times
The town argued that plaintiff failed to comply with federal law by filing of an administrative complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) or the New York State Division on Human Rights, which is a condition required before ...
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Partisan emails sent to employees
The Tennessean
Scott Farmer, leader of Cintas, the Cincinnati-based uniform and document management company, detailed his concerns about Obama's health care law and the possibility of more taxes and regulation in an email to employees Oct. 19. Farmer, who has given ...
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TUPE service provision rules should be given literal interpretation, Court of ...
Out-Law.com
"It would be quite illegitimate to rewrite the statutory provisions in the very broad way suggested by [the employee]," he said. "This is domestic legislation and is not giving effect to EU law ... The language of [the regulation] is only consistent ...
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Mapeza Wins Zifa Case
AllAfrica.com
Mucheche said Zifa failed to bring Mapeza before a disciplinary hearing before the expiry of 14 days as required by law. "His rights as an employee enshrined in his contract of employment, the Labour Act and regulations made there-under were trampled ...
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Chiredzi man in trouble for striking Mugabe portrait over employment woes
The Zimbabwean
... contravening Section 33 (2) (b) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act after he allegedly held President Mugabe accountable for failing to secure employment despite having obtained six Ordinary Level subjects during his educational pursuits.
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Ask Candidates How They Will Vote On Equal Pay Bills -- Tribute To Lilly ...
Huffington Post
Students from the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic helped prepare the pro bono case, with support from the National Women's Law Center and the National Employment Lawyers Association. This case shows the significance of a president's choices ...
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Spying on employees a costly mistake
The Southland Times
Last updated 08:16 02/11/2012. Mary-Jane Thomas Work To Rule. NICOLE GOURLEY/Fairfax NZ. Southland Times Work To Rule columnist Mary-Jane Thomas is a partner at Preston Russell Law.
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The Southland Times
Labour activists deliver 'Bad Boss' award to east Vancouver restaurant owner
TheTyee.ca (blog)
The Employee Rights Action Network (EARN), a grassroots group sponsored by the BC Federation of Labour, took to the rainy streets of east side Vancouver on Oct. 30 to publicly deliver a "Bad Boss" award to Bon Wong, the owner of Bon's off Broadway ...
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The Autumn Statement: What's in it for you?
People Management Magazine Online
This encourages employers to offer their staff company shares in exchange for dropping employment rights. However, many employers are yet to be convinced of the incentives and worry that it may take more time and effort to implement than it is worth.
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Q & A Session – Sick Leave Balance from Prior Employment
Federal Times (blog)
Ask the Lawyer received the following question (paraphrased for easier reading and clarity) from a reader on a legal matter that might be of interest to the entire audience. Q: How can I request information on my sick leave balance from when I resigned ...
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Dan Popkey: Campaign on Idaho education laws sets fundraising record
The Idaho Statesman
The standard was set in 1986 when 54 percent of voters affirmed the Legislature's passage of right-to-work, which bars union membership as a condition of employment. Unions spent $2.8 million to repeal the law; proponents defended the measure with ...
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Labour brokers important for construction, engineering sectors, says attorney
Creamer Media's Engineering News
“The proposed amendments expand on this principle to provide for joint and several liability of the temporary employment service and the client where the temporary employee is employed contrary to any employment law,” explains Hastie. Another important ...
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Labour Appeal Court upholds Selebi's race quota plan
Politicsweb
The Labour Court stated that it followed that the extent to which the implementation of Employment Equity Plans could discriminate or adversely affect individuals was limited by law in the sense that the application of the provisions of the Employment ...
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Marijuana: Economic stimulant, or just a can of worms
Colorado Springs Business Journal
Compliance with federal law would include more frequent, regular, random drug tests for employees. At $50 to $75 a test, that could get expensive — but it will be necessary for federal defense contractors who must obey the Drug Free and Safe ...
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Blogs10 new results for Employment Law
 
