by admin | Jul 9, 2015 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
Administration lawyers will be back before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow in a second attempt to get the justices to lift a legal hold placed on the president’s immigration executive orders by a federal judge in Texas. The effort could prove to...
by admin | Jul 9, 2015 | Health Care Reform, HHS
Health departments across the country will receive more than $840 million in cooperative agreements from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve and sustain emergency preparedness of state and local public health and health care systems. The...
by admin | Jul 6, 2015 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, FLSA
The Department of Labor (DOL) and its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) today published their proposed new overtime rules in the Federal Register, opening a public commentary period that will close 60 days after publication, on Sept. 4. As announced last week by President...
by admin | Jul 5, 2015 | NLRA, NLRB
On July 5, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) into existence, and along with it, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). On the observance of the law’s 80th anniversary, current NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston...
by admin | Jul 1, 2015 | Discrimination, EEOC
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will hold a meeting today, July 1, at 9:30 a.m. (Eastern Time), at agency headquarters, 131 M Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. The meeting, entitled “EEOC at 50: Progress and Continuing Challenges in Eradicating...