Grads sue Brooklyn Law School, charging school fudged employment stats
New York Daily News
By Erin Durkin / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Brooklyn Law School grads charge in a lawsuit that the school fudged post-graduate employment stats and misled them into sinking cash into expensive degrees. The “systemic, ongoing fraud” is meant to mask the fact ...

Labor Law Change May Offer Relief For Spain's Youth
NPR
People queue outside an unemployment registry office in Madrid, Dec. 2, 2011. One in four Spaniards is out of work; about half of Spaniards in their 20s are jobless. As a result of Spain's current labor law, one-third of all workers are on temporary ...

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Farmers, ranchers strongly opposed to proposed more-restrictive child labor laws
ReporterNews.com
Teen employment on a farm or ranch "is a training ground for the next generation," Braden said. Ranch work is a trade "that takes years to develop," he said. "If this law goes through, these (ranch) youngsters will be in the house, playing their ...

California's Independent Contractor Law May Pose Liability to Agents and Brokers
Insurance Journal
By Don Jergler | February 7, 2012 A new California labor law designed to punish employers for misclassifying workers has broad legal language that can possibly impact insurance agents and brokers who knowingly advise clients on employee classifications ...

Agency Staff Seeking Employment Law Help Increases Following Agency Workers ...
CisionWire (press release)
Leading UK employment law expert www.youremploymentmatters.co.uk finds that many recruitment agencies for temporary and contract workers are utilizing a loophole in the Agency Workers Directive in a bid to get away with not treating agency staff fairly ...

Unemployment Drug Testing Bill Headed To House Floor
News Channel 7
After objections from a couple Democrats Tuesday, the full House judiciary committee passed the bill, which allows companies to turn positive test results over to the Department of Employment and Workforce without legal liability.

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Legal Alert: Unilateral Right to Amend Arbitration Agreement Makes Employment ...
JD Supra (press release)
The Fifth Circuit recently allowed a collective action claim for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to proceed and held that an arbitration agreement was unenforceable because the employer could unilaterally modify the arbitration ...

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Is California the Incubator for US Employment Law?
Corporate Counsel
And although lyricists may not have paid much attention, the Golden State has also become known for being at the forefront of employment law developments. During Tuesday's “California Dreamin'” panel, Proskauer Rose partners Harold Brody and Enzo Der ...

Indiana 'right to work' law: what it means for the pro-union Rust Belt
Alaska Dispatch
In Wisconsin, a Republican takeover of state government in 2010 led to a new law restricting collective bargaining for most unionized public employees. But in Ohio, voters last fall turned back a similar measure that had been approved by that state's ...
The Obama Labor Department Suppresses the FactsHuffington Post (blog)
What's the matter with Indiana?Salon
Labor says 'right-to-work' impact too soon to gaugenwitimes.com
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Employment law misconceptions: Wrongful termination, sexual harassment ...
newjerseynewsroom.com
In fact, there is no law that prohibits a supervisor or co-worker from being hostile. Discourtesy or rudeness is not against the law. As one court has noted, “a supervisor's coldness, lack of civility, or failure to provide employees with Christmas ...