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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Terminated Whistleblower Awarded $190K in OSHA Action; Gets Job Back Also
Firing a whistleblower has its costs, as an employer found out to its dismay when it fired a truck driver who complained about faulty brakes on his truck. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued the ruling against Interline Logistics Group … Continue reading
EEOC Clarifies Impact of ADA Amendments on Veterans With Disabilities
Employers and disabled veterans should now have a better understanding of what rights and obligations each has under the Americans With Disabilities Act. In the wake of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission updated two … Continue reading
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Tagged ADA Amendments Act, disabled veterans, reasonable accommodation
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Not an ADA Violation to Require High School Diploma, EEOC Says
Is it illegal under the Americans With Disabilities Act to require job applicants to have a high school diploma? No, according to a new series of questions and answers from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Last November, the EEOC issued … Continue reading
Employers Accepting Online Degrees, Survey Finds
Degrees earned online now put job applicants in as good a stead as those earned the old-fashioned way–in traditional classrooms. According to the Society for Human Resource Management, a growing number of HR professionals who were surveyed see individual courses … Continue reading
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Tagged online degrees, Society for Human Resource Management
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Indiana’s New Right-to-Work Law: A Precedent or One Off?
Indiana’s recent passage of a right-to-work law has stoked speculation that other states might follow its lead. The state became the 23rd state to enact right-to-work legislation–but the first do do so in the Rust Belt region. Right-to-work laws make … Continue reading
Report Details High Stress Facing Investment Bankers
Is being an investment banker bad for one’s health? Could be, according to a University of Southern California study to be published later this month. The study says that the high stress and long hours of a job in investment … Continue reading
Pennsylvania HRC Docks Employer $33,000 for Disability Discrimination
Employers that discriminate shouldn’t think that they will be let off easy by state fair employment practice agencies. Latest case in point: The Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission in late January ordered a construction firm to pay a disabled worker $33,170 … Continue reading
Federal Government Should Do Better Job in Obeying USERRA
When it comes to complying with the nation’s employment protection laws, the federal government is supported to be the model employer. It’s supposed to set the standard that all others should try to match. It seems the government has fallen … Continue reading
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Tagged federal government, reemployment rights, returning veterans
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OSHA Videos Educate Workers on Respirator Use
Employees may face respiratory hazards in a variety of industries and occupations. So it’s vital that employees in these situations know how to properly use their respirator, and whether a respirator might be defective. Fortunately, the Occupational Safety and Health … Continue reading
Comment Period Extended on Proposed Rule to Protect In-Home Care Workers
The U.S. Labor Department has extended until March 12 the period for the public to submit comments on a proposed rule to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for nearly 2 million workers who provide in-home care services. Currently, workers … Continue reading →