By Edwin S. Hopson
Eric Thompson and Miriam Regalado met while they both worked for North American Stainless (“NAS”) in Carroll County, Kentucky, and they became engaged to be married. Regalado filed a Charge of Discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against NAS claiming discrimination on account ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 21, 2011, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in 2010 union membership as a percentage of all workers including public and private sectors declined from 2009. Thus, in 2009, that percentage was 12.3, but in 2010 it dropped to 11.9. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported also that the number of ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On January 19, 2011, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that it was withdrawing its proposed interpretation titled "Interpretation of OSHA's Provisions for Feasible Administrative or Engineering Controls of Occupational Noise." The interpretation had been intended to clarify the term ...
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, 2011 to April 30, 2011 "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 Debra H. Dawahare
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has recently upheld the Kentucky Worker’s Compensation Board’s decision to overturn an Administrative Law Judge’s opinion that a roofer was an independent contractor rather than an employee. In Terry Steinrock and Glenn Coke d/b/a Glenn Coke General Contracting v. Howard C. Cook, et al
By Edwin S. Hopson
The White House recently announced that President Obama plans to nominate Lafe E. Solomon, currently the Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, to be the permanent General Counsel at the Board. Solomon has been the Acting GC since June 21, 2010. The President also intends to nominate Terence F. Flynn, a ...
By Debra H. Dawahare
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced yesterday that it had a record number of complaints filed in Fiscal Year 2010 (which ended September 30, 2010).
Of the 99,922 complaints filed with the EEOC in 2010, the top four categories were retaliation, race, disability, and age. There were 201 claims filed under ...
by Debra H. Dawahare
Several years ago, when smoking bans in public places were just beginning to be implemented, a cartoon appeared in the New Yorker, showing a person looking quizzically at an alien who had just gotten out of a spacecraft. “We’ve come here to smoke,” the alien explained.
Kentucky smokers may soon have to figure out their ...