The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a new guide for employersabout the rights of disabled veterans to be free from discrimination.
Veterans are entitled to the same rights as other employees and potential employees to be free from discrimination, but the law has added a few additional provisions for them. Disability discrimination seems to be...
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New ADA Case Absolves Employers from Need to Accommodate Inability to Work Overtime
A new case from the Fourth Circuit directly addresses a common enough dilemma: if an illness weakens an employee such that he can’t handle swing shifts or overtime, must an employee accommodate that problem?
No, says the Court. An employee who is able to return to a 40-hour week is not disabled in the major life...
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Improvement in Hiring Figures
The latest labor statistics show a net employment gain of 1.4 million jobs over the past year. As of the end of December, 3.4 million job openings waited for candidates, up 300,000 from the end of November. The report also analyzed the reasons for people leaving, the cause of most job openings. For the past...
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Fourth Circuit Grapples with Retaliation Under FLSA
The Supreme Court issued a decision last year stating for the first time that a complaint about wages and hours need not be in writing to invoke the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Before that, many courts had determined that only complaints made to the Department of Labor triggered anti-retaliation protection. The Supreme...
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