By Edwin S. Hopson
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has just announced that it will hold a hearing on February 2, 2010, at 4 p.m. on the nomination of Craig Becker to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board, a vote to follow on February 4, 2010 at 10 a.m. Mr. Becker, who is a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and SEIU ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
Most employers, with some exceptions (such as those with 10 or fewer employees during all of the previous year), must post their OSHA 300 log from February 1, 2010 to April 30, 2010 "in each establishment in a conspicuous place or places where notices to employees are customarily posted. You must ensure that the posted annual summary ...
By Kim Koratsky
In FY 2009, the number of charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) dropped slightly (2.23 percent), but still held strong. According to recently released figures, the EEOC reported that it received 93,277 charges for the year ending September 30, 2009. This is a decrease from the 95,402 ...
By George Miller
On January 20, 2010, the White House issued a press release announcing Presidential nominations being sent to the Senate. Among them was Craig Becker for a seat on the National Labor Relations Board. As reported in earlier pieces on this blog by Ed Hopson (see below), the President first nominated Mr. Becker last year; but ...
By Glen Krebs
On December 9, 2009 Secretary Napolitano provided written testimony before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in which she testified as follows, “ICE is also auditing the books of thousands of employers suspected of relying on illegal labor to achieve an unfair advantage in the marketplace. Indeed, in a single day this past ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On December 19, 2009, President Obama signed into law a measure that provides for an expansion of the COBRA subsidy for unemployed persons and a 2 month extension of the eligibility period. The COBRA subsidy, which was set to expire December 31, 2009, requires employers to pay 65% of the cost of COBRA for eligible unemployed ...