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Latest Wal-Mart labor story
Reuters reports NLRB is dismissing all unfair labor charges filed against Wal-Mart in a case in Lake Elsinore, California in which a 2001 union election for employees of Wal-Mart Tire and Lube Express was blocked at the last minute after union leaders filed charges claiming the company had coerced employees into rejecting union membership. [...]
Good analysis of jobless recovery
Christian Science Monitor today reports: “Why hiring languishes even as economy gains.”
Summary: “multiple factors are at work, some of which could affect the shape of future economic cycles as well.”
1) “Economy’s growing orientation toward services . . . [which] can soften the blow of recessions, as people continue getting their hair done and seeing healthcare [...]
Older workers: survivors, not victims, in jobless recovery
New York Times article: “Older Workers Are Thriving Despite Recent Hard Times” says workers age 55 to 64 are “the only group thriving in the jobless recovery.”
Statistical support: “a higher percentage of those aged 55 to 64 hold jobs today than when the economy plunged into hard times in early 2001. . . [and] older [...]
Using voice recognition software
I thought I’d diverge from employment law just a minute to promote one of my favorite technologies.
I’ve been using Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition to do almost all my initial document preparation for quite a few years.
Never got to be a fast, all-fingers typist, and got tired of waiting for dictation to come [...]
Permalinks added as I expand my blogging knowledge
I’ve now added permalinks to the bottom of each post. If you click on one, you can copy the unique url for the particular post from your browser’s address bar to your blog post, website, e-mail, etc.
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A.F.L.-C.I.O. begins group for workers not in unions
New York Times reports on this development:
“Hoping to increase its political clout, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. announced yesterday that it was creating a novel organization for nonunion workers who agree with the labor movement on many issues and want to campaign alongside labor on those issues.”
The organization is to be called “Working America” Its website quotes [...]
Allstate age discrimination class action
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s article: “Georgian’s age bias suit could open floodgates” details agents’ efforts to pursue class action against Allstate Insurance for actions to convert employee agents to independent contractors — as a human-interest story from the perspective of the ringleader. Here’s an article indicating EEOC is litigating the case. Here’s a press [...]
Missouri court enforces employee contract to repay training costs out of final pay if employee quits after less than four years
In Board of Police Commissioners of St. Louis v. Kriska (Mo. App. E.D. 08/26/03), the court affirmed enforcement of a Police Training Agreement requiring that a trainee reimburse the employer pro rata for training costs if he resigned his employment within forty-eight months after completing training and accepted other law enforcement employment within one year.
The [...]
