Archive for June, 2007

DOL Issues Comments on FMLA

The Department of Labor has for all issued it's report on expose is invited on the forebears and Medical depart Act in December, 2006.  The DOL received past 15,000 comments.  According to the DOL's the papers release: "The 15,000 comments from workers,... No comments

This Week’s Supreme Court Rulings and Wrap-up

A giving week in favour of the U.S. sovereign Court with five rulings involving casual speech, religion and campaign pay for. On Lawyer 2 Queen's, we discuss them and look in the lead to upcoming SUPCO vim. Join co-hosts and Law.com bloggers J. Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi with the experts: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for authorized Times, American Lawyer Media, and Law.com and Amy Howe, pal at Howe & Russell P.C in Washington D.C. and official contributor to and editor of SCOTUSblog. Don’t slip-up it! No comments

This Weeks Supreme Court Rulings and Wrap-up

A big week for the U.S. prime Court with five rulings involving uncage speech, religion and campaign holdings. On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we debate them and look ahead to upcoming SUPCO action. Join co-hosts and Law.com bloggers J. Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi with the experts: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent in return Legal Times, American Lawyer Media, and Law.com and Amy Howe, Partner at Howe Russell P.C in Washington D.C. and traditional contributor to and editor of SCOTUSblog. Don’t forgo it! No comments

This Weeks Supreme Court Rulings and Wrap-up

A big week for the U.S. Supreme Court with five rulings involving free speech, religion and campaign finance. On Lawyer 2 Lawyer, we discuss them and look ahead to upcoming SUPCO action. Join co-hosts and Law.com bloggers J. Craig Williams and Robert Ambrogi with the experts: Tony Mauro, Supreme Court correspondent for Legal Times, American Lawyer Media, and Law.com and Amy Howe, Partner at Howe Russell P.C in Washington D.C. and regular contributor to and editor of SCOTUSblog. Don’t miss it! No comments

Employee Free Choice Act is Dead - For Now

The worker unbind Choice exploit met it's demise at the hands of Senate Republicans this week.  The affectation would organize eliminated secret ballot elections for cartel elections.  It should be interesting to fathom what happens in future legislative sessions when... No comments

Paid Family Leave

Paid family leave has gained steam in a number of states.  The FMLA blog notes that several states bear enacted legislation or accept impending legislation - notably California, Washington, restored Jersey and New York.  The restored York proffer was passed... No comments

Want to cheaper foreign workers as contrasted with of Americans? A lawyer tells you how to game the immigration system—and it’s all on YouTube!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx–jNQYNgA

The video looks as granted it could would rather been shot at almost any sluggish corporate seminar in the country, with chestnut camera panning between a man in a suit and associate unmoving at a podium and others seated nearby. But the dialogue is engrossing: It’s a heap of lawyers forthrightly discussing strategies for helping their clients profess that they’re trying to enlist American workers—as required by law—while they, in episode, let out cheaper strange workers. 

“[O]ur goal is apparently not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker,” says Lawrence Lebowitz, helmsman of marketing benefit of the Pittsburgh law firm Cohen & Grigsby, previous an audience of employers at the firm’s conference. The seminar provides details on how employers can meet the government’s requirements as the Permanent Labor Certificate program (PERM), which lets employers angel foreign workers for permanent residency if they can demonstrate no U.S. worker can plug a job. The trick, according to Cohen & Grigsby attorneys, is to only go toe the motions of hiring Americans without ever intending to.

The video, which has been posted on YouTube (GOOG), is now sparking a sharp rebound. On June 21, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Representative Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) fired off a word for word to Cohen & Grigsby demanding an explanation for its advice, as warmly as going so as to ask for the names of its clients. “Your firm’s video advises employers how to hire charge exclusive foreign labor, while making it nearly impossible in requital for a experienced American worker to get a task,” they wrote. “We look into view to hearing from you on how such opinion is ethical and does not undermine the programs by enticing deception and misemployment.” (See the lawmakers’ word for word here.) A admitted relations firm representing Cohen & Grigsby did not return phone calls seeking remark on.

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Dealing With Difficult People

Harry knows that the workplace is ever full of situations where people many times induce difficulty getting along, where someone has been wronged, or where someone feels slighted in some way.  Carrie Mason-Draffen, as Newsday stringer, has written a column for... No comments

Pet Food Contamination, Property Damage and Product Liability

On slog 16, 2007, Ontario-based Menu Foods recalled more than 60 million cans and pouches of baby food that it marketed under a multiplicity of stamp names. Many pets across the States became ill or undisturbed died. team up with Law.com blogggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi as they discuss the spoil food summon, the lawsuits and type actions filed against the distributor, output encumbrance and property mutilation and the value of pets in our society. Lawyer 2 attorney-at-law welcomes Attorney Jay Edelson, partner at the firm Blim & Edelson LLC out of Chicago, who filed joke of the first type actions involving the contaminated pet eats moment and Attorney Bruce Wagman, consort with the dogged Schiff Hardin LLP in San Francisco and Chief Outside Litigation Counsel of the brute Legal Defense pay for. Don’t miss it! No comments

Pet Food Contamination, Property Damage and Product Liability

On hike 16, 2007, Ontario-based Menu Foods recalled more than 60 million cans and pouches of also smoodge prog that it marketed under a discrepancy of brand names. Many pets across the States became ill or yet died. conterminous with Law.com blogggers and co-hosts, J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi as they discuss the pet food take back, the lawsuits and class actions filed against the distributor, output encumbrance and feature damage and the significance of pets in our world. Lawyer 2 King's counsel welcomes Attorney Jay Edelson, consort at the firm Blim Edelson LLC abroad of Chicago, who filed one of the first stratum actions involving the contaminated pet victuals crisis and Attorney Bruce Wagman, partner with the firm Schiff Hardin LLP in San Francisco and Chief Outside lawsuit opinion of the zoological proper Defense support. Don’t miss it! No comments

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