Employment / Labor Law News

Just 16 of the 600 businesses checked since July have been cited under South Carolina's new immigration law, touted by state lawmakers as one of the toughest in the nation.

The national unemployed rate went up to 10.2% Idaho is not that far behind, with 8.9%. "Mostly just hopeful, there's not a lot out there," said an unemployed Treasure Valley man.

After providing officers for traffic control at seven Iredell-Statesville Schools for a number of years, a local security company recently discontinued the practice.

A Pennsylvania woman was awarded $150,000 in a discrimination suit claiming she had to wear diapers to work due to a lack of toilets.

Accused by the Opposition NDP of being on a "witch hunt" for employees who leaked information about a prisoner being mistakenly released, Premier Brad Wall said Thursday the Saskatchewan Party government does not intend to beef up legislation to protect "whistle-blowers." However, Wall said the government will move ahead with plans for a "public ...

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 .