Employment / Labor Law News

A Department of Labor report to lawmakers a day before Christmas stated that about 50 percent of small businesses in the CNMI have hired at least one U.S. citizen to comply with a requirement that started on Oct.

Federal prosecutors say eight people in Colorado Springs posed as veterans to collect fraudulent unemployment benefits.

Though the flames of the Jesusita Fire burned out long ago, the firefighting agencies who battled it are now under attack again, this time by an environmental group that claims the use of airplane-dropped fire retardant killed dozens of endangered steelhead trout.

All Maine 7th and 8th graders, along with half of all high school students, have laptops to use to help with homework and research.

LEWISBORO - The town entered into an agreement with the federal government this month that requires Lewisboro to renovate facilities and take others steps to finally comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

And statistics show that sometimes the lure of a front-row spot may be even stronger than the desire for this year's hottest toy.

In line with an increasing consensus among the appellate courts, the Third Circuit found in Smith v. City of Allentown , that the Supreme Court's controversial Gross decision does not eliminate the McDonnell Douglas framework in Age Discrimination in Employment Act cases.

The state Department of Labor says Idaho's population growth slowed considerably during a one-year period that ended in July, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released this week.

The agency is soliciting comments from the public and other interested parties by Feb.

The Labor Department is planning to expand its definition of fiduciary under ERISA - a move that would have implications for all financial advisers that work on retirement plans.

Workplace bullying is a serious offence that can cause emotional and mental issue to the victim.

With more than 16 years of benefits experience, Milburn is responsible for servicing a diverse range of accounts and developing new business.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Francisco on Thursday filed suit against locally based Jack in the Box franchisee Kobra Associates for allowing a manager in its Paradise store to apparently sexually harass female employees.

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Smurfit Stone announced last week it's closing its Missoula plant. Today, Governor Brian Schweitzer pledged help for laid off union workers.

BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Employee Benefits Law, Second Edition.

The recession's jobless toll is draining unemployment-compensation funds so fast that according to federal projections, 40 state programs will go broke within two years and need $90 billion in loans to keep issuing the benefit checks.

AMERICANS were shocked two years ago to read that wounded soldiers were being housed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in moldy, rotting buildings with cockroaches and mice.

Rituparna Bhuyan Posted: Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 at 2309 hrs IST Updated: Tuesday, Dec 22, 2009 at 2309 hrs IST New Delhi: The mining business in the country may be shrouded in a nefarious political economy nexus that abets illegal extraction of mineral wealth.

A crush of unemployment claims has slowed the Connecticut Department of Labor's filing system to a crawl.