by Girish Anand | May 28, 2013 | State Labor Law
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley this month signed legislation amending the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act (FEPA) mandating light-duty and other reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees who are temporarily disabled. The Reasonable Accommodations for...
by Girish Anand | May 27, 2013 | Health Care Reform, HHS, PPACA
Obamacare, according to a CNN/ORC International Poll conducted May17-18, is just as unpopular today as it was in 2010 when opposition sent Scott Brown into the presumably Democratic stronghold Senate seat in Massachusetts held previously by Ted Kennedy. To put...
by Girish Anand | May 23, 2013 | NLRB
President Obama's five recent nominees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) were voted out of committee yesterday, and their names are being sent to the full Senate for a package vote, up or down. The vote will require 60 Senators in favor for cloture...
by Girish Anand | May 22, 2013 | EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released draft principles for the Quality Control Plan (QCP) for public feedback, the agency announced recently. The QCP will revise criteria to measure the quality of agency investigations and conciliations...
by Girish Anand | May 22, 2013 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, FLSA, Minimum Wage Law, WHD
According to the Federal Judicial Center, which tracks lawsuit statistics at the federal level, employees filed 7,764 federal wage-and-hour lawsuits between April 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, a 10 percent jump over the previous year. In contrast, such lawsuits rose...