Labor & Employment Law 
Phoenix City Council to vote on labor contracts – AZCentral.com
Already members of the Original North Phoenix Tea Party have urged the City Council to reject the labor contracts. The contract for the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association … visit phoenix.gov/employment/index.html. The City Council meeting …
Aussies export jobs to NZ – Stuff
Hundreds of Australian jobs have been shifted to New Zealand as producers there try to avoid the impact of high wages, a soaring dollar and restrictive labour laws. Supermarket giant Woolworths is the latest to transfer jobs across the Tasman, … Continue reading
MOL Releases OHSA-Reprisal Guidance for Workers and Employers – jdsupra.com
Administrative Law Updates, Labor & Employment Law Updates DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on …
Federal District Court Strikes Down NLRB Rule on Notice Posting – jdsupra.com
This post was contributed by Bruce D. Bagley, Esq., a Member in McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC’s Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. Readers of this blog may recall our article from March 6, 2012, where we noted that the … Continue reading
Letter: State needs new laws to protect workers – Abington Mariner
The Employment Agency Reform Bill (HB1393 … temporary agency that disappeared into the sunset (“Labor Department: Brookline eatery violated labor laws”). In Brookline alone, the temp agency, Operations Management Group, stole over $50,000 from …
Australian jobs on the move to NZ – Sydney Morning Herald
HUNDREDS of Australian jobs have been shifted to New Zealand as local producers try to avoid the impact of high wages, a soaring Australian dollar and restrictive labour laws. Woolworths is the latest to transfer jobs across the Tasman. It … Continue reading
Jobs head across Tasman – The Age
HUNDREDS of Australian jobs have been shifted to New Zealand as local producers try to avoid the impact of high wages, the high Australian dollar and restrictive labour laws. Supermarket giant Woolworths is the latest to transfer jobs across the … Continue reading
United Kingdom: Employment Law Reform – Mondaq
The change will only affect those recruited on or after 6 April 2012. The Government has decided not to impose an automatic penalty for breaches of employment law by employers. Instead, tribunal judges will be given a discretion to consider … Continue reading
Is ’Flexicurity’ Post-Crisis Europe’s New Social Model? – Bloomberg
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sought from 2001 onward to revamp a labor market that had become too rigid, with important changes in institutional support for job seekers. And when the former socialist countries of central and Eastern …
Employers don’t have to require lunch breaks – CBS News
California law regarding meal breaks is much stricter than federal … As Steve Hirschfield, a California labor and employment lawyer, said in an interview with the Nation’s Restaurant News: What this ruling says, in essence, is that employers …
