Employment / Labor Law News

Detective Sgt. Andy Kehm, of the Bethlehem Police Department, speaks about law enforcement response.

Today at the White House, we convened the 10th annual meeting of the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Tampa, Florida -- The Americans with Disabilities Act says service dogs are working dogs and are free to go anywhere.

First, the details. Republicans have been successfully using the threat of filibuster to make it incredibly difficult for the Obama White House to appoint judges to circuit courts, political staffer positions at executive agencies, and - to an extent - chill the administration's decisions for cabinet picks.

The Idaho Department of Labor says the state's unemployment rate remained stable at 6.1 percent in April, in part because of a continuing decline in the number of people seeking work.

In an executive session, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12-10 along party lines to confirm the nomination of Thomas Perez to become secretary of the Department of Labor.

Unemployment in Arkansas is finally headed down again. The state's seasonally adjusted jobless rate declined one-tenth of a percentage point from 7.2 percent in March to 7.1 percent in April.

A row over the cancellation of thousands of motoring offences continues unabated in the 26 Counties, despite the report of an internal Garda police investigation which cleared the force of corruption.

The state Department of Labor & Industry said Friday the April rate of 7.6 percent compared to 7.9 percent in March.

The U.S. Department of Labor 's Employee Benefits Security Administration is seeking comments before issuing a proposed rule on how plan sponsors can provide lifetime income products, such as annuities, to participants in 401 and 403 defined contribution plans.

Kevin Poulsen and Aaron Swartz working out the kinks of their open sourced safe house.

From left to right: a Linda Propost, Regional Human Resources Director, Allied Barton Security Services a Marla Milligan, assistant director, Veterans' Employment and Training Service , US Department of Labor a Clark Bridges, Southwest Workforce Development Center, EDD a Yesenia Thomas, readjustment veterans outreach specialist, San Bernardino Vet ... (more)

The lawsuit filed in federal court claims Nashville-based Standard Candy Company, which makes Goo Goo Clusters, is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The Founders Pavilion, Inc., a Corning, N.Y., nursing and rehabilitation center, violated federal law by asking for genetic information during the hiring process, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in a lawsuit it filed today.

Last week, a hydraulic fracturing equipment supplier was hit with a putative class action lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania, alleging violations of state and federal wage and hour law.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has released draft principles for the Quality Control Plan for public feedback, the agency announced today.

The chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Margaret Hodge, said whistleblowers had told her that Google had sold advertising within the UK and invoiced customers in the UK.

The 62-year-old former manager of the Granite Curling Club has been accused of sexually abusing a mentally challenged male teenage employee during a staff Christmas party inside the historic, 133-year-old facility.

An unfair fight for job-seeking veterans has become increasingly evident on the jobs front.

Like a lot of Americans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said a law banning workplace discrimination against LGBT people would impact his family personally.