Yesterday morning, on Christmas Eve, the Senate passed its version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Whether the law will be good in the short or long term is now unknown, but it will allow many more people to obtain health insurance who were otherwise considered uninsurable.
And earlier this week, on December 21,...
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Hey, Where’s My Christmas Bonus?
Workers are entitled to be paid for the hours they work. So, even if they are fired, the employer has to pay for the time spent in its employ. If the worker was pulling a Wally in Dilbert’s company, and working harder on avoiding work than actually doing any work, the employer still has to...
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Update on the Franken Amendment
The Franken Amendment has passed the House and is expected to become law. Under the amendment to next year’s appropriations bill, contractors doing more than $1,000,000 of business with the federal government must agree not to require arbitration, rather than court, claims of discrimination, sexual assault, and other employment claims. Six months after the effective...
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Congress Sends More Resources to EEOC
The staffing levels at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suffered during the Bush administration. With the latest funding bill passed last and this week by Congress, the EEOC will receive $23,000,000 for more investigators.
When claims are filed by complainants, the agency typically offers a mediator to allow the parties to work out their differences quickly. ...
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