By Jeffrey M. Place Last week, NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin issued a memorandum to the National Labor Relations Board’s Regional Directors, … Read more
EEOC Updates Guidance on Religious Dress in the Workplace
By Jane Ann Himsel The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released two new technical assistance documents governing religious dress and … Read more
The EEOC Has Been Busy; Here’s How To Avoid Being Another Statistic
By David N. Goldman Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently updated its charge statistics (the total number of discrimination … Read more
Weekly Wrap: It’s Sad We Don’t Send Out Rejection Letters Anymore
Everyone should have the experience of getting a few rejection letters sometime in their lives. I was thinking about this today because, a) I have gotten … Read more
Using an Employee’s Personal Social Media Account May Violate the Law
By Eric B. Meyer Back in 2011, when you were all Tebowing, planking and “winning,” I was blogging about this case where an employer allegedly … Read more
February Jobs Report Improved a Little, But Still Not as Good as Last Year
Less crippled than economists predicted by the nasty weather that gripped much of the nation last month, the U.S.Department of Labor reports that the … Read more
Survey: Employers Not So Sure They’ll Continue Offering Health Benefits
Big employers are pretty sure they’ll keep offering workers health care coverage. But they seem a lot less sure than they used to be, according to a survey … Read more
NLRB’s Expedited Election Rule: “A Solution in Search of a Problem”
By Ilyse Wolens Schuman Employee privacy and employer due process concerns were the focal point of Wednesday’s House Committee hearing on the National … Read more
President’s Budget Would Continue Push For More Workplace Enforcement
By Ilyse Wolens Schuman This week, the White House released its $3.9 trillion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015. While such proposals are more … Read more
The Myth of Work-Life Balance: What Does It Say When the U.S. is No. 29?
According to the 2013 Better Life Index by OECD (the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development) we’re still fighting the battle to find … Read more