Beware of the Bully: It’s Not Just on the School Playground Anymore
Robert W. Capobianco
More than a half-dozen states are currently considering laws that would make workplace bullying an unlawful employment practice and give victims the right to sue employers that fail to prevent it. Proponents of such legislation point to surveys reporting that approximately 20% of employees suffer from health issues as a result of workplace bullying, and further note the rather surprising result that half of all bullying reported is committed by women.
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Organized Labor’s Losing Streak Continues
Lee Creasman
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the United States Senate have recently delivered a “one-two” punch to organized labor. The first set back for unions was a pro-employer decision by the NLRB that may discourage the use of “salts” by labor unions to infiltrate and organize workers.
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To Re-hire or Not to Re-hire? … A Good Question
Patrick L. Lail
Your organization’s former employees can be an excellent source of future hires. Re-hiring used to be universally frowned upon. However, demographers report that younger generations tend to change jobs more than their predecessors did.
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Go Goodyear
William D. Deveney
In May, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to exempt an employee challenging her former employer’s pay decisions as discriminatory under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from the Act’s 180-day time limit for filing a charge of discrimination (subject to an extension of up to 300 days in deferral states) with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (or an equivalent state agency).
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Federal Minimum Wage Increases
On May 25, 2007 President Bush signed a war spending bill that included a Federal Minimum Wage provision. The bill, H.R. 2206, raises the federal minimum wage from the current $5.15 per hour to the $5.85 per hour. This goes into effect on July 24, 2007. On July 24, 2008, the minimum wage will be $6.55 and $7.25 an hour on July 24, 2009. Every employer of employees subject to the FLSA's minimum wage provisions must post and keep posted a notice explaining the Act in a conspicuous place in all their establishments so as to permit employees to readily read it.
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