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July 23, 2008, 12:25 pm, 324175
Picking up on our recent discussion about EFCA, BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has an article describing the Chamber of Commerce's recent statement on the bill (hint: they don't like it). The Chamber is apparently starting a campaign to...
July 23, 2008, 11:56 am, 324176
Earlier this month, Paul posted on the progress in Congress of the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act. This proposed legislation would provide collective bargaining rights for law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel in state and local governments...
July 23, 2008, 10:51 am, 324087
. . . says Robert Reich on today's Marketplace. I think this would make a fantastic topic for a law review article: compare the U.S. to the rest of the industrialized world, find us sorely lacking, and draft the proposed...
July 23, 2008, 9:15 am, 324011
The EEOC has adopted a new compliance manual for claims involving religious discrimination and accommodation under Title VII. Some of the highlights from the BNA Daily Labor Report (subscription required) explaining different types of religious discrimination in employment: Treating applicants...
July 22, 2008, 6:43 pm, 323668
The ABA Section of Employment and Labor Law will be having its second annual CLE conference in Denver September 10-13, 2008. And the host committee writes: As the Denver Host Committee, we would like to encourage you to register for...
July 22, 2008, 3:55 pm, 323619
Daniel L. Chen (left) and Jasmin K. Sethi (right) have posted on SSRN their working paper on The Effects of Sexual Harassment Law on Gender Inequality: Interpreting antidiscrimination law to forbid sexual harassment has been one of the key practical...
July 22, 2008, 8:20 am, 323277
Many apologies for the inconsistent fonts on recent posts. It's a technical glitch that we haven't figured out yet. Joe H. tells us it "might relate to a back-end migration taking place at TypePad right now." I'm not sure what...
July 22, 2008, 8:45 am, 323276
The NLRB announced yesterday that beginning next month, final Board and ALJ decisions will be issued electronically (E-Issuance) at the close of each business day by being listed on a daily e-docket sheet posted on the NLRB website. Parties who...
July 21, 2008, 3:56 pm, 322955
The Seventh Circuit an opinion released last week in Hall v. Nalco Co., in what seems to be a case of first impression at the circuit level, held that terminating a women for the time she took to undergo fertility...
July 21, 2008, 3:06 pm, 322893
The Rocky Mountain News has a special investigative report on the government's system for compensating Cold War-era nuclear workers who are now sick because of exposure to toxins on the job. The report is chilling in its description of the...