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Workers can't survive on the minimum wage
From Secretary of Labor Tom Perez - To create opportunity for American workers, we must ensure that they can earn enough to support a family and afford life's very basics. Tomorrow, it will be exactly four years since our low-wage workers last saw a raise. Now more than ever, we must renew the...
The broken bargain for LGBT workers
The basic American bargain is that people who work hard and meet their responsibilities should be able to get ahead. This basic bargain is not just an idea—it is embedded in laws that promote equal access to jobs and that protect workers from unfair practices. For workers who are lesbian, gay...
More on unpaid internships
The Post-Gazette's Michelle Hackeman interviewed us for this wonderful piece on unpaid internships and the Fair Labor Standard Act. As Michelle reports, college students seek internships to gain job experience and learn what cannot be learned in a classroom. That experience is supposed to give...
CNBC Special Report, Charles Lamberton discusses paid sick leave
In this CNBC Special Report, I discuss the lack of paid sick leave in the United States with CNBC's Mark Koba. The United States is the only advanced Country on Earth that does guarantee some form of paid sick leave for employees when they are sick or injured. The absence of paid sick leave...
More on employers' use of credit reports
Employers across the country are now using credit reports to as a part of their hiring procedures. Use of credit reports in the application process is becoming a standard practice. Even employers outside of the financial industry are using credit reports as a screening tool. Using credit reports...
They violated the Hatch Act
That's what we told Connor Adams Sheets of the International Business Times who interviewed us for his recent exclusive report on the politically charged, anti-Obama, anti-Democrat emails exchanged among several federal employees during work hours and using federal computer systems. As Connor...
Pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
A report released last week by two legal advocacy groups found pregnant workers are routinely discriminated against when they need accommodations due to the physical demands of pregnancy. The DC-based National Women's Law Center and Better Balance in New York found that women workers around the...
Elizabeth Warren decries lack of professional diversity on federal courts
From Think Progress/ Justice By Nicole Flatow on Jun 18, 2013 at 1:30 pm Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) brought renewed attention to the critical battle over nominees to the federal courts Thursday evening, in remarks that blasted the "corporate capture" of the federal courts, and called on those...
The Black Swan case, the FLSA and you
Check out our recent interview with the Pittsburgh Business Times on the "Black Swan" unpaid intern case. Now is the time for employers to review their internship programs and check, re-check and then check again that they are not misclassifying employees as unpaid interns. The internship...
Now Hiring (unless you have poor credit)
We were pleased to contribute some thoughts to a recent piece by Michele Bowman from Lawyers.com. Click the picture to read the full article.
More protection for moms at work
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, federal law now requires employers to provide "reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express the milk." Employers are also required to provide...
What Arlington v. FCC means for employment law
The Supreme Court's decision in Arlington v. FCC is helpful both to employees and to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In Arlington, a six justice majority held that federal courts owe "Chevron deference" to how an administrative agency interprets its own jurisdiction...
Governor says Pennsylvanians can't find jobs because they're on drugs
Embattled Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) recently took to the airwaves to answer questions why Pennsylvania has continued to shed jobs under his Administration. In an effort to explain Pennsylvania's dismal job growth, Governor Corbett said that while businesses want to hire more workers...
1 CEO = 354 workers
CEO pay was 354 times that of the average worker last year, according to the AFL-CIO's new Executive PayWatch database. The labor group asserts that this is "by far the largest pay gap in the world." In 2012, the chief executives of some of the country's largest companies earned an average of...
Privacy in the workplace?
The Constitution does not apply to private employers. This means that: Your boss can read you email. Any email you send on a work-issued computer goes through the company's servers and can be read by your employer. Your boss can listen to your phone calls at work. If they are work-related, your...