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On December 18, 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the signing of a Universal Agreement to Mediate (UAM) with Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. to informally resolve workplace disputes through Alternative Dispute...

On December 23, 2008, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced that it had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging the legality of an executive order and related federal procurement law that requires federal...

On December 19, 2008, a final rule was published in the Federal Register giving veterans of the U.S. armed services and spouses of some veterans’ entitlement to receive priority for DOL employment, training and placement services within job training...

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...

On October 23, 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had released a supplemental final “no-match” rule. The DHS regulation, which was originally proposed in June 2006 and issued in August 2007 as a Final Rule, clarifies what...

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 November 6, 2008, the EEOC announced its headquarters and Washington DC field office will relocate to a new address in Northeast Washington effective November 19. The offices will be located at 131 M Street, NE, Fourth Floor, Suite 4NWO2F,...

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 AffairsA bill entitled “Protect Citizens and Residents from Unlawful Raids and Detention Act (S. 3594) was introduced September 25 by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). The purpose of the bill is to provide...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a new question-and-answer guide aimed at promoting the hiring and advancement of individuals with disabilities in federal government employment. While this guide is specifically directed at...

by Patricia Schaeffer, Vice President-Regulatory AffairsThe U.S. Department of Labor released its seventh annual report (“U.S. Department of Labor’s 2007 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor”) describing the efforts of 141 countries and territories to...