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Truck drivers get a break from DC court
Better late than never, here’s a report from week before last on a development closely watched by trucking industry employers.
Reuters reports: “U.S. Court Throws Out New Trucker Driving Rules”
A federal appeals court . . . threw out new and controversial U.S. government regulations that had allowed commercial truck drivers to spend more time on the [...]
EEOC releases "fact sheet" on ADA and epilepsy
The EEOC just released materials on ADA and epilepsy, including a Q & A on the subject.
These materials would be useful for any company. I find that they serve as a useful review of basic aspects of ADA as well.
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Employment Discrimination and Statistics: The 4/5’s Rule
The Uniform Guidelines On Employee Selection Procedures: The Basis for the Four-Fifths (80%) Rule
In 1978, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and the Civil Service Commission adopted a set of guidelines, entitled the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures. (I refer to them as the Guidelines for the [...]
Massive health care reform roundup; fitting current efforts into coalition report framework
As I recently summarized, the The National Coalition on Health Care agreed on the following five principles or goals for a reformed health care system:
Health Care Coverage for All
Cost Management
Improvement of Health Care Quality and Safety
Equitable Financing
Simplified Administration. . .
The Coalition was emphatic that reform must not be [...]
Upcoming topics for the mini-series on employment discrimination and statistics
An upcoming topic will be the four-fifths/80% rule heavily used for tests…and of course, are you dying to learn more about
statistical significance for multivariate statistics??
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