- Wayne Parsons | June 19, 2009 2:01 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Workplace Discrimination
The AP (6/19) reports that in a 5-4 decision announced Thursday, the Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says...
- Wayne Parsons | January 30, 2009 12:34 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Workplace Discrimination
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...
- Wayne Parsons | January 26, 2009 1:09 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Workplace Discrimination
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...
- Wayne Parsons | January 21, 2009 11:36 AM | Honolulu, HI
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FDA & Prescription Drugs
The AP (1/21, Loven) reports the one of President Barack Obama's first acts Tuesday was to put the brakes on all pending regulations that the Bush administration tried to push through in its waning...
- Wayne Parsons | January 20, 2009 1:09 PM | Honolulu, HI
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Defective & Dangerous Products
The Chicago Tribune (1/20) reports that Obama's team is conducting a wholesale review of scores of rules and regulations set in motion by Bush administration officials as his term wound down, the...
- Wayne Parsons | January 05, 2009 12:59 PM | Honolulu, HI
Category:
Workplace Discrimination
The New York Times (1/5, A13, Pear) reports, President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are planning swift action to overturn a Supreme Court decision that made it much harder for people...
- Wayne Parsons | September 18, 2008 5:59 PM | Honolulu, HI
Category:
Workplace Discrimination
Kim Gandy, chair of the political action committee for the national Organization of Women (NOW) reports that the organization has endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket because of their support of civil...