Labor Law

More And More Workers Claim Companies Are Withholding Pay

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Great Speed Up, Wages, Labor Law, Wage Stagnation, Slideexpand, Unpaid Overtime, Overtime Pay, Labor, Video, Wage and Hours Lawsuits, Salary, Overtime, Wage and Hour, Business News

Do American companies have a problem with paying their employees? A growing number of workers seem to think so. Collective action lawsuits alleging...

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Inviting Fury From GOP, Obama Doubles Down On Recess Appointments

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 01.05.2012

WASHINGTON -- Doubling down on President Barack Obama's bold recess appointment of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, t...

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GOP Threatening Middle Class: Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Boeing, Nlrb, Video, Boeing NLRB, Tom Harkin, Labor Law, Afl-Cio, Anti-Union, Gop, Lindsey Graham, Union Busting, Unions, Labor Unions, Middle Class Unions, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Democrats and labor leaders went on the offensive against anti-union House Republicans Wednesday, accusing GOP members and business grou...

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Yes, Conservatives, There Is Sexual Harassment

Red Room | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Sexual Harassment, Herman Cain, Labor Law, Sexual Abuse, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, Sexual Harasment Herman Cain, Redroom, Women News

As an employment lawyer who has handled sexual harassment cases for 25 years, I want to make one thing perfectly clear: Yes, conservatives, there is sexual harassment. It's real. It happens every day.

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Employers Firing Workers For Facebook Rants Need To Follow Law: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Nlrb, Social Media, Labor, Firing, Twitter, Facebook, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Law, Business News

WASHINGTON -- American workers have been taking to Facebook and Twitter to passionately vent their workplace gripes, often in the most personal and vu...

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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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Company Unfairly Fired Worker Over His Facebook Posts, Say Feds

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Nlrb, Facebook Firing, Illinois Labor, Car Dealerships, Labor Law, Nlrb Facebook, Jobs, Cars, Illegal-Firing, Firing, Facebook, Facebook Fired, Labor, Fired Over Facebook, Karl Knauz Bmw, Bmw, Unions, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced today that it has filed a complaint alleging that a Chicago-area car dealership wron...

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A Transformational Strategy for American Labor

Thomas Kochan | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Labor Unions, Wisconsin, Day of Solidarity, Afl-Cio, Labor, Governor Scott Walker, Firefighters, Labor Law, Politics News

If labor fails after rebuffing the worst of these attacks, the slow decline in private‐sector unionism will be mirrored by a similar decline in the public sector that accelerates the race to the bottom for the American economy.

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Did They Die in Vain?

Alan Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, Alan Grayson, Unions, Fl-08, Rep. Alan Grayson, Grayson, Labor, Organize, Labor Unions, Right to Organize, Wisconsin Protests, Labor Law, Wisconsin Unions, Business News

The teabaggers want to "take back America." They want to take it back, all right -- take it all the way back to the 19th century.

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Women at Work: Historic Photos From the Museum of the City of New York

Lacy Schutz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Women's Rights, Women, Women's History Month, Women's Labor Union, Trade Unions, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Labor Law, National Consumers League, Afl-Cio, Labor Unions, New York City, New York City History, New York News

We celebrate Women's History Month with this selection of photographs, and observe the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, a seminal event in women's labor history.

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'Just Cause' Gone Wild: A Growing Movement Questioning Tenure and Public Union Representation

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wisconsin Senate, Wisconsin, Education, Michelle Rhee, Labor Law, Teacher Unions, Governor Scott Walker, Education Reform, Labor-Strike, Democratic Party, Labor Unions, Unions, Labor Disputes, Education News

We see that guarantee of a job forever in education and it begs us to wonder why tenure exists and if it makes sense for the future. Do we understand tenure and is it necessary?

