7 days ago

Submitted by Jenniferweil: About half of the employment agencies licensed in New York City have used illegal or deceptive practices, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in an announcement on Wednesday. In the most egregious cases, agencies have systematically swindled the city’s most vulnerable job seekers, the mayor said. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: The University of Phoenix will pay nearly $1.9 million to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.The EEOC alleged that the private university discriminated against enrollment counselors who were not associated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: Coming on the heels of the discovery that veterans' benefit claims forms may have been shredded in regional offices nationwide, two veterans' organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs. They're attacking a related and, they say, similarly egregious problem: the time it takes for the VA to (Read More)

Nov 12, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: News from Harrisburg, Pa., is that after hiring Rastafarian Nieland Bynoe as a driver, UPS Freight fired him for wearing to work a beard and dreadlocks. It was company policy, and Bynoe would have to comply with its grooming requirements, the company told him in an orientation meeting last year.But Bynoe refused to comply, (Read More)

Nov 12, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: (St. Louis Post-Dispatch - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --When Missouri Sen. John Loudon and his wife, Gina, decided to adopt their third child, they knew three things: They wanted a little boy, they would name him Samuel and he would have Down syndrome."This was always part of the plan," said Gina Lou (Read More)

Nov 12, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: Last Wednesday, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, affirmed an award of unemployment benefits to an employee whose employer had changed her work hours to interfere with her child care arrangements.The employee worked from 8:30am to 4:30pm, but had difficulty getting to work on time every day because of t (Read More)

Nov 10, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld the termination of an Indiana auto parts factory worker for abusing her medical leave. An off-duty police officer hired by Raybestos Products had observed Diana Vail working for her husband’s lawn-mowing business while she was on leave and, the court said, the informat (Read More)

Nov 10, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: State park officials have found no legal justification for almost half of the 50,000 passes that allow disabled residents - including hundreds of LIRR retirees - to free park access, golf and camping.The state law that set up the Access Pass program in the late 1970s makes no mention of Long Island Rail Road workers who rec (Read More)

Nov 09, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: The Supreme Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, yesterday reversed a decision that had denied unemployment benefits to a former employee of a grocery store located in the Princeton area. The employee’s positions with the store were variously located in the sub shop, photo department, personnel department, and on the me (Read More)

Nov 09, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: When Casey Martin sued the PGA Tour for the use of a cart under the Americans with Disabilities Act, there were those who suggested that letting a single golfer, even a disabled one, use a cart in competition would open the floodgates.AdvertisementAny golfer with any ailment might apply for and get a cart, the critics said (Read More)

Nov 07, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: The NJ Family Leave Act (FLA) applies to employers who employ 50 or more employees for 20 or more weeks in the current or preceding year, including the State of New Jersey. Affected employers must post “conspicuous notice” of employees’ rights and obligations under the FLA. (Read More)

Nov 07, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: In a stroke of self-satire, Pentagon officials tried to block Stars and Stripes — the military’s respected independent newspaper — from covering the troops’ plain and honest reactions to the election night news about their new commander in chief. The Department of Defense once again made news by smothering news. (Read More)

Nov 07, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: As the world prepares for a new United States president and a Barack Obama administration, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) looks forward to continuing work on the many important flight attendant issues that have been suppressed throughout the previous administration."For far too long, corporate interests (Read More)

Nov 07, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: The Texas lawsuit alleges that ADT failed to pay employees for overtime and therefore violated the Federal Labor Standards Act. The lead attorney, David Showalter of Richmond, Texas, filed a proposed class-action suit on behalf of a group of ADT service and maintenance technicians and installers, including Bryan Champion, R (Read More)

Nov 07, 2008

Submitted by Jenniferweil: New York State’s parks officials have determined that there is no legal justification for hundreds of retired Long Island Rail Road workers on disability to be playing golf free in state-owned parks with passes intended for severely disabled people. (Read More)

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