On November 17, 2008, the EEOC released its 2008 Performance and Accountability Report with preliminary enforcement statistics for FY 2008. The commission reported a record-high 95,420 private-sector discrimination charges were filed in FY 2008, up...
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On November 5, 2008, the Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service published a final rule in the Federal Register revising the regulations requiring federal contractors to report annually on the number of their employees who are...
On October 31, 2008, the EEOC announced that New Mexico is the first state government to sign an agreement with the EEOC to formally resolve disputes through alternative dispute resolution. On November 19, 2008, Delaware became the second state...
On October 23, 2008, the EEOC announced that WorldMark by Wyndham will pay $370,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the EEOC that alleged the company failed to stop the manager of one of its hotels from sexually harassing five young...
Senate Bill Introduced To Prevent Employers From Misclassifying Employees As Independent Contractors
by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsOn September 29, 2008, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduced a new bill (Employee Misclassification Prevention Act, S. 3648) that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to clarify that...
by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsEEOC Commissioners Stuart Ishimaru and Christine Griffin submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to its August 25, 2008 notice of proposed rulemaking...