by Girish Anand | Oct 9, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Health Care Reform, Uncategorized
This week a House-Senate panel reconciling budget measures voted to extend for three years the E-Verify online employment eligibility system. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formally withdrew the "no match" safe harbor rule of the...
by Girish Anand | Oct 7, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Uncategorized
About one-third of all employees who call in sick are faking it, a percentage that has held steady over the years. However, the chances of getting fired for abusing sick-day privileges are falling, down from 18 percent a year ago to 15 percent today, according to a...
by Girish Anand | Oct 6, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Uncategorized
The E-Verify online employee status system faced two new hurdles in September. On Sept. 8, the E-Verify Contractor Rule was set to go into effect but faced last-minute court challenges, and on Sept. 31 funding for the system itself was in danger of expiring. On the...
by Girish Anand | Sep 23, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Uncategorized
I’m not sure if this is what’s happening or not, but it looks suspiciously so: The Department of Labor (DOL) is eliminating its Employment Standards Administration (ESA) effective Nov. 8. After that, the four agencies/departments now administered by...
by Girish Anand | Aug 28, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, Personnel Concepts, Uncategorized
We’ve just posted a new white paper in that section on the Personnel Concepts new Web site entitled “Popular Misconceptions,” in which we examine the ingenious ways that employers seek to stay off the overtime-pay radar of the Department of Labor...
by Girish Anand | Jul 24, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, Personnel Concepts, Uncategorized
Mass layoffs of 50 or more employees receded in June to 2,763 events, down 170 from May’s record high. In all, the June layoffs resulted in 279,231 new filings for unemployment insurance, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced on July 23. Thus, over the...