by Girish Anand | Sep 14, 2009 | Random Musings, State Labor Law
Switzerland has jumped ahead of the United States in terms of global business competitiveness, according to the annual survey of the World Economic Forum. The People’s Republic of China has also moved into the top 30 for the first time. Though Switzerland and...
by Girish Anand | Sep 11, 2009 | Random Musings
They couldn’t muster the 60th vote, says Senator Tom Harkin, D.-Iowa, one of the sponsors of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which detractors have dubbed the Employee Forced Choice Act. The 60th vote needed to choke off a filibuster over the measure...
by Girish Anand | Sep 10, 2009 | State Labor Law
The City of Vallejo, Calif., has been in bankruptcy court for quite some time now, running up a legal tab of about $5 million, but it’s made some progress in getting most of its labor contracts voluntarily renegotiated to lower its obligations. Not so the...
by Girish Anand | Sep 9, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, Personnel Concepts
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has codified the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into its Compliance Manual, incorporating the law’s standard that the statute of limitation on discriminatory pay practices resets each time a paycheck is issued,...
by Girish Anand | Sep 5, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Personnel Concepts
Though the Obama administration has dropped the “no match” rule that created a safe harbor for employers who lay off workers whose Social Security numbers don’t match their names, the layoff route is still the route of choice for employers who get...