Labor & Employment Law 
Labor Department Scraps Child Labor Laws Under Pressure From Farm Groups – Ology
The Labor Department is scrapping new rules that would have regulated farm employment of minors, after agricultural groups protested that the restrictions would unfairly impact family farms. Also, gummiment regulation = demon juice. The laws would have …
Greenberg Traurig’s Kurt Kappes Invited to Join Litigation Counsel of America – Yahoo Finance
Kappes, co-chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice’s Non-Compete/Trade Secret … Kappes is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law and a member of the American Bar Association. Kappes received his …
Louisiana Senate committee rejects bill allowing employers to discriminate against smokers – nola.com
Senate Bill 113 would have repealed a two-decade-old law prohibiting companies from taking into account tobacco use when hiring, firing, promoting or considering any other employment action. Sen. Fred Mills, R-New Iberia, told the Senate Labor …
US: Labor Department Abandons Child Farmworkers – Human Rights Watch
The US Labor Department has caved in to Big Agriculture … In addition, in other occupations, the law prohibits the employment of children under age 14, and limits children under 16 to three hours of work a day when school … Continue reading
Labour groups plan ‘Day of Mourning’ ceremonies across Niagara – bulletnewsniagara.ca
NIAGARA — On April 28, workers, their families, labour leaders and residents in Niagara will join with others across Canada to mourn workers killed, injured or made ill on the job. They will … health and safety laws, enforcement of … Continue reading
Labor proposal would help boost home-health work force – Orlando Sentinel
Unfortunately, current federal law prevents our nation from building the home-care work force required to meet the increasing demand. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act … of home-care workers leave their jobs each year. Guaranteeing minimum …
Rural Montana Hutterite colonies fight labor laws – Missoulian
HELENA – Religious colonies of Hutterites in rural Montana are fighting the state’s attempts to impose a labor … lower job bids than many private businesses. Those businesses backed the 2009 expansion of Montana’s workers’ compensation law.
Unemployment is a special challenge for veterans – Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — Matt Pizzo has a law degree, can-do attitude … Hannah Rudstam of Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School studies veterans’ employment, and says many employers consider PTSD and traumatic brain injury …
Unions make huge pro-Falk ad buy in recall race – madison
The recall was largely motivated by Walker’s law passed last year effectively ending most … Fifteen months in, there are only 5,900 new private sector jobs and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this week that Wisconsin lost more jobs … Continue reading
Sledgehammer politics: ‘Job-killing’ slips into the Republican rhetoric about regulation – Oregonian
WASHINGTON — It is a seemingly immutable law of modern Republican rhetoric … the impact of such layoffs may be more persistent — but any new jobs created may be more significant since, in a soft labor market, otherwise unemployed … Continue reading
