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 ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
The U.S. Senate on December 24, 2009, refused to confirm the nomination of Craig Becker whom President Obama nominated to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board. Becker, a Democrat and associate general counsel for the Service Employees International Union and AFL-CIO, was one of a three-person package nominated on ...
By George J. Miller
As if the flood of information and guidance from OSHA and the CDC were not enough to help employers and employees deal with the threat of H1N1 in the workplace, Congress has now gotten into the act. On November 3rd, the Emergency Influenza Containment Act (H.R. 3991) was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On December 7, 2009, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis laid out her “vision” in the Fall 2009 Regulatory Plan for the Labor Department’s mission of ensuring “there are good jobs for everyone.” [Emphasis in the original]. Secretary Solis described a “series of 12 specific strategic outcomes” which she hopes ...
By Edwin S. Hopson
On December 10, 2009, the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved en masse eight persons nominated by President Obama to fill positions at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Rehabilitation Services Administration at the Department of Education and the Women’s Bureau ...
By Debra Dawahare
In a published decision issued on November 20, 2009, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has upheld the Bullitt Circuit Court’s award of over $6 Million to two former employees of the Mt. Washington McDonald’s. In its decision in McDonald’s Corporation v Ogborn, the court considered a truly bizarre situation.
Between 1994 and ...