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Breastfeeding Law Poses Unique Challenge To Small Businesses

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Small Business News and Trends, Fair Labor Standards Act, Affordable Care Act, Best for Babes Foundation, Breastfeeding at Work, Small Business News

A federal law regarding working mothers is posing a new challenge to businesses, especially to smaller businesses with limited resources. According to...

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Universal Rights Extend to Alabama

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Minimum Wage, Alabama, Human Rights, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Illegal Immigrants, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, U.S. Department of Labor, Immigration Reform, Latino Voices News
Sec. Hilda Solis

The Department of Labor will vigorously protect the right of all workers in Alabama to have their federal right to a legal wage protected.

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President Obama Is Right: Home Health Aides Deserve Minimum Wage and Overtime Protections

Michele Host | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Home Health Aides, Minimum Wage, Workers, Unions, Skilled Workers, Workers Rights, Politics News
Michele Host

The lack of minimum wage and overtime protections for home health aides hurts more people than just the workers themselves. Consumers inevitably suffer as well.

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Donna Ballman: Potential Employees Beware: Some Employment Laws Hate Job Seekers

Red Room | Posted 01.23.2012

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Red Room

An ugly new trend is spreading in the workplace, and the courts say it's okay. If you're trying to get a job, employers can now discriminate against you in ways that current employers can't.

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Arthur Delaney

Bridge To Work: Obama's Plan For Long-Term Unemployed

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama announced Thursday evening a plan to put the long-term jobless back to work by encouraging states to adopt "Bridge to Wo...

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Dave Jamieson

Republicans: Bedrock Overtime, Minimum Wage Laws Due For Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Fair Labor Standards Act, Minimum Wage, Tim Walberg, Overtime, Dennis Kucinich, Labor Law, Politics News

In a Congressional hearing Thursday, Republican lawmakers indicated a willingness to reform the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the bedrock Depressio...

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The Creeping Rollback Of Child-Labor Laws

Time | Adam Cohen | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Child-Labor Laws, Maine Child Labor, Child Labor Laws Rollback, Child Labor, Politics News

The government has not had a lot of ideas for what to do about the nation's anemic job market, but there are troubling signs that one old idea is star...

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FDR and Labor: Earning Our Way Out of the Great Recession

David Woolner | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Woolner

For FDR, the key to recovery lay in measures that made it possible for the worker to earn a decent wage. It's time for our leaders to recognize that a well-paid middle class is a necessity if we hope to get out the Great Recession.

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Frick Collection Doesn't Frickin' Get It

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ashley Wren Collins

The Frick Collection does not admit children under the age of 10 (though it says nothing about admitting those under the age of two) and its young educational outreach programs are geared only to middle school students and older.

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For Mother's Day, Hope for Work-Life Balance and Workplace Flexibility

David Gray | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Fair Labor Standards Act, Work-Life Balance, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Mother's Day, Work Life Balance Award Act of 2010, House Worker Protection Subcommittee, White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility, Business News
David Gray

President Obama's White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility could create incentives for business policies that help mothers, and all Americans, find more work-life balance.

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One in Three Businesses at Risk in Independent Contractor Crackdown

Jim Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Fair Labor Standards Act, Small Business, Employment Taxes, Labor Department, Internal Revenue Service, Employee/Independent Contractor Classification, Business, Worker Classification, Business News
Jim Thomas

An effort by the Treasury and Labor Departments to reclassify independent contractors as employees is projected to add $7 billion to the government's bottom line over the next ten years.

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Overtime: 5 Things You Need to Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Charlotte Jensen | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Overtime Rules, Fair Labor Standards Act, Money, Department of Labor, Federal Labor Laws, Overtime Labor Laws, 5 Things You Need to Know, Overtime Pay, Exempt Employee, Labor Laws, Overtime Laws, Wage and Hour, Management, Taxes and Accounting, Small Business News

Are you lost in the labyrinth of regulations pertaining to overtime? You're not alone. Plenty of business owners inadvertently find themselves confuse...

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Jobs: Optimism Has Employers Hiring Again

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Independent Contractor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Child Labor, Minimum Wage, Florida, Overtime Wages, Workers? Compensation, Labor Department, Irs, Employment, Business News, Jobs, Sba, Payroll Tax, Small Business, Business News
Jerry Chautin

Employers who think they can avoid payroll tax and employee benefits by mischaracterizing independent contractors may be in for a surprise. The IRS, Labor Department, and even local state governments may disagree and the consequences can be severe.

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Deregulation Defrauds Americans

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Labor Standards Act, Gregory D. Kutz, U.S. Labor Department, Ronald Reagan, Economy, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae, United Steelworkers, Freddie Mac, Bush Administration, Washington Post Columnist E. J. Dionne Jr., Ben S. Bernanke, U.S. Congress, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Gao, Bear Stearns, U.S. Rep. George Miller, Indymac Bancorp, Government Accountability Office, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

For decades, conservatives have vilified the word regulation. This has brought us corporate slavery approved by the U.S. government and panic lines of depositors outside banks.

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