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Cash-strapped companies with bare-bones staffs may turn to unpaid college interns to help shoulder the load. But before these companies leap, they should look at the labor laws, as well as the ruling in a recent high-profile case. In a ...

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Guest speakers at the next meeting of the New York State Coalition of Property Owners and Businesses Inc. will be Gary Kirkmire, director of inspection and compliance for the city of Rochester, and Anne Peterson, apartment living columnist for the ...

ALBANY — Women’s rights advocates lobbying the Legislature to make all private sector employers subject to sexual harassment laws wouldn’t say if their effort conflicts with the handling of an Assembly scandal that skirted Albany’s rules. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver ...

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Partnerships between the state Department of Labor and various state district attorneys’ offices to prosecute unemployment insurance fraud cases returned nearly $1.9 million to the UI Trust Fund in 2012. Monroe County was among the highest, returning $134,724. Monroe County ...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt another blow to class actions in its recent decision allowing an employer to get rid of a wage class action by “picking off” the named plaintiff before it begins. While it’s debatable how serious the ...

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to have mixed feelings about allowing an employee asserting a Title VII-based retaliation claim to prove that his complaint of discrimination was one motivating factor for the employer’s adverse action rather than ...

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An employer could compel arbitration when sued by a former female employee for engaging in a continuing pattern or practice of sex discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in reversing judgment, Parisi v. Goldman, Sachs ...

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The Department of Homeland Security published a new form for verifying employment eligibility on March 8, and every business in America needs to pay attention. “This affects every U.S. employer,” said Christine Mehfoud, an immigration lawyer in Richmond. Form I-9 ...

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A federal court decided yesterday that an employer may have violated federal discrimination law for having the audacity to require an employee to show up for work on time. I guess next we’ll learn that it’s illegal to force an ...

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WASHINGTON — Margaret Fiester is no shrinking violet, but she says working for her former boss was a nightmare. One day I didn’t do something right and she actually laid her hands on me and got up in my face ...

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Federal disability discrimination law may require a state agency to deviate from state law in order to accommodate a mentally ill individual’s claim for benefits, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in reversing a dismissal, Mary ...

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A challenge by four Buffalo sanitation employees to a special authority set up in 2003 to deal with a financial crisis in the city has been dismissed. The seasonal workers, whose wages had been frozen as part of a cost-savings ...