Update, inform, and explain current employment and labor-related issues
Well, at least Mount Rushmore is open again, along with the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon. But for most of the Administrative Agencies related to labor and employment, things haven’t gotten much better since last week, and the deadlock in D.C. continues. Here’s the latest information available:
Department of Labor (DOL)
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“government shutdown” NLRB FTC FCC DOJ EEOC “contingency plans”…
Continue Reading What’s happening out there? The effect of the government shutdown on its agencies.
On August 29, 2013, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania – an intermediate appellate court – affirmed an Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (UCBR) decision that because an employee who was earning $9.00 an hour was unable to afford to pay for care repair or to buy another vehicle, the employee showed “good cause” for violating…
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a casino which had instituted two layoffs that ultimately culminated in the closure of its facility violated the federalWorker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act by failing to provide notice to its former employees in a timely and appropriate manner. This liability was established…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued a new directive entitled “Calculating Back Pay as a Part of Make-Whole Relief for Victims of Employment Discrimination” (“Directive”). The Directive addresses the two distinct models for calculating back pay relief – formula relief and individual relief – and…
Must your company file an EEO-1 report on an annual basis? If your company has facilities in different geographical areas, how are these reported on the EEO-1? How are you collecting gender and ethnicity/race information from your employees for this report, and is that protocol consistent with the parameters set by the Department of Labor…
‘Fair Employment Opportunity Act’ unemployment ‘National Employment Law Project’…
Continue Reading Fair Employment Opportunity Act would prohibit hiring discrimination against unemployed job seekers.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires a 60-day notice to employees before a “mass layoff” can take place. A mass layoff is a reduction in force which is not the result of a plant closure, but which results in an employment loss of at least 50 full-time employees at a single site.
In one of the most dramatic and convoluted scenarios ever seen in a whistle-blower case, a doctor has been disciplined by a medical board; a hospital administrator has been jailed; two nurses have been fired, criminally charged, acquitted, and then awarded $750,000; and a local sheriff has been removed from office and sentenced to jail…
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld summary judgment against a bank teller who claimed that she was constructively discharged when she left her job on the last day of her pregnancy-related medical leave. Trierweiler v. Wells Fargo bank, 8th Cir., No. 10-1343, April 8, 2011.
An individual can support a claim of…