Workplace Discrimination

• Tort reform

  Don Jacobs | January 30, 2009 8:46 PM | 0 CommentsVancouver, WA

  The first bill that landed on Barack Obama's desk after he became president provided him with an opportunity to cure a long standing injustice. The Lilly Ledbetter bill. For over nineteen years this...

• Obama signs equal-pay bill into law.

  Wayne Parsons | January 30, 2009 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  President Obama yesterday signed his first bill into law yesterday, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. USA Today (1/30, Jackson) reports the new law makes it easier for workers to sue companies for...

• California Workers Face a Furlough

  James Cool | January 30, 2009 1:30 AM | 1 CommentVentura, CA

  The Silicon Valley Mercury News reports that a Sacramento judge has given California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the go-ahead to furlough hundreds of thousands of California government...

• Supreme Court sides with employee on retaliation case.

  Wayne Parsons | January 27, 2009 1:02 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  The Washington Post (1/27, A2, Barnes) reports, The Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that a federal anti-discrimination law protects employees from retaliation when they cooperate with...

• What is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?

  Michael Phelan | January 26, 2009 2:47 PM | 0 CommentsRichmond, VA

  On Thursday, January 22nd, the U.S. Senate passed S. 181, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Swift action is expected in the House to pass the bill and present it to President Obama, who is expected...

• Labor bill may give workers tool to fight for higher pay.

  Wayne Parsons | January 26, 2009 1:09 PM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI

  The Wall Street Journal (1/24, Trottman, Maher) reported, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, named for a woman whose attempt to sue Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. for pay discrimination was blocked...

• The Fair Pay Act: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Has No Shame

  Pete Mackey | January 24, 2009 5:00 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Yesterday, I was forwarded an e-mail from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warning me that trial attorneys are heading to Washington looking for a handout. I wondered what the Chamber thought about the...

• Construction Worker Injured At WTC Tower

  Chrissie Cole | January 24, 2009 11:19 AM | 0 CommentsNew York City, NY

  A construction worker was injured in an accident last week in the basement level of the former Deutsche Bank tower, where workers were removing debris. The site is also where two firefighters were...

• Governor Receives Criticism for Failures in California’s Workers Compensation System

  James Cool | January 17, 2009 8:46 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA

  Visit Governor Schwarzenegger’s website and you’ll see news of plans to disseminate 18 million dollars in job training grants that are meant to help get the unemployed back to work....

• Equal Pay for Equal Work

  Pete Burns | January 17, 2009 2:13 PM | 0 CommentsMobile, AL

  Senators will vote on the Lilly Ledbetter bill when it comes for a final Senate vote in the very near future. The bill supports equal pay for equal work by removing a loophole that has allowed...