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Former DOL Secretary Elaine Chao has returned to The Heritage Foundation as a Distinguished Fellow, according to a foundation press release. She will concentrate on international policy issues as well as labor policy.

DOL Secretary Hilda Solis has issued a news release on a COBRA subsidy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA provides a 65 percent tax subsidy for the cost of health benefits for the unemployed for up to nine months,...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The Center for Corporate Equality (CCE) today released a comprehensive report analyzing enforcement results compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) on their equal employment...

The Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), a nonprofit employer association based in Washington DC, was quoted in a special article published in BNA Daily Labor Report® (subscription required) featuring the outlook for the OFCCP in 2009. A summary of...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that President Obama appointed Stuart Ishimaru as Acting Chairman and Christine Griffin as Acting Vice Chair of the commission. Ishimaru succeeds Naomi C. Earp, whose term as...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Pitt Ohio, an interstate trucking firm, had agreed to pay $2.43 million to a class of women to settle a class action lawsuit. The EEOC alleged the company denied a class of...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC will pay more than $75,000 to resolve a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit that alleged the company permitted a co-worker at an Iowa drywall...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that J.C. Penney Corporation Inc. will pay $50,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit that alleged the company discriminated against an African American employee, who worked as a...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that two movie production companies will pay $75,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit that alleged the companies refused to hire a pregnant job applicant for a position...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Murphy Ford Inc., a car dealership located in Chester, Pennsylvania, will pay $244,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. The lawsuit alleged the dealership’s...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Valley Isle Motors, Ltd, a car dealership in Maui, discriminated against an employee by failing to hire him for a salesperson position because of a perceived mental disability....

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Robertson Sanitation, a Phoenix-based trash hauling, recycling and disposal company that operates in Georgia, will pay $475,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit. The EEOC...