by Girish Anand | Jan 30, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
News item from the blogosphere: Earlier this year, Car Care Inc., a subsidiary of Mace Securities Inc., was ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 and to forfeit $500,000 to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following a 2006 investigation. (At one time,...
by Girish Anand | Jan 30, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, State Labor Law
The New Jersey State Supreme Court, in a 6-1 ruling, has authorized striking nurses to receive unemployment benefits, overturning just about every precedent concerning unemployment insurance. The lone dissenting justice, Roberto Rivera-Soto, called the decision...
by Girish Anand | Jan 29, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
This week the U.S. Supreme Court reversed lower-court rulings in the case of Vicky* Crawford, allowing her suit against Metro Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee to go to trial. (*I’ve also seen her first name spelled Vicki, don’t know which is correct.)...
by Girish Anand | Jan 29, 2009 | Federal Labor Law
No doubt emblematic of his entire time in office, President Barack Obama will sign his first piece of legislation today–a labor law that overturns a Bush-era Supreme Court decision. Lilly Ledbetter, who was the subject of that Supreme Court ruling, will be there...
by Girish Anand | Jan 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
Okay, forget the official figure of 7.2 percent that the media quote for U.S. unemployment. As the accompanying graphic from Shadow Stats shows, what the media report is called the U3 unemployment rate–the officially unemployed shown on the bottom red line. When...