Employers Add More Jobs than Expected
More people entered the labor force in October, as hiring ticked up, giving the Obama campaign some relief as the election draws closer. Employers added 171,000 people to their payrolls in October, reported More...
Dairy Queen Franchisee to Pay $17,500 to Settle Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit
By the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission YS&J Enterprises, Inc., which operates a Dairy Queen restaurant in Winston-Salem’s More...
Forestry Giant Sierra Pacific Industries Settles EEOC National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Redding, Calif.-based Sierra Pacific Industries, which owns and harvests forests More...
UPS Worker Assaulted by Epithets, Bottles, and Rocks, Federal Agency Charges
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Global shipping company UPS violated federal law More...
JES/Genie Temps to Pay $80,000 For Terminating Employee Because of Epilepsy
JES Personnel Consultants, Inc., doing business as Genie Temporary Service, will pay $80,000 to settle a disability discrimination More...
Maximus Will Pay $50,000 For Refusing to Promote Woman Because of Her Previous Stroke
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Maximus, Inc., a Reston, Va.-based business management and logistic consulting More...
dELiA*S Will Pay $75,000 to Settle EEOC Pregnancy Discrimination Lawsuit
dELiA*s Inc., a specialty retailer primarily targeting teenage girls and young women, has agreed to pay $75,000 and furnish other relief More...
Jailed Wall Street Lawyer Launches Lawsuit against Prison Officials for Not Being Able to Order Jigsaw Puzzles
A jailed Wall Street lawyer claims that his first Amendment rights are being breached by the ban on jigsaw puzzles imposed by the US Bureau of Prisons, due to the fact that there More...
Drunk Russian Professor Forces Students to Sit 23 Hour Exam
A drunken Russian lecturer decided to subject her students to a 23-hour-long exam without restroom breaks, while she continuously took breaks to refill her alcoholic beverage. Landysh More...
Florida Lifeguard Fired for Rescuing Drowning Man
A Florida lifeguard was fired for vacating his lifeguarding zone to save a man drowning in an unprotected area of a beach in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Monday. Tomas Lopez, a supervisor More...
Overtime Settlement for Sunoco Employees
U.S. Federal judge Eduardo Robreno approved a $675,000 settlement for Sunoco employees who demanded overtime wages for work at a Philadelphia refinery. Eight Sunoco workers Matthew More...
Former Department of Justice Claims She Was Discriminated Against Because She Was ‘Attractive’
A former employee of the FBI’s field office in New Mexico is suing the Department of Justice for discrimination and harassment, saying several co-workers were “jealous of More...
Go Daddy CEO Steps Down
Go Daddy chief executive Warren Adelman has stepped down to become a special adviser for strategy and global policy at the More...
Yahoo! Appoints Marissa Mayer as President and CEO
Sunnyvale, Calif. – One of the most influential women in technology in the Silicon Valley, Mirissa Mayer More...
Employers Add More Jobs than Expected
More people entered the labor force in October, as hiring ticked up, giving the Obama campaign...
Job Cuts Surge to Five-Month High
By Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. CHICAGO, November 1, 2012 – Planned job cuts by U.S.-based...
U.S. Unemployment Falls
Applications for U.S. unemployment fell last week to a seasonally adjusted 369,000, a level showing an...
Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama for President
American statesman Colin Powell, retired four-star general in More...
Dairy Queen Franchisee to Pay $17,500 to Settle Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit
By the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission YS&J Enterprises, Inc., which operates a Dairy Queen restaurant More...
Forestry Giant Sierra Pacific Industries Settles EEOC National Origin Discrimination Lawsuit
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Redding, Calif.-based Sierra Pacific Industries, which owns and harvests forests in California and Washington,..UPS Worker Assaulted by Epithets, Bottles, and Rocks, Federal Agency Charges
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Global shipping company UPS violated federal law when it..Chicago Teachers Return to Work
Chicago teachers returned to work Wednesday after the teachers union voted to suspend its strike, allowing hundreds More...
Chicago Teachers’ Strike Heads into Third Day
Parents – mothers and fathers are marching with the teachers, while other parents honk their horns, showing their encouragement from cars..AFL-CIO Launches ‘Bring Jobs Home’ Campaign
Over the past decade, about 50,000 manufacturing sites closed and 6 million American jobs were lost due to outsourcing, according to..Fair Labor Standards Act Advisory for Daylight Savings Time
Is your boss obligated to pay you for the hour lost due to Daylight Savings Time? For instance, if you worked..
10 Things You Should Never Do When Starting A New Job
Congratulations! You’ve finally secured a new job, and now you want to start off on the right foot, making a positive..
Secrets To Finding Good Jobs Not Advertised
Not all jobs are posted on Internet boards or advertised in the newspaper. A slew of good jobs aren’t ever broadcasted..
Keys To Getting Promoted
Early on in our careers most of us don’t really understand what it takes to move up. We can quickly figure..
