Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at
12:11 pm
Store Associate Alex is paid on an hourly basis at the rate of $10 per hour.
On Monday, he accepts a $150 check in payment for merchandise. He was so busy
that he forgot to get the necessary customer information, and now the check
has been returned because the account is closed. Alex’s employer is unable to
contact the customer.
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at
12:22 am
Everybody on the employer side likes to pick on the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, and the temptation is even greater now that its chair
has taken such an aggressive stance on issues like pre-employment credit and
background checks. However, employers occasionally shoot themselves in the
foot (feet?) with the agency by making mistakes that only compound their
problems. If you can avoid making these nine mistakes, chances are good that
you (and your company) will be on the list of employers to whom the EEOC gives
the benefit of the doubt â?? a very good place to be.
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Monday, March 14th, 2011 at
12:12 pm
On July 21, 2010, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 4173 Â? better known as
the Dodd-Frank Act (â??Dodd-Frankâ?). The stated purpose of the new law is:
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Sunday, March 13th, 2011 at
12:11 pm
Last month, employersâ?? attention was focused on the settlement of a matter
in which the NLRB originally had announced plans to prosecute a complaint
brought by its Connecticut regional office regarding the termination of a
union member/employee who had posted negative remarks about her supervisor and
her employer on her personal Facebook page.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at
12:15 pm
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 at
12:13 am
As reported here, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that
plaintiffs could simultaneously proceed with state law wage claims brought as
an opt-out class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 in the same
case with an opt-in collective action filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA).
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