Employment / Labor Law News

Faltering steps towards openness in the public service have been taken over the years, yet there is still so much farther to go.

President Obama has nominated Republican Victoria Lipnic to the EEOC. Lipnic has an extensive background in employment law, serving as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards in the prior administration--she was responsible for administration and enforcement of the FMLA and FSLA, among other things--and counsel for the House Committee ...

A former employee of Sperry Public Schools has sued the district alleging she was forced to serve playground duty in the sun although she has skin cancer.

As more work enters cyberspace, takes place in virtual worlds, and collapses traditional nation-state barriers, we are entering a new era of a oevirtual work.a In this article, I use a oevirtual worka as an umbrella term to encompass work in virtual worlds, crowdsourcing, clickworking, even sweeping in, to some degree, the commonplace telecommuting ...

Unemployed Rhode Islanders can now collect jobless benefits for up to 99 weeks. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law that gives 14 more weeks of benefits to the unemployed, and an additional 20 weeks of benefits to people out of work in high-unemployment states like Rhode Island.

Over on Concurring Opinions , friend of the blog Mike Zimmer has an interesting commentary on the recent Gross Supreme Court decision, which deals with the shifting of burdens of proof in ADEA cases.

MOUNT PLEASANT - Pleasant Places, Inc. landscaping faces a $24,000 state fine for alleged violations of the South Carolina Illegal Immigration Reform Act, officials said Thursday.

NEW CARLISLE a *The Indiana Department of Labor has issued a fine in the death of a man working with a wood chipper.

A New Bedford seafood plant, where a worker was crushed to death by an ice machine last spring, is facing nearly $67,000 in proposed fines after federal safety inspectors cited the company for 23 alleged violations of workplace safety standards.

A single mother of three said she was forced to wear diapers to her job at a construction site because the company didn't provide a way for women to use the restroom, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Woking, Surrey: 4th November, 2009 - Farmers' Weekly has reported[1] that two back up tapes, containing thousands of farmers' bank details, have been lost by the Rural Payments Agency .

PENDLETON, Ore. a ' Schiemer Farms of Nyssa, Ore., will pay $14,500 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , the agency announced today.

Dozens of workers in a southern Illinois coal mine are hoping an administrative law judge gives their mine the go-ahead to resume full operations.

HELENA - The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off worker's compensation payments when the injured or disabled party is of retirement age.

The American Bar Association Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel present the 19th Annual National Institute on ERISA Litigation, November 16-17, 2009, at The Millennium Knickerbocker, Chicago, IL .

The central government has announced a scheme providing financial rewards to whistleblowers who risk providing information about those involved in the spurious drugs racket.

Labor Commissioner Jim Neeley today announced the state of Tennessee has received $12,055,644 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to enhance the state's Trade Adjustment Assistance Program.

At the pace of everyday life, the bumps taken by people like Jacobi Harvey are easy to miss.

Montanaa s insurance commissionera s practice of disapproving any insurance contract if it contains a a oediscretionary clausea isna t preempted by ERISA, the 9th Circuit has ruled.

The Lawry's restaurant chain agreed Monday to pay more than $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed it barred men from waiting tables at its high-end steakhouses.