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Flight attendants working for Southwest airlines have narrowly ratified a new two-year pay deal a year after they heavily rejected a previous deal …

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The Governor of the State of California signed a new bill with effect as of January 1st 2017, that no longer allows employers to enquire about current or future employees’ juvenile convictions …

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Higher paid Americans will have to pay significantly more in payroll taxes next year due to an $8,700 rise in the upper limit on social security charges …

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Employers in California may be under some pressure to introduce gender-neutral “bathrooms” (toilets) following new legislation concerning public facilities …

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The Governor of the State of California, Jerry Brown, has signed a bill extending the state’s equal pay protection law to race as well as genger, with effect from 2017 …

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Following several high profile Supreme Court cases in Florida, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has agreed that worker compensation insurance may rise on December 1st by 14 …

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The requirement of a company to require an employee to submit to a comprehensive medical examination or pay 100% of the health insurance premium was put to the test before a Federal court in Wisconsin recently …

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Following several high profile Supreme Court cases in Florida, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has agreed that worker compensation insurance may rise on December 1st by 14 …

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California continues to lead the way in being the most legally awkward state in the USA in which to employ anyone …

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A private company’s rights to opt-out of the state workers compensation insurance in Texas is now being questioned in the aftermath of a Supreme Court decision in Oklahoma …

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The United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled that employers may ban employees from wearing the dreadlocks hairstyle …

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Company operations in transport and energy-intensive sectors across the eastern USA could be affected by a major rupture in an interstate gasoline pipeline that has taken place in central Alabama …

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A so called “cat’s paw” offence originally meant one that made employers directly responsible for discriminatory dismissals of employees – if their decisions were based on discriminatory views held, and recommendations made, by their supervisory employees …

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In recent years the use of payroll debit cards has become increasingly popular, especially in the USA where over 11 million workers do not have a bank account …

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Whilst no-one doubts the importance of protecting the security of sensitive data, data protection legislation has progressively extended its bureaucratic tentacles into every sphere of business and become a huge burden, especially to multinationals …

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