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News release : "The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of an updated version of its popular Employment Law Guide [September 2009], an online publication that describes the major employment laws administered by the department.

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When the going gets tough, the employment discrimination enforcement actions get going.

California has received $60 million from the federal stimulus package to upgrade its 23-year-old unemployment benefits system even though previous federal funding to improve the same system has not been fully spent.

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New York workers who want to report theya ve been underpaid or mistreated on the job are getting stronger protection against retaliation by their employers under a new law.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

Lenny Kepil sits at his video phone relay service which he uses to communicate. Kepil, who is deaf, was recently laid off and is looking for work.

To view the Nevada Supreme Court's opinion, along with further details of the case, go to www.nevadajustice.us and look under "Latest Supreme Court Items" on the Supreme Court page.

Workers who want to report they've been underpaid or mistreated on the job are getting stronger protection against retaliation by their employers under a new state law that goes into effect this week.

Vermont Department of Labor officials say they've begun notifying some people receiving jobless benefits that they could be eligible for more.

Bradley C. Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison for helping rich Americans dodge their taxes.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2009; The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that workers from New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.

There are new signs that enhanced training benefits just granted to NUMMI workers by the U.S. Department of Labor may also open the door for similar benefits to tens of thousands of NUMMI suppliers losing their jobs.

The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the city of Poplarville to improve access for persons with disabilities to its programs, services, activities and facilities.

Share + Nov 25, 2009 10:28 am US/Eastern Timeline: U.S. Credit Crunch & Financial Failures 1 of 1 Veterans and family members wait on line to attend the 'Operation: Hire Veterans Career Fair' sponsored by the Department of Labor at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum November 23, 2009 in New York City.

Selectmen held a preliminary review of 21 proposed warrant articles for the March 2010 ballot on Nov.

In a depressed neighborhood in the City of Angels, hundreds of good jobs appeared to fall from the sky last week.

Federal regulators leviedA the second largestA workplace safety fine in Colorado history against a rural businessA accused of poor safety practices and child labor law violatons.

" Moving company owner Michael Stamm thinks if New Hampshire wants to mandate paid sick days for his business, New Hampshire should pay for them, and not require him to pay.

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that $4.4 million in National Emergency Grant funding has been awarded to Ohio to continue assisting workers that were affected when DHL Express eliminated its North American air and ground freight operations in Wilmington.

The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry has opened an investigation that could last six months into the industrial accident that killed a Burris Logistics worker in Lyndhurst, officials said Monday.

The state has notified about 2,000 jobless Montanans whose unemployment benefits have expired that they are now eligible for extended payments under a recently passed federal law.

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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.

Via Mitchell Rubenstein at the Adjunct Law Prof Blog : the National Law Journal is reporting that new EEOC statistics surprisingly show a 7% decline in the number of age discrimination complaints filed this year, as compared to last year.

The Cheesecake Factory, a chain restaurant that we hoped would invade every corner of America with its delicious goodness, will pay $345,000 to settle charges it knowingly tolerated male kitchen workers' sexual harassment of other male staffers at a Phoenix-area location.

Mike Stefani is accused of acting unethically while representing police officers in whistle-blower lawsuits against Kilpatrick and the city.

THE Superior Court has ordered that all aliens lawfully admitted to the CNMI and now hold or formerly held an entry permit under Immigration Category 240K as of Nov.

Three Orthodox Jewish medics say a volunteer fire department ban on beards is religious discrimination.

Steve Harlan knows the importance of being prepared. His son's home near Sumner's Rivergrove Drive was struck by January's major flooding and Harlan wants to make sure that the situation doesn't repeat itself this winter.

Employment discrimination can be found in numerous situations, including the law enforcement community.

A Harrison County corrections officer was dismissed from his job at the county jail following an internal investigation of alleged sexual harassment against a female employee, according to two county commissioners.

November 10, 2009 -- Oxford, MS The Enterprise for Innovative Geospatial Solutions , housed at The University of Mississippi, is pleased to announce the launch of MARS 2009 high school GIS projects.

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Swan song: Weekend Konocti Harbor Resort and Spa shows mark the end of an era Nov.

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 .

The central government has announced a scheme providing financial rewards to whistleblowers who risk providing information about those involved in the spurious drugs racket.

Labor Commissioner Jim Neeley today announced the state of Tennessee has received $12,055,644 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to enhance the state's Trade Adjustment Assistance Program.

At the pace of everyday life, the bumps taken by people like Jacobi Harvey are easy to miss.

Montanaa s insurance commissionera s practice of disapproving any insurance contract if it contains a a oediscretionary clausea isna t preempted by ERISA, the 9th Circuit has ruled.

The Lawry's restaurant chain agreed Monday to pay more than $1 million to settle a federal lawsuit that claimed it barred men from waiting tables at its high-end steakhouses.

Not so says the EEOC. From the National Law Journal : Many of Burwell's clients who attended the breakfast are facing EEOC charges, some for the first time.

Schwan's, the frozen-food delivery company based in Marshall, Minn., unleashed a blistering response Friday in a sexual discrimination case against the company, accusing a government agency of abusing its power while investigating a woman's claims that she was harassed by managers and then demoted for complaining about it.

The Salem County Cultural and Heritage Commission is sponsoring a free workshop Thursday to help the county's arts organizations to better understand rules related to the Americans With Disabilities Act.

For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

United States: Employee Benefits And Executive Compensation / Health Law Advisory: DOL, Treasury And HHS Issue Joint Interim Final Rule Under Title - Of The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Of 2008 was signed into law on May 21, 2008.