By Edwin S. Hopson
On March 1, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Staub v. Proctor Hospital, 562 U.S. ____, No. 09-400 (March 1, 2011). While employed by Proctor Hospital, Vincent Staub was also in the U. S. Army Reserves. Staub’s immediate supervisor and her boss were openly hostile to Stuab’s obligations as an Army Reservist ...
A federal judge in Wisconsin recently denied Chrysler Group, LLC’s motion for summary judgment to dismiss an EEOC claim of unlawful retaliation in EEOC v. Chrysler, E.D. Wis. No. 08-CV-1067. The EEOC filed a complaint against Chrysler in late 2009 on behalf of two female employees, Donna Hobbs and Michelle Zahn, who ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
According to a press release issued February 18, 2011, by National Labor Relations Board Chairman Liebman and Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon, the U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote on a “Continuing Resolution” to fund the federal government through September 30, 2011, that includes a provision ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
Earlier this month all 47 Republican members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter to President Obama urging him to withdraw the nomination of Craig Becker to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board, citing his inability to win Senate confirmation, his reversal of Bush-era Board decisions and his refusal to recuse himself in ...
By Mitzi D. Wyrick
What does your Department of Labor ("DOL") company profile look like? Did you know that the DOL has recently made its online enforcement database searchable and available to the public? In an effort at greater transparency, the DOL has posted its compliance and enforcement audit results online. Results are searchable in a variety ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On February 7, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board announced that a complaint that had been issued against an ambulance service, American Medical Response of Connecticut, asserting that the company had unlawfully discharged one of its employees for posting a negative remark about a supervisor on her personal Facebook ...
by Courtney Ross Samford
NASA’s workforce includes tens of thousands of employees. Historically, most of those employees have been civil servants who were required to undergo a background check as a condition of employment. However, as part of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations to the President in 2004, it was suggested that all ...
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 ...