Author name: max cyril

In an effort to demonstrate just how committed this Administration is to helping businesses at the expense of workers’ health, happiness, and financial security, last week the White House forced opponents of overtime reform to abandon their efforts to include in an appropriation bill prohibitions enacted by both houses of Congress preventing overtime changes from …

Heads Workers Lose; Tails Workers Lose: Effort to Stop New Overtime Regulations Stalls Read More »

A traditional strike, where employees refuse to work until a satisfactory labor contract has been reached between their union and their employer, has always been one of the most effective weapons that a union has to encourage an employer to accede to union demands. A recent news article, however, in analyzing the current grocery workers’ …

Labor Strikes: Effective Strategy or Outmoded Process? And Does It Matter with Wal-Mart Around? Read More »

Senate Republicans unhappy with the progress of certain extremist federal judicial nominees now have a new claim to make: that Democrats opposing the nominations of Janice Rogers Brown, Carolyn Kuhl, and Priscilla Owen are engaging in sex discrimination by refusing to allow these nominations to move forward. While this technique to date has not been …

This Time, It’s Sex Discrimination: New Claims of Bias on Judicial Nominees Read More »

It’s time to kick it up a notch, as Emeril would say. Tomorrow, Thursday, November 6, is a Virtual Lobby Day, designed to encourage the passage of the Civil Rights Tax Relief Act (House version/Senate version). Jointly cosponsored by Workplace Fairness and our allied organization, the National Employment Lawyers Association, Virtual Lobby Days are designed …

Virtual Lobby Days…Make a Difference from the Comfort of Your Own Home Read More »

Despite all the happy news on jobs these days coming out of Washington, there’s a whole lot of misery going on out there where work is concerned. Studies show a significant number of people who are staying in jobs solely because of the difficult economy, and not because they’re satisfied with their current jobs. And …

Unhappy If You Have a Job, Miserable if You Don’t Read More »

They just keep coming: one of the latest (but unlikely to be the last) way-out-of-the-mainstream judicial nominees to come before the Senate Judiciary Committee is Janice Rogers Brown, who has been nominated to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court that is widely viewed as the second most influential court in the country after …

Yet Another Out-of-Step Judicial Nominee: Janice Rogers Brown Read More »

Some good news today from the U.S. Senate: today, in a 59-39 vote, the Senate lacked the 60 votes necessary to stop a Democratic-led filibuster which prevents the Class Action Fairness Act (S 1751) (pdf version) from moving forward. The vote is a victory for workers everywhere, especially those who work for larger employers, who …

Class Action Fairness Bill Defeated in Senate: Victory for Workers Read More »

Every day it seems we hear about a new strike, and more often than not, the issue is not primarily wage increases any more. The central issue of many labor negotiations right now involves health benefits, and whether workers can rely on their employers to have most of their health care expenses covered by employer-provided …

It’s About Health Benefits, Stupid! Read More »

It is rare to find unanimity in the U.S. Senate, and almost unheard of to find unanimity on a bill that benefits workers more than businesses and insurers. Yet it happened today in the Senate, which unanimously (in a 95-0 vote) passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (S 1053), a bill that would bar employers …

A Bill For People With D.N.A.: Senate Passes Genetic Non-Discrimination Bill Read More »

A recent decision on the taxability of damage awards highlights the significant differences in taxes paid by workers who successfully sue their employers, based upon little more than where they live. In Banks v. CIR, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that workers do not have to pay taxes on the amount of the …

New Tax Decision Reinforces Good Law for Workers in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky & Tennessee Courts Read More »