The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that Ronald S. Cooper, General Counsel of the EEOC, will return to private practice. He will rejoin the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP in its Washington DC office. Deputy General...
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March 02, 2009
March 02, 2009
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that it will begin releasing monthly data on the employment and unemployment of persons with disabilities. The report will be based on information collected in the Current Population Survey, which provides...
March 02, 2009
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has re-introduced a bill (“Family-Friendly Workplace Act,” H.R. 933) that would give private sector employees the option of taking paid time off as compensation for overtime hours worked, or “comp time.” The bill...
March 02, 2009
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney has introduced the proposed Family and Medical Leave Enhancement Act (H.R. 824) that would allow employees to take, as additional leave, parental involvement leave to participate in or attend their children’s and...
February 24, 2009
by Fred Satterwhite, Senior Consultant, DCI Consulting Group, Inc.The Senate confirmed Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis (D-CA) as President Obama's Secretary of Labor with an 80-17 vote this afternoon.Questions from Republican lawmakers regarding Solis'...
February 02, 2009
President Obama signed the long anticipated Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 into law on January 29, 2009 at a White House signing ceremony. Later that day Acting EEOC Chairman Stuart Ishimaru released a statement congratulating Congress and...
DHS has posted a notice on their website stating that federal contractors and subcontractors will be required to begin using the E-Verify system starting May 21, 2009 to verify their employees’ eligibility to legally work in the U.S. A notice of the...
February 02, 2009
The Department of Labor Wage and Division has announced that it recouped back wages totaling $185,287,827 for 228,645 workers in FY 2008.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has released business case information – The Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People With Disabilities and ODEP’s revised Business Case for Hiring...
February 02, 2009
On January 6, 2009, Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) introduced the “Illegal Immigration Enforcement and Social Security Protection Act of 2009,’’ which would increase penalties for employers that hire undocumented workers. Employers that knowingly hire...
January 30, 2009
Washington, DC – Paul Wells, Compensation Consultant at The Boeing Company, was recently elected and named Chair of the Board of The Center for Corporate Equality, according to Patricia Schaeffer, Executive Director for the national nonprofit...
