Working: Labor Steps Up Fight Against Wage Violations
Low-wage workers weren’t the only winners last week when the minimum wage increased to $7.25 an hour. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis also announced the agency is hiring 250 more federal wage and hour investigators.
It’s welcome news to the thousands of workers cheated out of minimum wage and overtime pay each year.
Currently, the agency has about 650 investigators, but even with the increase, Solis said the agency is barely getting back to its 2001 staffing levels.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/sixel/6553948.html
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nowHIRE.com Webinar Sheds Light on Form I-9 Compliance and Pending E-Verify Mandate
Effective Sept. 8, 2009, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) E-Verify electronic employment verification system will be required for many government contractors and subcontractors. According to numbers released to the Center for Immigration Studies by the Department of Homeland Security, E-Verify is now being used to determine work authorization for one in four new hires in the United States.
Read the full article below.
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What Do You Discriminated Against?
So I was talking with a friend when she sent me a post she read on a blog that got me thinking. There are many things to discriminate against; race, sex, age, sexual orientation but what is trans discrimination? It isn’t gender discrimination in isolation… it isn’t sexual discrimination.
Link to the full article below.
http://o1oo1o11.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/what-do-you-discriminated-against/
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E-Verify, Verified by Department of Homeland Security
The federal government finally moved forward on E-Verify and will require all federal contract employers use the verification process to prove U.S. residency and ensure tax dollars are going to legal residents.
Link to the full article below.
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Employers Need to Understand Laws on Workplace Harassment
I understand harassment claims by current and former employees are increasing with the tight economy. Refresh us on what’s considered illegal harassment.
The full article is linked below.
http://newsok.com/qa-with-vic-albert/article/3388545
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How to Get to Work-Life Balance
Workers are parents. Workers are caregivers for their elderly and disabled adult loved ones. And yes, workers get sick sometimes and have to stop working and take care of themselves. The question is when our workplaces are going to acknowledge these all-too-obvious facts and provide basic benefits that let working people handle their non-work lives without going broke.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.openleft.com/diary/14380/how-to-get-to-worklife-balance
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Immigration Detention: Enforcing a Double Standard
According to a massive report just released by the ACLU of Southern California, the National Immigration Law Center and other legal advocates, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention centers have routinely blocked detainees’ contact with family members and advocates, cut off from critical health care services, and provided little legal recourse against maltreatment—all with virtually no meaningful oversight.
Read the full article linked below.
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2009/07/immigration_detention_enforcin_1.html
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Everyone’s An Employer Under FLSA
So, the FLSA’s wage and hour provisions receive little attention in California. But with the bad economy and companies going bankrupt, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals may have just given plaintiffs a reason to heart federal court.
Boucher and a couple of others worked for the Castaways Hotel in Nevada. The Castaways filed for Bankruptcy protection. Later, it fired the plaintiffs. Undeterred by their former employer’s insolvency, they sued the CEO, CFO and a senior manager responsible for labor relations (hi, HR managers!).
The full article is linked below.
http://shawvalenza.blogspot.com/2009/07/ninth-circuit-everyones-employer-under.html
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How to Avoid Workplace Discrimination?
In an increasingly diverse workforce, the possibility of workplace discrimination rises. Whether incidences are intentional or unintended, a discriminatory act against a person in a federally “protected class” can lead to a claim and federal investigation. While most companies have procedures in place for dealing with a discrimination claim, it’s better to implement strategies to avoid workplace discrimination in the first place.
You can link to the full article below.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2140040_avoid-workplace-discrimination.html
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Sex Discrimination Suit, I Don’t Think Mayor Michael Bloomberg Counted on This!
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg endured three and half more hours of questioning Monday during a second and likely final deposition for a federal discrimination lawsuit against the financial services and media corporation that he founded.
The full article is linked below.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/bloomberg-is-questioned-in-sex-harassment-suit/
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