News & Events
Human Resources News
- Study highlights importance of employee civility as customers are less tolerant of employee rudeness than incompetence
- Slip-ups in mediation cases can cost employers dearly, attorneys warn
- Survey finds health and productivity management programs work; weight management efforts viewed as critical by employers
- In the wake of massive layoffs, questions persist as to whether or not survivors have the ?right stuff?
- In the wake of massive layoffs, questions persist as to whether or not survivors have the ?right stuff?
- Four in 10 HR professionals say their company is prepping for Green job creation
- White House encourages discussion of workplace flexibility with launch of Work-Flex Event Starter Kit
- Study reveals value employers and HR place on professional certification
- Consumer prices dip slightly in June for third straight month
- Research finds entitled workers are more frustrated on the job and more likely to abuse co-workers
- More than one third of companies believe their intellectual property has been stolen
Employment Law
- Fremont, Nebraska suspends implementation of immigration ordinance
- SEIU and UNITE HERE end contentious inter-union dispute
- City of Fremont, Nebraska may suspend implementation of immigration ordinance
- GM worker, husband charged in conspiracy to steal trade secrets related to hybrid vehicles
- Business owners sentenced for unlawfully harboring, transporting and employing illegal aliens
- ACLU files suit challenging the legality of Fremont, Nebraska?s immigration ordinance
- ALPA offers plan to revitalize airline industry; leans heavily on better pay, streamlined regulations
- IRS seeks comments on Form 5306-A
- Connecticut DOL contacts employers, individuals about computer theft
- No fiduciary duty breach by oral misrepresentation because participants received clearly written plan documents
- California public works Compliance Monitoring takes effect August 1
- EPCU focuses on early distributions taken by persons living abroad
- Novartis agrees to settle class action sex bias suit for $175 million in monetary and non-monetary relief
- City of Fremont, Nebraska certifies ordinance that bans hiring undocumented workers
- Senate small business jobs bill contains provision allowing 401(k) rollovers to Roth accounts
Safety/OSHA News
- OSHA proposes $112,000 in fines against Home Depot USA for uncorrected and recurring hazards at West Nyack, NY, store
- OSHA cites Danbury, Conn., hospital for inadequate workplace violence safeguards
- OSHA implements highly hazardous chemicals NEP
- OSHA proposes more than $69,000 in penalties against Roll-Kraft for exposing workers to hazards
- Repeat and serious safety hazards at four Xpect Discount locations in Connecticut lead to $140,700 in OSHA fines for Ohio retailer
- Whistleblowers.gov offers quick worker access to whistleblower protection information