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U.S. Senate passes HIRE Act News reports say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects the House will soon consider the Senate-passed $15 billion jobs bill (H.R. 2847), known as the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, that passed the Senate by a 70-28 vote on Feb. 24. The bill passed by the Senate and [...] A New Law Prevents Defense Contractors from Arbitrating Employment Disputes with Employees and Subcontractors On December 19, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act. In this $63 billion spending measure is a provision, known as the “Franken Amendment” because it was originally introduced by Senator Al Franken of [...] Obama signs legislation The FMLA has been amended. President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010 at 2:30 p.m. EST October 28. The full text of Senate bill signed by the President can be found here. Section 565 of the Act amends the FMLA by greatly expanding the availability and use of military [...] Federal Minimum Wage Increase The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division reminds employers and employees that the federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 on Friday, July 24, 2009. With this change, employees who are covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act will be entitled to be paid no less [...] In what has been called a “sea change” in the law of age discrimination, on June 18, 2009, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision that employees bringing disparate treatment claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must prove that age was the “but-for” cause of the adverse employment [...] The problems for Illinois employers when supervisors harass subordinates just got more complicated. On April 16, 2009, in Sangamon County Sheriff’s Department v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, ___ Ill. 2d ___ (Ill. April 16, 2009) (link: www.state.il.us/court/opinions/supremecourt/2009/april/105517.pdf), the Illinois Supreme Court adopted a new standard that imposed strict liability on employers in cases under the Illinois Human Rights Act involving sexual harassment by supervisors. By Paul E. Starkman There have been recent reports of some large companies trying to lock their in-house attorneys into non-competition, non-solicitation and other restrictive covenants. Other companies thinking about jumping onto this bandwagon may find that they cannot treat their in-house counsel like other employees when it comes to post-employment restrictions. As a general rule, in most [...] |
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