Employee Free Choice Act officially kicks off, but does anyone care?
Yesterday, the AFL-CIO delivered to Capitol Hill a petition of a claimed 1.5 million signature in support of the Employee Free Choice Act ....
3rd Circuit decision illustrates need for the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act
By Jon Hyman
Damages in discrimination cases come is several shapes – economic damages for lost wages (back pay and front pay), compensatory damages, emo...
Do you know? The FLSA’s Computer Employee Exemption
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? One of the FLSA’s lesser-known exemptions is the Computer Employee Exemption. For an employee to qualify for the computer emp...
Layoffs = lawsuits
By Jon Hyman
This headline from the New York Times says it all: “Layoffs Herald a Heyday for Employee Lawsuits.” More workers are being let go as c...
WIRTW #64
By Jon Hyman
It’s been a very busy week. We had the first employment law Supreme Court decision and the first new employment law of the new year. And, ...
Materials from KJK’s Breakfast Briefing are available
By Jon Hyman
Yesterday, blizzard and all, KJK held its inaugural Employment Law Breakfast Briefing. We covered the Top 10 Labor & Employment Issues f...
As promised, President Obama signs Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
By Jon Hyman
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/obama.fair.pay/index.html for the details.