We’ve bailed out the banks, we’ve bailed out insurance companies, we’re bailing out the auto industry … you’d think by now that even the most die-hard Libertarians among us would throw up their hands and admit that some regulation of industry is good.
Well, not Richard Epstein, a Law Professor at the University of Chicago, who, [...]
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You’d Think They Would’ve Learned …
Posted in Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, Labor and Employment, Miscellaneous, Politics, Workplace, tagged Forbes.com, Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, Richard Epstein on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Laws Enacted for 2009
Posted in Consumer, Consumer Law, Courts, Employment Discrimination, Government, Health Care, Insurance Law, Labor and Employment, Politics, tagged ADA, Americans with Disability Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, FMLA, Genetic Nondiscrimination Act, New Laws, New York State WARN Act, No-Prejudice Rule on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Long Island Business News recently published an article concerning new laws that are going into effect this year that will affect business and consumers. Here they are in capsule summary form, but you can also check out the article for more detail:
Repeal of the no-prejudice rule that allowed insurers to deny coverage if the insured failed [...]
Starbucks: Strong Coffee, Weak Labor Support
Posted in Labor and Employment, Miscellaneous, tagged National Labor Relations Board, Starbucks, Union on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Starbucks, that ubiquitous high-end coffee company based in Seattle, has long tried to convey an image of corporate social responsibility. But that reputation is being put through the wringer by a messy labor dispute with workers – known as baristas – who wish to unionize. According to Businessweek:
The National Labor Relations Board found on Dec. 23 that [...]
Giving a Much-Needed Boost to OSHA
Posted in Labor and Employment, Politics, Workplace, tagged Democratic Policy Committee, Hispanic Workers, Injured Workers, Killed Workers, OSHA, Protecting America's Workers Act, The Las Vegas Sun on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The official numbers are that 5,400 people are killed on the job each year and more than 4 million are injured. Some experts say that these statistics are inaccurate and that up to 13 million workers are injured each year. The Democratic Policy Committee website notes that hispanics workers are 12% more likely to be injured than [...]
NJ Legislature May Do Away with Employment Arbitration Clauses
Posted in Courts, Labor and Employment, tagged Arbitration, Association of Trial Lawyers of America-NJ, Chamber of Commerce, New Jersey on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More and more of a problem these days from a consumer standpoint are arbitration clauses. You see them in credit card agreements and now, more and more often, in employment contracts.
What does this mean? Well, if you are subjected to discrimination on the job or have any other employment-related grievance you will find the courthouse [...]
NY Appellate Courts Reduce Two Jury Verdicts
Posted in Courts, Labor and Employment, Tort, tagged Employment Discrimination, Jury Verdict, New York Appellate Courts, Wrongful Death on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In keeping tabs of the goings-on in New York courts, it is worth mentioning that two appellate courts, in decisions issued within 4 days of one another, substantially reduced jury verdicts.
The jury system is fundamental to our system of justice. The jury that we are accustomed to, comprised of members of the community who together resolve legal [...]
Canadian Stripper Claims Age Discrimination
Posted in Labor and Employment, tagged Age Discrimination, BFOQ, Jonathan Turley, Stripper on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jonathan Turley, the George Washington Law Professor frequently on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” writes on his blog about a story he picked up in a Canadian newspaper about a 44-year old stripper, Kimberlee Ouwroulis, who is suing a club that fired her for age discrimination.
Turley notes that the key legal question is whether age is a [...]
Hispanics Disproportionately Suffer Construction Accidents
Posted in Labor and Employment, Tort, tagged Construction, Hispanics, Mark LeWinter, New Jersey Law Journal, OSHA on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a good article in the New Jersey Law Journal, “Dying for a Paycheck: Body Count Rises as Workers Fall,” by Mark LeWinter, Esq. of Anapol Schwartz in Philadelphia, about falling accidents at construction accidents, but since it’s password-protected, unfortunately I can’t link to it.
Statistics from article, which focuses on the prevalence of injuries to [...]
Restaurant Deliverymen in NYC Win $4.6 Judgment for Wage Violations
Posted in Labor and Employment, tagged Davis Polk & Wardwell, Labor and Employment, New York Courts, Workers' Rights on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Manhattan residents, getting speedy delivery in minutes to your door is a way of life. But for restaurant deliverymen who worked at the Saigon Grill, a Chinese restaurant with locations on the West Side and Greenwich Village, it took quite a bit longer – in fact, 9 years for some – to obtain compensation for wage violations.
Finding violations of [...]
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