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The federal government has decided to abandon a Bush administration plan that would have permitted mutual fund companies and brokerage firms to offer investment advice to 401 customers.

The first federal anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years takes effect today, prohibiting employers from hiring, firing or determining promotions based on genetic makeup.

My column today provides context for the SEIU bullying of Boy Scouts in Allentown, Pa.

The 8,000 Kentuckians due a 20-week extension of unemployment compensation won't see their checks for at least a month, while a similar number of Hoosiers could start getting their payments as early as next week.

About one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly to renew existing federally paid extensions, according to a new report and legislators and state officials.

The Department of Labor is providing $4 million for a study of displaced autoworkers in hopes of identifying opportunities to retrain them for work in alternative energy fields.

Washington's home-weatherization efforts have fallen at least two months behind goals set under the federal stimulus aid, the result of a mix-up over conflicting wage requirements under federal and state laws.

The Washington Times, responding to a federal complaint by its former editorial page editor, says that the newspaper 'does not discriminate and does not tolerate discrimination.'

In a note to readers in Thursday's editions, Jonathan Slevin, the acting president and publisher, also says that despite changes to be unveiled in the coming weeks and months, 'we will continue to maintain the same spirited reporting on our news pages and online, and a robust alternative voice on our opinion pages.'

Pacific Northwest states are getting more than $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to encourage green jobs.

Additional unemployment benefits that Congress approved for the jobless earlier this month won't be as sweet as most people expected due to fine print in the law.

Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission nominee Chai Feldblum's hearings are scheduled for this Thursday, and according to the Victory Fund, Republican Senators and right-wing religious wingnuts are preparing to unleash "Armageddon" to foil the nomination.

Western Pennsylvania's hotel and motel industry is being investigated by a federal agency on whether it is complying with minimum wage and overtime pay laws, as well as recordkeeping and child labor laws, the Department of Labor said Monday.

The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was 'coerced' into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Richard Miniter, who was also vice president of opinion, made the claim in a filing Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that also disclosed he was fired last month. He said in an interview that he 'was made to feel there was no choice' but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job, and that executives 'gave me examples of people whose careers at the Times had grown after they converted' to the Unification Church. A Times spokesman said the paper would not comment.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he kept his hair short.

Two women have filed a federal lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment at the Kenton County Clerk's office.

Q I am a Chicago police officer and will retire soon with a 457 plan. The city deducts my deferral every payday but does not credit my 457 for seven to 10 days.

"Peak Oil," which is when the supply and production of oil peaks and then drops off slowly, has already been reached, according to two International Energy Agency whistleblowers.

October 22 , 2009 - October 28 , 2009 SECTION: Pg. 2 Vol. 23 No. 4 ACC-NO: 58732 LENGTH: 691 words HEADLINE: Choose Employee Benefits Carefully BYLINE: Alderman, Jason ABSTRACT Prepare for possible economic hardships.

View all Al's Morning Meeting feedback Journalists who cover healthcare fraud should be aware of a federal whistleblower law known as the False Claims Act.