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The New York Times has uncovered a Department of Health and Human Services memo that was drafted last spring which proposes that an individual’s gender is fixed at birth and that any changes thereafter should not be recognised by any public body …

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An out of court settlement has been reached following EEOC-backed case against a company operating in Indiana …

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Employers who wish to request 15-day processing of certain employment-based immigration benefit petitions should note that the premium processing fee for Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker and Form I-140, Immigrant Petition for Alien Workers has now been increased by 15% – from $1,225 to $1,410 …

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With effect from the 1st of November 2018, more than 350,000 employees working for Amazon across the U …

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As Google’s Waymo clocks up its 4 millionth mile of driverless journeys and Uber reaches two million miles of driverless cabs, it is now the time for employers to consider what the impact will be on personnel once this becomes a day-to-day phenomenon …

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California’s Senate Bill 1300 that takes effect on January 1st 2019 will have a huge impact on employers’ rights …

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An application has been made to the U …

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit in Denver, Colorado alleging that a trucking company has discriminated against a Californian job applicant on grounds of disability …

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Employers are now required to follow new procedures on filling job vacancies …

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South Dakota will increase its minimum wage on January 1st 2019 from $8 …

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There are a raft of LGBT-related cases now on appeal before the Federal Supreme Court, with judgements expected this Autumn …

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The highest minimum wage set by any government in the USA has just been brought into effect at airports in New York and New Jersey …

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Many employers have relied for some time on the Faragher-Ellerth  (1998) defence that if they have a sexual harassment policy in place, have communicated it to employees and if an employee has “unreasonably failed” to report any case of such harassment the employer concerned may escape liability …

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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has found in favour of 44 nursing home workers who claimed that their employer deducted 30 minute breaks from their pay, whether or not an individual actually took a break …

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has complained to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that some employers are deliberately targeting job ads to men via Facebook …

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