The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Nevada, has cited the Las Vegas Zoo for multiple serious violations that put employees and the visiting public in danger. OSHA has proposed penalties of $13,200. While Contact 13 has been covering animal welfare issues at the zoo for the past two and a half years, OSHA has been [...]
Continue reading...3. March 2012
The National Labor Relations Board has for long been overseeing elections for labor unions and investigating and rectifying unfair labor practices. The Board assessed that there were many employees who did not come under the umbrella of any union and were at a risk of being victims of unfair labor practices. It was essential that [...]
Continue reading...2. March 2012
The wage-theft law that took effect last year has resulted in the conviction of a West Village hookah lounge, for allegedly underpaying its employees and firing two employees reporting violations to the authorities. Moutaz Ali, the proprietor of the hookah lounge called, Verandah, was found guilty of paying his employees, most of whom were immigrants, [...]
Continue reading...1. March 2012
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, investigated charges of employee discrimination and have confirmed that they have filed a suit against the US Postal Service’s Seattle Process and Distribution center in Tukwila. The Postal service stands accused of violating and infringing Section 11(c) of the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act. OSHA’s investigations revealed that [...]
Continue reading...22. February 2012
In what is increasingly being viewed as the next front line in the national right-wing-big business war on worker’s rights and their standard of living, union workers are gearing up for a fight to block six anti-labor bills from being passed. Four of these bills being considered would make collective bargaining illegal and outlaw [...]
Continue reading...20. February 2012
A few months ago, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) posted an “informal discussion letter” stating that employers requiring a high school diploma for applicants may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Due to the responses to this letter, the EEOC recently tried to shed some light on the issue. The EEOC clarified [...]
Continue reading...9. February 2012
A retailer based in Modesto, CA, will be settling a disability discrimination lawsuit to the tune of 50,000 dollars. The suit was filed on a terminated employee’s behalf by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Buy Rite Thrift Store allegedly fired a stocker working the night shift after he experienced mild seizures at the [...]
Continue reading...23. November 2011
The 13-member board of directors for 2012 at the Society for Human Resource Management has recently elected three new HR executives. This move has been applauded by people across the country and in the industry because experts claim the board was missing executives with experienced in the HR industry. “We were pleased that three HR [...]
Continue reading...26. September 2011
The controversy over the future actions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has intensified on 22 September when a congressional committee assumed the presidency of the expert group called the agency “assault on American workers and creators jobs. ” In addition to the decision of the NLRB in August and the controversy over the [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2011
The IRS has offered a program to employers concerned over the tax status of employees regarded as independent contractors. If employers meet certain criteria they can fill out Form 8952 and begin treating their independent contractors as employees while paying only a nominal amount in lieu of back taxes. This provides clarity and simplification to [...]
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3. March 2012
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