Last night, the Senate unveiled their health care bill. You can read the full bill here [pdf], or the summery documents here. On the whole, the Senate bill looks very much like the House health care bill. It ends insurance company abuses like denying care for those with pre-existing conditions and it sets benefit standards …
The Senate Has a Health Care Bill. What’s in It? Read More »
Last month I told you how to buy union-made treats for Halloween. But now Christmas is coming, and that means even more shopping — and for a wide range of stuff beyond just chocolates. With the rise of globalization and outsourcing, the shopper’s dilemma is especially acute when buying clothes. You don’t want your holiday …
Hyatt’s efforts to woo fired housekeepers has been mostly unsuccessful, with only six taking up the hotelier’s offer of employment with the company that replaced them. Hyatt says the new jobs will extend their pay through 2010 and healthcare through May 2010. But workers aren’t buying the company’s efforts to assuage the public relations disaster …
Hyatt Continues Catching Flack over Fired Boston Workers Read More »
Sex Discrimination Against Men Violates Title VII Sex Discrimination Against Men Violates Title VII It’s not often that you see cases involving discrimination against men, but in the last few weeks the EEOC has reported two noteworthy settlements. The Sex Discrimination Case Against Lawry’s In early November, the EEOC announced a $1,025,000 settlement of a class …
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In a landmark decision, California’s Supreme Court held that two women who were not involved in a workplace affair had grounds to sue because the women who were having affairs with the boss received preferential treatment. Prison and party don’t normally go together in my mind. But after reading about the workplace where the harassment …
This morning, President Obama announced he will invite labor leaders, business executives, small business owners, economists and other financial experts to a special White House summit on jobs next month. Obama says the summit will explore ways to slow the loss of jobs and quicken the pace of job creation at a time when the …
New ADA Regulations Will Bring Necessary Change I received a call from a reporter from MSNBC a few days ago. She indicated that she wanted to ask me some questions about the new Americans with Disabilities Act regulations recently put out by the EEOC. The interview caused me to reflect on just how important the …
While we take the time this Veterans Day to honor the courage and sacrifice shown by our veterans, we should also rededicate ourselves to making sure vets have a secure and stable life after they finish their service. The U.S. Labor Department reports the unemployment rate among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans is 11.3 percent, significantly …
This article originally appeared in My Employment Lawyer on November 8, 2009. Reprinted with permission from the author. One of the powerful but also somewhat underused claims that employees who are falsely accused of any kind of misconduct at workplace have is a claim for defamation (libel and slander). Proving a defamation claim in court …
Union leaders joined President Obama in hailing the historic, if narrow, passage of major health reform legislation in the House this weekend. The bill “is a fiscally responsible bill that will cover 96 percent of Americans, end insurance company discrimination and denials of care and equip health care providers with the tools they need to …
Big Unions Hail Healthcare Bill Passage, as Senate Challenge Begins Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
