By Patricia F. Weisberg The U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division’s final rule amending the agency’s Fair Labor Standards Act regulations took … Read more
Will New NFL Labor Deal Include Social Media Restrictions for Players?
By Eric B. Meyer I’m guessing that social media is not at the top of either side’s list of demands in the current National Football League … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Management Wisdom From a Guy Making Grilled Cheese
Sometimes, management wisdom comes from unexpected places. For instance, take this blog post from New York Times tech writer David Pogue titled Flipping to … Read more
Sweeping Workplace Changes in New Zealand
By Philip Marchion On April 1, 2011, the Government’s Employment Relations and Holiday Act went into effect, setting forth several key workplace changes … Read more
Staffing Firms Rally to Fight Off Disclosure, Fee Limits Bill
A coalition of labor unions and immigrant workers organizations is pushing a bill in Massachusetts to overhaul the state’s staffing industry. If … Read more
Business Owner and His Job Foreman Each Go To Jail For Worker’s Death
The owner and the foreman of a roofing company have each been sentenced to one-year jail terms because they did not put protection measures in place that … Read more
Oh Canada! Getting Tough on Permits for Americans Working in Canada
By Shannon Stevenson Gone are the days when an employer could send its U.S. citizen employees to the Canadian border with a passport and a simple … Read more
Court Upholds Arizona’s E-Verify Law, Penalties for Using Unauthorized Workers
By Jessica Cook and Kim Thompson This week (May 26, 2011) the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Arizona’s 2007 immigration law that requires all employers to … Read more
Age Bias at Work: As This Case Shows, There’s a High Standard to Meet
By Eric B. Meyer A 51-year-old auto-parts specialist with lupus, fibromyalgia, diabetes and arthritis, claimed that his 29-year-old co-worker called him an … Read more
Another Social Media Discovery Ruling Employers Need to Know About
By Eric B. Meyer Last week, I reported that a Pennsylvania state court had ruled that a plaintiff did not have to provide access to her Facebook page … Read more