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Vulgar Language Must Be Viewed in Context in Sexual Harassment Case: Court
Said one attorney, in cases where off-color language is used, the ruling signifies the importance of finding out 'how that language was used to determine what steps the employer should take and how they should go about investigating' it and imposing discipline.
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Lawyers Say Health Care Law Will Spur Employees to Sue Over Technical Issues
At least four federal agencies (the IRS, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services and even the Department of Housing and Urban Development) are writing hundreds of pages of regulations that will apply as health care reform is implemented over the next six years.
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Most U.S. Workers Have Little Faith in Employers' Natural Disaster Preparation
A new study suggests that the vast majority of U.S. workers have little confidence in their employers' preparation for dealing with natural disasters.
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Workers' Compensation Audit Reviews Can Reveal Costly Errors
Employers that are looking to reduce comp premiums find clerical slips that can cost them dearly.
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Court: Three Unwanted Touches in Five Months Constitute Sex Harassment
One attorney familiar with the case says the case illustrates that employers need to conduct an investigation 'in any situation that involves intimate touching.'
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Retirement Savings Tax Breaks Safe—for Now
At a House hearing, neither Dems nor Republicans seemed eager to tinker with main selling point of 401(k)s and IRAs.
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Obesity Problems Weigh on Workers' Comp
Not only are obese workers comp claimants likely to miss more work days than healthy-weight co-workers with similar injuries, obese workers are likely to have higher medical costs and are more likely to become permanently disabled, research has shown.
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FTC Warns Mobile App Marketers Providing Background Checks
The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters to marketers that the agency says may be providing criminal background information to employers through the marketers' background screening applications—an activity the FTC says may violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
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Court: Warehouse Can't Fire Contract Workers
A California judge ruled the workers, who are suing the warehouse and staffing provider, would likely be able to prove the firing was retaliatory.
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Treasury's Lifetime-Income Proposals Lean Heavily on Education
Observers find proposals to be well intended, but add that workers have a lot to learn on annuities.
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Appeals Court Overturns Most of Dismissal in Same-Sex Harassment Suit
More men are alleging sexual harassment in the workplace, a trend many attorneys expect to continue.
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Recruit Co. Lands Staffing Firm for $410 Million
It marks the latest large-scale acquisition for Tokyo-based Recruit, and will result in Advantage Resourcing divesting most of its non-Japanese operations.
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SHRM Survey Reveals Help Wanted Sign is Out—Sort Of
Companies this past year began hiring replacements for laid-off workers, but the percentage hiring for new jobs took a nosedive.
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PBGC Deficit Hits Record $26 Billion
As was the case in the prior fiscal year, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Fund did not incur any multibillion-dollar losses in fiscal 2011.
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Half of Working Women Who Gave Birth did not Receive Paid Maternity Leave: Census
Two-thirds of women who were given maternity leave were able to return to work within a year of their first pregnancy, according to the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington.
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New Tool Gauges Cost Benefits When Hiring Disabled Workers
The tool focuses on three federal tax incentive programs: the Work Opportunity Credit, which can provide a maximum $2,400 tax credit; the Disabled Access Credit, which helps small businesses defray the cost of providing special equipment; and the Architectural Barrier Removal Tax Deduction, which...
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Poll Says Overweight Workers Miss Millions More Days of Work
Their missed work results in about $153 billion in lost productivity annually, according to data collected this year by Washington-based Gallup.
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ADP Bets Big on HR Software by Adding Suite of Services
The traditional back-office service provider joins the likes of Oracle, SAP and SuccessFactors in a crowded HR management software field with the unveiling of Vantage HCM.
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Out of Site: Remote Possibilities
More employers are benefiting from a mobile workforce through improved productivity, increased employee satisfaction and reduced costs, but they also face new management challenges.
