First Tribune Handbook Violator: Its Creator
Published by James Peters February 6th, 2008 in Policy : Opinion, RetaliationOk, so this topic has been blogged to death by not only me, but the blawgosphere as a whole. However, I just received this update to the story.
Sam Zell, the head of Tribune Co., met with his employees/journalists last week at the Orlando Sentinel, one of the newspapers covered by his idiotic/inspiring (depending on [...]
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Ron Paul on Employee Rights (Part 3): Darn Those Pesky Civil Rights Laws
Published by James Peters January 17th, 2008 in Discrimination, Policy : OpinionIn this third and final installment in our series on Ron Paul’s comments about employee rights in his book Freedom Under Siege, we examine his views on civil rights legislation in general, which can be found in several sections of his book, but is best summed up with the following quote found on page [...]
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Ron Paul on Employee Rights (Part 2): Unattractive Women Need Not Apply
Published by James Peters January 16th, 2008 in Discrimination, Policy : OpinionThis is the second in our series of posts based on Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s musings on employee rights in his book Freedom Under Siege. This installment’s “Paulism” can be found on page 17 of the book:
The idea that the social do-gooder can legislate a system which forces industry to pay men and women [...]
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Ron Paul on Employee Rights (Part 1): Sexual Harassment-What’s the Big Deal?
Published by James Peters January 15th, 2008 in Discrimination, Harassment, Policy : OpinionI have tried to tune out most of the political primary hysteria because I (1) made up my mind about who I would be supporting in the election long ago and (2) I live in California, so my opinion is not really that important at this stage.
Today I happened to stumble across some of Ron [...]
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Schwarzenegger “Terminates” Employee Rights (Part 3)-Family Values?
Published by James Peters November 5th, 2007 in Discrimination, Medical Leaves, Policy : LegislationThis is our final installment in a series dealing with employee rights laws that California’s legislature passed in 2007, but which Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed last month before they could take effect.
SB 836
Senate Bill 836 was heralded nationwide as the first law prohibiting employer discrimination against employees based on their “family status”.
For example, discrimination against employees [...]
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Schwarzenegger “Terminates” Employee Rights (Part 2)-Difficult Choices
Published by James Peters November 4th, 2007 in Medical Leaves, Policy : LegislationThis is the second post in a series on several very important bills the California legislature passed in 2007 to protect employees that the Governor vetoed at the last possible moment last month.
SB 537
Despite supporting a strong new law providing protected leave to military spouses whose husbands or wives are on leave from service, the [...]
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Schwarzenegger “Terminates” Employee Rights (Part 1)-Why?
Published by James Peters November 3rd, 2007 in Policy : Legislation, Wages : OtherAs the end of the year approached, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed several employee protections the California legislature passed in 2007. While he felt it was important to give full protections to military spouses whose husbands or wives were on leave, he deemed other employees to be less deserving of similar rights.
This is the first in a [...]
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California Passes Spousal Military Leave Law
Published by James Peters November 2nd, 2007 in Discrimination, Medical Leaves, Policy : Legislation, RetaliationCalifornia has passed a law providing employees whose spouses are on active military duty with protected leave from work to be with their spouses when they are on leave from duty.
Governor Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 392 into law last month and it became effective immediately. The Bill has two main components:
An employer of more [...]
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Why Wal-Mart Employees Should Consider NOT Accepting Settlement
Published by James Peters January 26th, 2007 in Wages : OvertimeYesterday, it was reported that Wal-Mart had reached a settlement with the Department of Labor to settle unpaid overtime claims by its employees.
The odd thing about this settlement is that Wal-Mart turned itself in to the Department of Labor and negotiated a quick settlement with the government and the employees had no say in what [...]
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