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washingtonpost.com - Editorials:
ONE OUT OF 10 American workers will not have a job for which to express gratitude this Thanksgiving. If you add what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls "marginally attached workers" and those who want to work full time but can find only part-time jobs, then the true employment picture looks even bleaker: 17.5 percent of t (Read More)
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Huffington Post:
DENVER — Colorado unemployment continues to decline with the latest figures showing the seasonally adjusted rate for October at 6.9 percent.That's a slight decline from September, when the rate was at 7 percent. It was 7.3 percent in August. Colorado's unemployment rate last October was 5.3 percent. The figures relea (Read More)
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New York Times:
A look at recent employment data indicates that boomers have persevered in these hard times, and are less likely to grow discouraged and quit the job hunt than younger workers are.
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A federal public defender, thwarted in an earlier effort to enroll his same-sex spouse in his employer’s health coverage plan, has won a ruling requiring his employer to pay him for the costs of obtaining outside insurance. The Los Angeles Times calls the ruling by Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap (Read More)
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Workplace Prof Blog:
David Yamada (Suffolk), leader of the anti-bullying movement, has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal) Workplace Bullying and American Employment Law: A Ten-Year Progress Report and Assessment. Here's the abstract: This article details... (Read More)
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A federal public defender, thwarted in an earlier effort to enroll his same-sex spouse in his employer’s health coverage plan, has won a ruling requiring his employer to pay him for the costs of obtaining outside insurance. The Los Angeles Times calls the ruling by Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. (Read More)
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ABA Journal Top Stories:
Some courts are siding with employees when companies monitor their personal e-mails without adequate warning. Companies claim they have the right to all keystrokes on company property, allowing them to delve into employees’ personal e-mail sent from work. But some judges are now siding with employees who had a reasonable ex (Read More)
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New York Times:
Mr. Cotton was a labor lawyer whose negotiating savvy helped improve the wages and conditions of tens of thousands of meatpacking workers.
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The EEOC is holding listening sessions on its proposed rules interpreting the ADA Amendments Act. BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has a story on the first session. As is no surprise, disability groups are happy and employer groups believe... (Read More)
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Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — The Associated Press laid off an undisclosed number of news employees Tuesday as part of the cooperative's yearlong plan to cut worldwide payroll expenses by 10 percent.AP spokesman Paul Colford refused to specify how many jobs were eliminated Tuesday or in previous months from the news staff and other department (Read More)
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New York Times:
The bill, which would raise pay rates for a wide variety of workers at publicly financed projects, has been applauded by unions and opposed by developers.
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New York Times:
A $310 million proposal to turn a long-vacant property into a shopping center faces opposition over how much money workers there would be paid.
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New York Times:
The government has been on the side of elites in recent decades. The president’s employment summit will provide an opportunity to show whether that has changed.
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Workplace Prof Blog:
Ted St. Antoine (Michigan) will speak next Thursday (November 19) at Case Western Reserve University School of Law on the topic Mandatory Employment Arbitration: Keeping It Fair, Keeping It Lawful. He'll be giving the Rush McKnight Labor Law Lecture presented... (Read More)
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What’s happening to union membership in 2009? The year is not complete, but labor economists Barry Hirsch (Georgia State) and David Macpherson (Florida State), who compile union membership statistics at UnionStats.com, provide new union membership and density estimates based on... (Read More)
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