by Girish Anand | Jul 18, 2013 | Random Musings
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed HB 2950 to add bereavement to the list of protected leave categories under the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), effective Jan. 1, 2014. Under the law, employees within 60 days of the death of a family member will be able to take...
by Girish Anand | Jul 9, 2013 | Random Musings
In 2010 the Department of Labor (DOL), in an administrative interpretation, declared that mortgage loan officers do not fall under the administrative exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and are thus owed overtime pay for all work beyond 40 hours in a...
by Girish Anand | Jul 2, 2013 | Random Musings
Under pressure from business groups and fearing losses in the 2014 Congressional elections, the Obama Administration today delayed the upcoming implemention of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate that businesses with 50 or more employees provide health care or pay a...
by Girish Anand | Jun 14, 2013 | Random Musings
A remaining case brought against the mandate to post a National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Employee Rights Poster — basically, a pro-union notification — has been decided by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., which rejected the...
by Girish Anand | Sep 13, 2012 | Random Musings
A nonprofit group has cobbled together information from various sources to put forth an estimate on the cost of the Great Recession that began in 2007 and was epitomized the next year by the colossal collapse of Lehman Brothers. According to the public interest group...
by Girish Anand | Aug 31, 2012 | Federal Labor Law, Random Musings
The hamburger-flipping mantra of the 1980s seems to be playing out at last. Back then, critics of the 1983 recovery claimed the new jobs being created were all, or mostly all, hamburger-flipping positions. That scenario is closer to the truth now that we're deep...