Child Labor Violations Hits a Phoenix McDonalds Restaurant
The department reported that Bill Taylor, president of B&D Taylor Inc., which owns the McDonald’s on Sweet Air Road in Phoenix, has paid $20,502.05 in back wages to five workers, two of whom are still in his employ. The workers were not compensated for overtime hours, federal officials said. The company will also pay $9,990 in penalties for violating restrictions on the hours minors can work and tasks they can perform, officials said. Taylor could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
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Workplace Retaliation – What is it?
In the United States, for instance, there are a number of laws that specifically address workplace retaliation. In short, most of the laws that grant employee rights contain provisions that prohibit reprisals when employees assert those rights. To be considered retaliation, an employer’s action usually must have a negative effect on someone’s employment situation.
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Avoid Discrimination Lawsuits – Follow Simple Steps
As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. Employment discrimination lawsuits commonly cost tens of thousands to those who win them and hundreds of thousands more to those who don’t.
Employers face damages for lost wages, emotional injuries, an employee’s legal fees, and more. They can be ordered to train employees or submit to state oversight of their policies. Worst of all for defendants in employment discrimination lawsuits, they ultimately realize that the whole mess was preventable.
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Sexual Harassment and Non-Employees – Employers Beware
Does employers have liability for harassment by non employees in their workplace? May be if they should have known.
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What You Need to Know About the EEO Department
Employers must be mindful of these statutes, as well as State and International laws, when hiring and firing employees, offering promotions or benefits, and giving or failing to give pay raises.
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During the Recession Discriminatory Hiring Practices Increased
Several academic and governmental studies confirm that whether or not current discriminatory practices are deliberate, minorities are facing disparate treatment in the hiring and employment markets. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate for black male college graduates 25 and older was nearly twice the unemployment rate for white male college graduates 25 and older in 2009.
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Discrimination Case – Know When To Ask For Help
The issues may be hiring or dismissing an individual on the aforementioned criteria. It also includes any kind of promotion or demotion as well as providing or denying benefits or perhaps you have to face a hostile work environment. This can hamper your working capabilities. Whatever the type of discrimination if you are a victim of it, you need to take prompt action.
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Prevent Age Discrimination In Your Business
Your business should have a policy about age discrimination. Ensure that all members of staff know where it is and are reminded about it regularly. Placing it on a bulletin board and the company intranet would be a good idea. You may want to do the same with all company policies so that it doesn’t seem as if you are making an issue out of it yourself.
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Most Common Workplace Discrimination
Discrimination can happen to anyone, though there are some groups of people who tend to be targeted more than others. It’s a sad truth that many of these groups are people who have had to struggle for their rights to be treated as equals in society, and workplace discrimination is just another indicator that they are still not quite there.
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Can Medical Pot Use Conflict With Job Rules In Colorado?
Companies that receive federal contracts are required to prohibit the use of marijuana as a condition of participation under the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. The federal Department of Transportation also issued new guidelines last year that prohibit the use of medical marijuana for transportation workers in safety-sensitive jobs, including pilots, school bus drivers, truck drivers, subway operators and transit armed security, even in states where it is legal.
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