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Perez Confirmed as Labor Secretary
This just in! The U.S. Senate, in a vote of 54-46, has just confirmed Thomas E. Perez as Secretary of Labor. This Los Angeles Times story notes that the vote was “the narrowest result for any of...
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Perfect Time to Celebrate Older Workers
What better time to personally invite you to read our Sept. 16 Human Resource Executive® cover story, “The Age Factor,” than today, the beginning of National Employ Older Workers Week, a week...
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A New Online Avenue for Whistleblowers
Just before Thanksgiving, the Leader Board highlighted some figures from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s latest report to Congress, showing more whistleblower complaints being brought to the...
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Considering the Effects of the ACA by Industry
A release today from the National Association of Manufacturers suggesting its members are already beset with struggles over implementing the Affordable Care Act got me wondering: How is this new law...
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Good Reads About Work
The Department of Labor is seeking comments. No, not about some new wage-hour or workplace-safety rule. It wants your book recommendations! In case you missed it, the DOL, in partnership with the...
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DOL Budget Emphasizes Enforcement
The U.S. Department of Labor has released the president’s fiscal year 2015 budget request, which seems to sharpen the DOL’s focus on enforcing federal employment and labor regulations. The release...
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Obama Tackles Overtime
Tammy McCutchen woke up to a bit of a shock yesterday morning: She learned the revised overtime regulations she helped rewrite in 2003 and 2004, as the Department of Labor’s wage-and-hour administrator...
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Low-Wage Workers: Trapped in a Catch-22?
It’s no secret that employees are hungry for career development. In survey after survey, it almost always ranks near the tops of their lists of sought-after employer offerings. But as just-released...
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Taking a Timeout for Safety
As part of what U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez has described as an “unprecedented event,” employers across the country are expected to join the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
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HRPA’s Take on Obama’s Executive Orders
The HR Policy Association just released a letter to U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez expressing its concerns over President Obama’s use of executive orders. In the letter, the...
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New Year Brings New Reporting Requirements
Throughout this past year, we’ve told you about some of the steps the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been taking in its effort to improve workplace safety. In June, for example,...
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Second Stand-Down for Safety is Set
Citing even more compelling reasons this year than last for getting the construction-safety message out, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has announced it...
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Obama’s New TechHire Initiative
President Obama has announced the Department of Labor’s TechHire initiative as part a new campaign to work with communities to get more Americans rapidly trained for well-paying technology jobs....
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Hitting the Road to Promote Paid Leave
Last week, Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez told the Washington Post that “so much of what becomes law in Washington starts out as an experiment in different states.” For the next month or so, Perez...
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More in the Coffer to Help Prisoners Find Jobs
It wasn’t that long ago (little more than a month) that I was blogging about an announcement by the U.S. Department of Labor that it was creating a $5 million funding opportunity to link inmates to...
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H-1B: Disney Retreats; DOL Investigates
The Walt Disney Co.’s Disney ABC Television Group appears to be backing off from a layoff announcement two weeks ago, in which it had told a group of approximately 35 of its IT workers that their jobs...
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Are We On the Path to Paid Sick Leave?
Paid sick leave seems to be on everyone’s mind lately, from Hillary Clinton and Thomas Perez to the leadership at Chipotle and McDonald’s. For example, you may remember Secretary of Labor Perez...
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Explaining the Unpaid Internship Enigma
If an intern is for all intents and purposes a regular employee, then should he or she still be considered an intern? The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently attempted to answer this...
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The Feds’ War on Employee Misclassification
Seeking to clarify the issue of just what it is that distinguishes an independent contractor from an employee, the Department of Labor yesterday issued its first Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) of...
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DOL Mandates Pay Transparency
On the heels of President Obama’s recent executive order requiring federal contractors to provide at least seven days of paid sick leave, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance...
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