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When Jim Franks, a heavy equipment operator for the city of Hayden, Idaho was diagnosed with cancer, his co-workers tried to help him maintain the work schedule his health required. Some employees donated their sick leave to him so that he could take time off for treatments without losing his job, and public works director […]

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Freedom Communications, owners of the newspaper the Orange County Register, have decided to settle the class-action lawsuit filed by over 5,000 of the newspaper’s carriers. The suit concerned the carrier’s employment status within the company; as so-called independent contractors, they are not eligible for overtime pay or mileage compensation. The settlement will not require Freedom […]

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The Star Tribune, a Minneapolis/St Paul newspaper, has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of two women working for the paper. The suit alleges that the paper’s management allowed a hostile work environment to continue in the mail room, affecting all women who have worked there since […]

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Employers around the country are getting ready for changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act to go into effect. The amendment to the 1990 piece of legislation was signed by President George Bush in September 2008 and will become effective in January 2009. The amendment was written to broaden some key terms and phrases in […]

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A sexual harassment suit that was first filed in 2004 may be finally wrapping up. The suit was originally filed by Kendra Lynn of Kansas City, Missouri, against  TNT Logistics of North America Inc. The suit claims that Lynn’s shift supervisor, Michael Gill, repeatedly made lewd an inappropriate comments to her. When Lynn filed […]

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Labor union officials are hoping that President Elect Barack Obama and his administration will pass certain pieces of legislation that failed to make it out of the House or Senate in previous years. Obama ran on a strong pro-union platform during his campaign, and union members are hoping that the relationship between Democrats and unions […]

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