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NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mediaplanet Publishing today released a Work-Life Balance report featured within USA Today in the New York, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles markets. The aim of the report is to create awareness around the importance of balancing work and personal life, highlighting the development and implementation of innovative business practices over recent years. Individual work-life balance is also addressed, with a feature on tips for organization and household...
With employers increasingly reluctant to supply references for former employees in order to avoid legal liability, the creation of a centralized reference pool for workers may make labor markets in the U.S. more efficient, a University of Illinois expert in labor and employment law says.Law professor Matthew W. Finkin says that not only do employees face challenges when securing references from past employers, but employers also expose themselves to lawsuits when they provide a...
Report Describes Dangerous Work Conditions, Relentless Harassment MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Undocumented women who are feeding the country with their labor routinely endure sexual harassment, wage theft and other abuses, according to a new report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The report - Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry - documents the workplace experiences of immigrant women who have come to the...
ATLANTA, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- With a growing tidal wave of wage and hour lawsuits and settlements affecting organizations of every size across a wide range of industries, compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is becoming the single largest employment law risk for companies. That's why ELI®, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of award-winning learning solutions that help organizations build and maintain productive, ethical, and legally compliant workplaces, is introducing...
Workers' challenges likely to remain after recoveryThe United States workforce, battered by an economic slowdown, now includes a record number of workers who are involuntarily working part-time due to reduced hours or the inability to find a full-time job.Hourly workers "” the majority of the wage and salary workforce "” are especially susceptible to reduced, irregular and fluctuating hours, and the myriad of challenges associated with them, according to researchers at the School of...
SAN DIEGO, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 700 construction employees who are building a new tower at San Diego's Rady Children's Hospital will be receiving $2.1 million in owed wages after officials with the Labor Commissioner's Office came to an agreement with the Hospital and its general contractor. The wage settlement comes after the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) determined the project was a public works project and was subject to prevailing wage...
ARLINGTON, Va., June 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of NLRA Rights in the Nonunion Workplace, a resource devoted to exploring the National Labor Relations Act's (NLRA's) application in the nonunion workplace and the varying decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding private sector employment issues. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090529/DC24463LOGO) Many...
Producing computer mice & webcams for Microsoft, HP and other companies New Report, Unprecedented photos Available [ http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034 ] NEW YORK, April 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Labor Committee is releasing an in-depth report, "China's Youth Meet Microsoft: KYE factory in China produces for Microsoft and other U.S. Companies." (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100413/DC85320 ) Over the course of a three-year investigation of the KYE...
LOS ANGELES, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- With a bigger workforce than any other state in the country, and a legislature and judiciary that have continually expanded the scope of workplace rights, California has long been regarded as a peculiarly pro-employee venue for employment cases. So unique that since 1999 national law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, which counts over 125 Labor & Employment attorneys in the state, has produced an annual analysis of the state's employment legal landscape...
ARLINGTON, Va., March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announces the publication of the 2009 Supplement to International Labor and Employment Laws, Volume I, Third Edition. The volume is published by BNA Books, a division of BNA, in cooperation with the International Labor and Employment Law Committee of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law. (Logo:...
