Free Answers to Labor or Employment Law Questions for Employers
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Employment Law | No Comments »Senior managers and Human Resource professionals often need quick answers to important employment related matters. As a service to PML, our friends at Constangy, Brooks and Smith have agreed to help get you the answers you need. Constangy is an employer's ...
President Obama Issues Trio of Pro-Union Executive Orders; Significant Impact on Federal Contractors
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Employment Law | No Comments »This information developed and distributed by the law firm Jackson Lewis. Organized Labor Welcomed Back to the White House In perhaps his strongest pro-labor message to date, President Barack Obama on January 30 signed three Executive Orders, which together would impact federal contractors ...
Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Employment Law | No Comments »The race is on. President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act today. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with "fair pay". What I have a problem with is the provisions of this Act that extend ...
Democrats Claim 2008 Election Victory … What Does It Mean For My Company?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008 Posted in Employment Law, Uncategorized | No Comments »Of the many facets of your business to be affected by the landslide Democratic Party victory in the 2008 elections, nonunion employers are going to be bombarded with "paybacks" to organized labor in the form of new pro-labor legislation. After ...
Unintended Consequences: Is Card Check a Mistake for Unions? by David Denholm
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Employment Law | No Comments »Labor unions as we know them in America's private sector are dying. It is a natural death. In some respects they are victims of their own success. In a much broader sense, as was so well stated by Michael ...
Right-to-Work Laws Under Attack: H.R. 6477
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Employment Law | 2 Comments »Nonunion Employers Facing EFCA, What's Up For Unionized Employers? Unions Tell Workers: Pay Us or Be Fired! A new piece of legislation was introduced on July 10 by U.S. Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA). Identified as H.R 6477, it has managed to avoid the mainstream media over ...
Supreme Court Ponders Whether to Invalidate California’s Union Neutrality Law
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Employment Law | No Comments »The Supreme Court has taken under advisement a case which may have a profound effect on labor relations throughout the United States, as a number of state legislatures and state houses, beholden to political allies in organized labor, seek to ...
Pay Attention to Today’s “Reorganized Labor”
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 Posted in Employment Law | 1 Comment »This article was written by attorneys at the law firm Jackson Lewis and printed HR Magazine. A link is provided to the full article on their website. Back in 2005, when many unions were pulling out of the huge labor federation ...