The Obama administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) announced back in January that it was ending the requirement for unions to submit form LM-2 for financial disclosure purposes, and yesterday (Oct. 13, 2009) it made it official.
The DOL’s Office of Labor-Management Standards yesterday published in the Federal Register a recission of the Bush-era rule that had implemented [...]
Business cheered the Supreme Court’s decision in Gross v. F.B.L. Financial Services that set the bar higher for age discrimination claims by employees. Prior to Gross, employees need merely show in court that age was one factor in their adverse job decision (a firing or passing over for promotion, for instance). Now they must show [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Switzerland has jumped ahead of the United States in terms of global business competitiveness, according to the annual survey of the World Economic Forum. The People’s Republic of China has also moved into the top 30 for the first time.
Though Switzerland and the U.S. both rank high on innovation and business climate, the U.S. is [...]
The City of Vallejo, Calif., has been in bankruptcy court for quite some time now, running up a legal tab of about $5 million, but it’s made some progress in getting most of its labor contracts voluntarily renegotiated to lower its obligations.
Not so the electrical workers’ union, however. The group never agreed to a new [...]
Vice President Joe Biden even visited the factory to proclaim a great victory for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the new owners pledged to hire back everyone laid off in December 2008.
However, despite plans for Republic Windows and Doors to be back in full operation by May or June 2009, the Chicago-based [...]
Some lucky dude by the name of Paul Thomas Chester was fired by iFreedom Communications. Chester had been paid $12,000 a month plus a 5-percent commission on gross sales and also had a bunch of stock guaranteed to him.
When iFreedom fired him, Chester filed suit, which went first to an arbitrator and then to a [...]
It was kind of hard to capture what I’m trying to say in one short headline (title), but basically the trial lawyers of America are going around knocking on the doors of statehouses and legislators everywhere to expand liability laws, so they can rack up increased litigation–and paychecks. It’s what Tiger Joyce of The Metropolitan [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One can easily understand how employment continues to rise in Washington, D.C., even as every other state in the union continues to stay even (three states) or lose workers to unemployment (the rest save one), but the Peace Garden State (aka Flickertail State and Roughrider State)?
Yup, North Dakota has evidently managed to live both frugally [...]
The Mercatus Center of George Mason University has released the “first-ever” freedom rankings for all 50 states, rating each state in terms of fiscal policy, regulatory policy, economic freedom and personal freedom.
We develop and justify our ratings and aggregation procedure on explicitly normative criteria, defining individual freedom as the ability to dispose of one’s own [...]
To be honest, I’d never heard of this phenomenon before, so I thought I’d better share it. It seems that young Thai university students pay $3,000 and up to come to the U.S. and work in a fast-food joint for the honor of listing “foreign work experience” on their resumes.
Now, $3,000 in Thai current is [...]
