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By Diane Pietraszewski The vast majority of all equal employment opportunity lawsuits are filed by individual employees or job applicants. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) may file cases on behalf of individuals, but it rarely does so because of limited resources. To get more “bang” for its litigation bucks, the EEOC is increasingly turning […]
Now that the Supreme Court has weighed in, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the law! The countdown is on until 2018 when the final provisions take effect. Time to start your annual compliance planning. Here, for example, is a (brief?) summary of what you and your organization will face in 2013: Health Insurance Administration […]
Once upon a time a resume touting a prestigious university would automatically land at the top of a recruiter’s stack. Conventional wisdom dictated that a degree from an esteemed school signaled the best-educated, highest-potential candidates. But now a desire for educational diversity may be changing the old way of thinking. Professional services firm Deloitte announced […]
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A California Court of Appeal is currently reviewing an important ruling by a lower court affecting eligibility of state contract workers to receive CalPERS benefits. Employees of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California brought a class action lawsuit contending that agencies bound by the Public Employees’ Retirement Law must enroll all employees for CalPERS […]
Several miners were fired after a video of them dancing in underground tunnels, some shirtless, came to the attention of the employer. Up to 15 workers at the Agnew gold mine in Gold Fields, Australia, have been terminated and banned for life from Barminco projects after they filmed themselves doing their own rendition of the […]
The U.S. Supreme Court is now weighing arguments in a case with important ramifications for the many employers that have been accused of retaliation — or who fear being accused of retaliation — when they discipline or fire an employee. For workers, the case raises questions about the strength and scope of Title VII’s anti-retaliation […]
As a result of the attention surrounding the ongoing Ebola outbreak, many employers are wondering how to handle situations involving communicable disease. Not much medical testing of employees is allowed. If however, a pandemic is widespread and is a direct threat, public health authorities say employers can monitor closely for symptoms and illness. Employers can […]
Biggest Failure The biggest problem with FMLA is frontline supervisors who have heard clear notice of the need for FMLA, but who didn’t understand what it meant or what to do, says Attorney Tam Yelling Training is, of course, the answer. Supervisors and managers need to be trained that requesters don’t need to use any […]
Today the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) hosted a live webcast interview with Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. During the webcast, both parties made the case for the necessity of comprehensive immigration reform, decrying individual state movements such as the controversial immigration law in Arizona as a means for racial profiling […]