by Girish Anand | Jun 30, 2011 | DOL, Minimum Wage Law
Beginning in Homestead, Fla., in March, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has been conducting an agricultural labor law compliance sweep up the East Coast of America, already recovering $670,770 in back wages and assessing $128,850 in fines....
by Girish Anand | Jun 29, 2011 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently unveiled a new interactive web tool to help users determine whether injuries and illnesses are work-related and recordable under the OSHA Recordkeeping rules. The OSHA Recordkeeping Advisor is an interactive...
by Girish Anand | Jun 27, 2011 | Health Care Reform
In a convoluted statement, the Massachusetts Attorney General is proposing a variation of price controls on health care in the state. AG Martha Coakley, who famously lost to Scott Brown in the Senate election of 2010, issued a report that recommended "at least...
by Girish Anand | Jun 23, 2011 | EEOC
Deliberate discrimination against job seekers based on their race, sex, age, national origin or other prohibited basis remains a major national problem, a battery of experts told the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at a Commission meeting yesterday...
by Girish Anand | Jun 22, 2011 | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today (June 22, 2011) is publishing in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to amend election rules that will allow for electronic filing and speedier voting time-frames and result-publishing....