Employee Rights in the Workplace (Oceana's Legal Almanac Series Law for the Layperson)
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Ed Balls is either a very stupid man or one blinded by ideology to the evidence of the effects of family background on children. The evidence that children who grow up without their biological fathers are not only likely to be damaged but likely to damage others is overwhelming. For the sake of balanced, healthy, achieving children and for the sake of society as a whole we should be doing everything...
Fat Man on a Keyboard (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
More grim news about adult education has just dropped into my inbox from the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning ( CALL ). There will be £240 million of " efficiency savings " (what a disgusting euphemism that is) taken from the FE adult education budget in 2010/2011. And how about this gem: Funding has been shifted away from education provided in response to adult learner demands...
Nate in Salt Lake City (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Over the last few days, I have been involved in a conversation at another blog . One of the questions was whether the Church’s recent endorsement of the Salt Lake City anti-discrimination ordinance is "entirely consistent with the Church’s prior position on these matters" as its statement indicates. The Church's current position is certainly consistent with their statement given...
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
By Ed Williams “Here in this country and in other nations round the world, laws will be changed, not to deny basic liberties but to prevent their abuse and protect the most basic liberty of all: freedom from terror.” Tony Blair, Labour Party Conference, 2 October 2001. It was at this highly charged moment a few weeks after 9/11 that Labour’s compass on universal fundamental human...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Conservative Democrats don't want to move forward on Don't Ask, Don't Tell after the last elections. There are concerns about the future of ENDA . No one in Congress is going to do anything about DOMA anytime soon. (If the votes aren't there for LGBT employment rights, there definitely aren't enough to even get close to the issue of marriage equality.) Virginia Governor Tim Kaine was one of the two...
Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Steve S. Churchill (Legal Services Center of Harvard L.S.) has just posted on SSRN his article (in the October 2009 issue of Amicus) Making Employment Civil Rights Real. Here's the abstract:The impact of laws protecting workers from employment discrimination, harassment,...
Dissenting in Part (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
In his recent address to students at BYU-Idaho, Elder Dallin H. Oaks made the following statement: [R]eligious persons will often be most persuasive in political discourse by framing arguments and positions in ways that are respectful of those who do not share their religious beliefs and that contribute to the reasoned discussion and compromise that is essential in a pluralistic society. My question...
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
From The Philadelphia Inquirer By Rick Santorum What do liberal proposals in Congress and state legislatures on marriage, health care, welfare, and employment rights have in common? All will profoundly damage two of our country’s most important rights: freedom of conscience and belief. These freedoms safeguard the foundations of the moral code by which we have successfully [...]
The Changing Attitude Blog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
It took over thirty years, but finally, in 2004, the British Parliament passed the Gender Recognition Act, and at long last, it was ‘time for T’. After years of struggle by trans activists – notably Stephen Whittle, Christine Burns and Claire McNab, of Press for Change - transsexual people in the UK, who have undergone gender re-assignment, and swear to remain in their ‘acquired...
Transadvocate Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Help transgender people who live in Massachusetts by writing a testimony supporting employment rights and Hate crimes. visit masstpc.org
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
by kos from DailyKos Tue Jun 23, 2009 With their Sotomayor strategy costing Republicans 10 points in the polling among Latinos, down to 8 percent favorable, what better next step than to see if they can bring those numbers down further? Senate Republicans turned up the rhetorical heat Tuesday on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, raising concerns about her work for a Latino advocacy group. Jeff...
SubmitYOURArticle.com (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Article by Simon King. The appeal stages and court structure in legal proceedings concerning employment rights disputes in the UK is demonstrated by the high-profile Chagger v Abbey National plc & Hopkins [2006] legal case, where the Employment Tribunal's verdict of race discrimination led to the record £2.8 million compensation award, and is due to be heard by the Court of Appeal in July...
Why Dont You Blog? (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
UNITE – the UK’s biggest trade union – has a vicar’s section. Wow. Blimey. The union is currently a bit pissed off by the state of vicarages . Some Church of England clergy and their families are living in crumbling and decrepit vicarages that are unsafe and environmentally unfriendly, according to trade union officials. Unite, the country’s largest union that represents...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
The complaint was filed in March 2009 and alleged that Mobilex violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) by failing to reemploy Frantz Julien in either his mobile radiologic technician position or in a like position upon his honorable discharge from active duty in the U.S. Army. Under the terms of the settlement, which is embodied in a consent decree that has been...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Leases that run for years after the dying skills quango is gone may cost the taxpayer millions. By Peter Kingston The final days of the Learning and Skills Council may yet be its rockiest. Not only is its disillusioned workforce considering strike action over their employment rights, but now comes the realisation that the taxpayer may have to pay nearly £42m merely so the dying quango can vacate...
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