Workplace Watch
Employment: Feds Target Connecticut, R.I. Construction Industry
Scrutiny will focus on wage and hour, misclassification issues Connecticut and Rhode Island construction industry employers will face increased government scrutiny of their labor and employment practices over the next several years. On Nov. 30, 2011, the Hartford office of the U.S Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division issued a press release announcing a 'multiyear enforcement initiative' aimed ...

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Obama the headhunter
President Obama has pledged not to rest until everyone looking for a job finds one. On Monday, he upped the ante on that promise, volunteering to help a woman find work for her unemployed husband. Obama was answering questions from so-called ordinary Americans during an online chat that was broadcast on the Google+ Hangout social media site and YouTube when a woman named Jennifer Weddel, of Texas, ...

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Missouri Democrats oppose proposed changes in workplace discrimination laws
JEFFERSON CITY | Black lawmakers in Missouri, fearful of reversing decades of hard-fought civil rights gains, said Monday they will try to prevent votes in the House and Senate on a measure that would change the state's workplace discrimination laws. A measure pending in the Senate would require workers who bring wrongful termination lawsuits to prove discrimination was a motivating factor not ...

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Labor: The EEOC tackles discrimination
The agency's draft strategic plan includes immediate implications for employers The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC's) recent release of its draft four-year strategic plan gives interested parties a vision of how the agency plans to position itself long term. However, it also gives some insight on immediate implications for employers about the EEOC's efforts to generate the underlying ...

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Legal Alert: DOL Proposes Revising FMLA Regulations
Executive Summary: The Department of Labor has announced that it will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR) proposing regulations implementing the changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) made by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the 2009 Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act (AFCTC). The DOL also proposes deleting optional use forms from the Appendix ...

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