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The U.S. Congress typically votes on laws proposed to protect ordinary citizens, but sometimes Congress votes on measures intended to protect congressional employees from members of Congress. That was apparently the case in a recent House vote to fund an expansion of...
Over the past several months, President Obama has been widely criticized for failing to protect the LGBT community from a certain kind of discrimination. It is within the president’s authority to draft an executive order insisting that LGBT workers must be protected...
A recent report has found that wage theft against low-wage workers totals about $280 million for 2012, which is double the amount that is stolen through robberies on the street, bank robberies, and gas station and convenience store robberies. Yet for most of us we...
A prominent chef who was once featured on a Food Network cooking competition show is being sued for alleged violations of the Family Medical Leave Act by a former chef at one of his restaurants. The man who filed the lawsuit says that when his wife suffered from a...
An executive order signed by the president this week is seen as a big step in the direction of pay equality for women and minorities. The order puts new requirements on government contractors to disclose pay data with race and gender denoted and to prohibit...
Managers from locations of the global fast food restaurant McDonald’s told a worker’s advocacy group that on many occasions they intentionally stole wages from employees. Their statements are adding fuel to the fire that is the current conflict between corporate...
A candidate for governor of Maryland has introduced a new labor law proposal to her political platform that would aim at narrowing or eliminating the gap between men and women’s pay. At the moment on a national level women make 77 cents for every dollar that a man...
Telecommuting, or working from home, is becoming more and more popular by the year as a way to provide employees with a more flexible work schedule and to help employers save money on office space and other resources. In fact, telecommuting has become so popular that...
The United States Supreme Court handed down an important employment law ruling last week that extends whistleblower protection to a broader range of employees. Previously whistleblower laws only protected employees at publicly traded companies under the theory that...
An employee of a poultry farm did not have her rights violated when her employer fired her after she did not return promptly from a trip she took to care for her ill father. The woman said that the firing was a wrongful termination because under the Family Medical...