By Glen M. Krebs
No-Match Letters are back.
After a two year hiatus, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has resumed issuing the letters colloquially referred to as “No-Match Letters.” The letters inform employers that an employee’s reported name and the reported social security number do not match. From 1994 to 2007 the letters ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On April 13, 2011, it was announced by Senator Mike Enzi (R), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee, along with Senator Mary Landrieu (D.), who chairs the Senate Small Business Committee, that proposed legislation (S. 807) has been introduced to make permanent OSHA’s Voluntary ...
By Tyson Gorman
In The Southern New England Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Connecticut (AT&T East), 356 NLRB No. 118 (2011) issued March 24, 2011, a divided three member panel of the National Labor Relations Board adopted the decision of the Administrative Law Judge finding that AT&T service technicians who were wearing "prisoner" and other ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On April 12, 2011, the House Appropriations Chairman, Hal Rogers, announced the proposed details of the nearly $40 billion in spending cuts agreed to last Friday for the remainder of fiscal year 2011. Over the weekend, Rogers’ committee “went line-by-line” through each agency’s budget and came up with a detailed outline ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission posted on its website its contingency plan in the event of a federal government shutdown. Pursuant to that plan, it will continue to:
--docket new charges and federal sector appeals;
--litigate lawsuits where a continuance has not been granted;
--examine new charges to ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
In a press release issued today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents many federal workers, announced that it had filed a lawsuit in federal court on March 30, 2011, against the Obama Administration seeking information regarding the federal government’s plans for a shutdown. The union ...