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Sensational Cases Expose Conditions Faced by Overseas Workers Throughout Asia

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Immigrant Rights, Workers, Abuse, Rape, Economics, Labor Law, The Philippines, Immigration, Sexual Abuse, Philippines, China, Migrant-Remittances, Remittances, Labor, Labor Laws, China Labor Law, Vietnam, Undocumented-Immigrants, World News

Each year, inhabitants of the least-developed Asian countries pursue the economic benefits of overseas employment despite the high social cost at home and possibility of injury at the hands of employers abroad.

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Despite New Hailed Organizing Rules, Airline Workers Still Face Tilted Playing Field

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nmb, Efca, Labor Law, Usairways, Trumka, Business News

US Airways is determined not to see its Piedmont Airlines workers unionized. Baggage handlers at non-unionized work subsidiaries of US Airways Express, like Piedmont, make half of what their unionized counterparts.

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Wage Theft Swamps Chicagoland: Workplace Protections Are Failing Cook County's Low-Wage Workers

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Low-Wage Workers, Workplace, Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Employment, Wage Theft, Center for Urban Economic Development, Labor Law, Chicago News

What if we had a minimum wage, but nobody felt constrained to pay it? What if day-long shifts never came with a meal break?

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Solis Has Got It: Enforcing Workplace Rights for Undocumented Immigrants Protects American Citizens

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor Deparment, Law Enforcement, Minimum Wage, Labor, Undocumented Immigrants, Hilda Solis, Wage Theft, Illegal Immigrants, Department of Labor, Labor Law, Immigration, Wage and Hour, Politics News

When U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis unveiled the Labor Department's new wage and hour enforcement and awareness campaign last week, she emphasize...

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Unpaid Internships Investigated: 'Mostly Drudgery' Means Employers Must Usually Pay, Say Regulators

New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cv, Intern, Law, Court, Federal Laws, Labor Law, Human Resources, Paid Internships, Unpaid Internships, Lawsuit, Back Pay, Unpaid Interns, Resume, Internships, Nace, Work Force, Employers, Labor Laws, Colleges, Legality, Clerical Work, Universities, Business News

Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined...

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Albany's New Wage Theft Bill Could Halt the Hidden Crime Wave

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Albany, Labor, Low-Wage Workers, Workplace, Crime, Employment, Wage Theft, Labor Law, Albany Politics, New York State, New York News

Nearly a billion dollars were stolen in New York City last year. The crooks in question are corrupt bosses who steal their employees' earnings by paying less than minimum wage.

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New York's Hidden Crime Wave

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Low-Wage Workers, Wage Theft, Workplace, Crime, Employment, Labor Law, M. Patricia Smith, New York News

More than one in five workers in the city's low-wage industries was paid less than the minimum wage. More than three in four were denied the overtime pay they were legally owed.

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NLRB Still Broken: After Nearly 20 Year Battle, Workers Die Before $12 Million Settlement Reached

Art Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Employee Fre Choice Act, Stella D'Oro, Labor Law, Afl-Cio, Obama, Nlrb, Flour Daniel, Politics News

Even under President Obama, the gridlocked National Labor Relations Board is still broken in responding to anti-union abuses.

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Norquist: Specter's EFCA Opposition A Major Step To Republican Resurrection

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Choice, Republican Resurection, Arlen Specter, Specter Cloture, Grover Norquist, Afl-Cio, Labor Law, Efca, Employee, Richard Trumka, Specter Employee Free Chioce Act, Politics News

Sen. Arlen Specter's early opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act could serve as an influential pivot point by which Republicans can reclaim elect...

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China Trade Promises All Snake Oil -- Fair Trade Crucial

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fair Trade, Economy, Labor Law, Free Trade, China, Economic Policy Institute, Kai Da Toy Factory, U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, Minimum Wage, World Trade Organization, Susan C. Schwab, Olympic Games, United Steelworkers, India, Aqua Dots, Heparin, National Labor Committee, Sesame Street?S Kid K?Nex Ernie, Business News

We need fair trade. And so do Chinese workers and families, who are being abused by this so-called free trade system that benefits only CEOs and major shareholders of global corporations.

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