Is One Watchdog Better Than Two?
The Trump administration wants to combine the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with another federal watchdog agency—and both worker and business groups are worried. The issue got attention on...
View ArticleReport Targets Walmart Policies
Walmart’s absence control program “punishes workers who need to be there for their own families,” according to a new report released late last week. The report, “Pointing Out: How Walmart Unlawfully...
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Downsizing the DOL
As many expected, the Department of Labor didn’t escape President Trump’s 62-page budget plan (released yesterday) unscathed. But the extent of the proposed cutbacks should certainly raise a few...
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Sacrificing Safety or Creating Jobs?
The fate of an Obama-era piece of legislation designed to improve worker safety appears to be anything but safe. On Monday, the U.S. Senate voted by the slimmest of margins—49 to 48—to eliminate the...
View ArticleDOL Wants to Delay Fiduciary Rule
The U.S. Dept. of Labor is seeking to delay the implementation of a rule that is intended to protect the best interests of retirement savers but has drawn the ire of many in the financial-services...
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The Democratic Party Platform: A Cheat Sheet
Turnabout is fair play — at least when it comes to politics in 2016. Last week I gave you a rundown on HR-related provisions in the Republican Party platform. Now it’s time for the Democrats....
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A Real Account of Long-Term Unemployment
It’s been awhile since we’ve reported on efforts to solve the nation’s long-term-unemployment problem. (Here are our HRE Daily posts and here are our HREOnline.com news analyses examining the problem...
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DOL Gives a Holiday Gift to Parents
I’m not usually one for repeating content here one week to the next, but I simply had to share news of this pretty sizable gift while we’re all in the midst of the gift-giving season. In an...
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DOL Mandates Pay Transparency
On the heels of President Obama’s recent executive order requiring federal contractors to provide at least seven days of paid sick leave, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance...
View ArticleThe Feds’ War on Employee Misclassification
Seeking to clarify the issue of just what it is that distinguishes an independent contractor from an employee, the Department of Labor yesterday issued its first Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) of...
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Explaining the Unpaid Internship Enigma
If an intern is for all intents and purposes a regular employee, then should he or she still be considered an intern? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently attempted to answer this...
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Are We On the Path to Paid Sick Leave?
Paid sick leave seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, from Hillary Clinton and Thomas Perez to the leadership at Chipotle and McDonald’s. For example, you may remember Secretary of Labor Perez...
View ArticleH-1B: Disney Retreats; DOL Investigates
The Walt Disney Co.’s Disney ABC Television Group appears to be backing off from a layoff announcement two weeks ago, in which it had told a group of approximately 35 of its IT workers that their jobs...
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More in the Coffer to Help Prisoners Find Jobs
It wasn’t that long ago (little more than a month) that I was blogging about an announcement by the U.S. Department of Labor that it was creating a $5 million funding opportunity to link inmates to...
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Hitting the Road to Promote Paid Leave
Last week, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez told the Washington Post that “so much of what becomes law in Washington starts out as an experiment in different states.” For the next month or so, Perez...
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The Democratic Party Platform: A Cheat Sheet
Turnabout is fair play — at least when it comes to politics in 2016. Last week I gave you a rundown on HR-related provisions in the Republican Party platform. Now it’s time for the Democrats....
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A Real Account of Long-Term Unemployment
It’s been awhile since we’ve reported on efforts to solve the nation’s long-term-unemployment problem. (Here are our HRE Daily posts and here are our HREOnline.com news analyses examining the problem...
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DOL Gives a Holiday Gift to Parents
I’m not usually one for repeating content here one week to the next, but I simply had to share news of this pretty sizable gift while we’re all in the midst of the gift-giving season. In an...
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DOL Mandates Pay Transparency
On the heels of President Obama’s recent executive order requiring federal contractors to provide at least seven days of paid sick leave, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Feds’ War on Employee Misclassification
Seeking to clarify the issue of just what it is that distinguishes an independent contractor from an employee, the Department of Labor yesterday issued its first Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) of...
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