One Small Step Toward Unionizing « Labor & Employment Law Forum
By aulaborlawforum
By Jennifer Girard Boeing's recently opened plant in North Charleston, South Carolina is being targeted by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to unionize its workers. But IAM faces an uphill battle.
Labor & Employment Law Forum
Do volunteers have employment rights? | Law & Religion UK
By Frank Cranmer
Broadly speaking, UK law employment law protects employees from discrimination on such grounds as disability, age, religion, marital status or sexual orientation – but it does not provide volunteers with protection from discrimination precisely ...
Law & Religion UK
Lincoln Lawyer: New employment contracts set to launch | The ...
By Lisa Elkington
Employment law has developed a great deal over the last fifty years, and as a result of this, employees are now afforded a significant level of protection from a wide range of legislation. This includes a right not to be unfairly dismissed; rights to ...
The Lincolnite
Apparent Bias « 11kbw Employment Law Blog
By James Goudie QC
Wilkie J observed (para 34) that in the employment law context and in the context of a party or representative also being a part time member or chairman of an ET or EAT, the same approach has been affirmed in Lawal v Northern Spirit [2003] ...
11kbw Employment Law Blog
7 Guidelines to Following FMLA | Learnthat.com | Free Tutorial
By David Samson
The FMLA requires employers to provide employees with job-protected unpaid leave under qualifying circumstances. But determining who the law applies to and how it is enforced can be difficult. Employers may not be aware of which specific ...
Learnthat.com
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: "At Will" Survives NLRB ...
By Philip Miles
An administrative law judge recently ruled that requiring an employee to sign the following "at will" clause is unlawful: "I further agree that the at-will employment relationship cannot be amended, modified or altered in any way." You can read ...
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog
New York Public Personnel Law: Employee served with disciplinary ...
By noreply@blogger.com (The Public Employment Law Press)
Coworkers noticed the individual looked disheveled and was laughing and crying to himself at his desk, in marked contrast to his usual demeanor. "911" was called and the employee was taken to a hospital by the first responders. Noting that ...
New York Public Personnel Law
Employees Head Back to the Polls : Minnesota Employment Law ...
By Grant T. Collins
Blog Pic - Vote Button.jpg On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, Minnesotans will head to the polls to cast their vote. As we've reminded employers in the past, Minnesota's Election Day Law, Minn. Stat. § 204C.04, gives employees the right to time ...
Minnesota Employment Law Report
NLRB Acting General Counsel Provides ... - Labor Relations Today
By Shannon R. Creasy
In both cases it was alleged that the at-will policies were overbroad and would reasonably chill employees in the exercise of their rights under the Act. The acting general counsel concluded in both cases that the employers' employment at-will ...
Labor Relations Today
Unemployment Report: U.S. Economy Adds 171,000 Jobs, Topping ...
By FlaglerLive
In a report released in August, the New York-based National Employment Law Project found that during the recession, “employment losses occurred across the board, but were concentrated in mid-wage occupations. By contrast, in the ...
FlaglerLive - Your News Service...

Web6 new results for Employment Law
 
NJ Passes Password-Protection Law for Employees and Students ...
New Jersey is the latest State to prohibit employers from requesting the passwords of employees and applicants. The N.J. Senate passed A2878 on October 25, ...
www.delawareemploymentlawblog.com/.../nj-passes-password...
Employment Law and Human Resources Cumulative Case Briefs
Read commentary in the field of labor & employment law.
www.lexisnexis.com/.../employment-law-and-human-resource...
Senior Legal Counsel — Employment Law at Accenture UK in ...
Accenture UK is hiring! View and apply for the Senior Legal Counsel — Employment Law Job at Accenture UK in London.
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Further employment law changes announced - Lexology
Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson announced yesterday that Cabinet has agreed to a number of further amendments to Part 6A of the Employment Relations Act ...
www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6f3151f1-ad11...
Zombies, unicorns, and employment law―oh, my! | HR Hero Line
by Boyd Byers My 15-year-old daughter is an avid reader. She also has an offbeat sense of humor (which she must get from her mother). So perhaps I shouldn't.
www.hrhero.com/.../zombies-unicorns-and-employment-law...
EEOC requesting EEO-5 report extension ... - Employment Law Daily
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is submitting its Elementary-Secondary Staff Information Report (EEO-5) to the Office of ...
www.employmentlawdaily.com/.../eeoc-requesting-eeo-5-repo...


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