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RIMS 2016: Employee-Contractor Debate to Become Even Hotter
The employee vs. contractor debate has the potential to have a major impact on the insurance industry, according to a pair of experts speaking on the topic on Monday in San Diego, Calif. It's ...
Plaintiff Pao Loses California Gender Discrimination Case
A jury soundly rejected Ellen Pao's claims of gender discrimination by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in a case that riveted Silicon Valley for weeks and exposed how women fare in the ...
White House Launching Executive Actions on Pay Equality for Women
President Barack Obama will launch two new executive actions this week aimed at increasing transparency about women's pay in a continuing effort to ensure women are paid equally to their male ...
Hiscox Study Reveals Top States for Employee Lawsuits
An typical California employer has nearly an 18 percent chance of finding its business on the receiving end of an employment liability charge, according to a new study, which reveals that this is 42 ...
Obama Meeting With CEOs to Boost Hiring of Long-Term Unemployed
President Barack Obama will meet with a group of chief executive officers today who have agreed to make sure their companies do not rule out hiring people just because their résumés show they have ...
Goodyear Files Suit in France Over ‘Boss-Napping’
Goodyear's French division says it has filed a lawsuit over the "boss-napping" of two of its executives and workers' occupation of a plant in northern France. Goodyear Dunlop Tires France—a ...
U.S. Supreme Court Weighs In on Wage-and-Hour Case over Paid Time for Donning & Doffing Gear
Steel workers who do their jobs wearing flame-retardant gear tried to convince the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that they should be paid for the time they spend "donning and doffing" such items ...
Lawsuit Against Silicon Valley Hiring Practices Gets Class-Action Status
A U.S. judge accorded class-action status to a lawsuit that alleges broad conspiracy among major Silicon Valley companies to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other's employees, a ...