The EEOC announced a large award in a case against a turkey processor which abused intellectually disabled workers for years.
According to the press release, The EEOC filed suit on behalf of a class of disabled workers who were being paid $65 per month for full time work and required to live in a “bunkhouse”...
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NLRB Formally Sanctions Anti-Posting Rule
The National Labor Relations Board has been closely reviewing employer rules on employee communications, especially in the social media context. As reported here earlier, employees who used facebook to air grievances about something on the job were protected. The protection is not limitless; a newspaper employee who tweeted inappropriate and offensive tweets about the city’s...
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Are you better off than you were forty years ago?
The first politician to trot out the line, “are you better off now than you were four years ago,” must have realized he was onto something big. It was Ronald Reagan, and he was terrific at the sound bite. Everyone has been using a version of that line ever since, and backing up their story...
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What Makes a Great Place to Work?
Top ten lists are always fun, if not funny. Fox Business News recently published a list of the top 11 worst places to work in corporate America. (Shades of Spinal Tap.) Most of the companies earned negative reviews from its employees because of poor management. This led employees to complain of their own poor treatment,...
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