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President Bush has signed legislation that extends unemployment compensation from 13 weeks to 20 weeks.
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The U.S. Congress has approved legislation that would extend unemployment benefits for 7 additional weeks and for 13 additional weeks in states with unemployment rates above 6 percent.
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Once upon a time, a health insurer designated all its salespeople as independent contractors--a practice it said is typical in the insurance industry. But a group of 14 former sales managers, whose job title had been "sales leader," sued for overtime pay. They argued that they had been employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), not contractors.
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The HR consulting firm Astron Solutions is offering advice to employers as they attempt to navigate through the economic downturn and adjust pay budgets for 2009.
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Speculation has been high as to whether Wall Street firms would pay out bonuses to their executives after a very difficult year in the financial sector. Citing that it was "the right thing to do" executives at Goldman Sachs Group have given up their year-end bonuses for 2008, the firm has announced.
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The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal has upheld the Employer Spending Requirement for a controversial ordinance that requires employers to spend a certain amount of health insurance for employees working in San Francisco.
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Forty-two percent of HR professionals say that their organization provides supervisors with sexual harassment training every year, according to a poll on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com.
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We've already written about 10 significant changes included in new Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rules, which the Department of Labor released late last week. However, there are more revisions you should note. |