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According to the National Employment Law Project, 67 cities and counties and 13 states have adopted such provisions. [1] More cities and states are expected to follow suit. ThisCommentarydiscusses the current state of the ban the box laws, the risks that these laws…
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U.S. district court in Florida has temporarily halted a diploma mill that allegedly grossed more than $11 million from marketing and selling fake high school diplomas online to consumers nationwide. The FTC’s…
Six child care centers of nine investigate have already been closed and the others are on track to be shuttered after investigators found one served no children yet got almost $60,000 in city money, another had rat droppings on the floor and spoiled milk in the…
For college athletes, especially football players, getting in trouble with the law is nothing new, but many people may be surprised at just how common this is. One out of every fourteen players from the preseason Top 25 NCAA football teams in 2010 were found to have…
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, introduced two bills on September 10 aimed at curbing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s authority. The first measure, theLitigation Oversight Act of 2014 ( H.R….
The owners of “Incredible Fresh” are looking for new employees, after more than 100 workers were accused of providing fake identification to get their jobs. Only six of those workers are still in police custody, after a raid last week. According to Denise…
Delaware recently adopted a new law that will add requirements related to the destruction of records containing “personal identifying information.” With that law, Delaware joined a number of other states that place restrictions on the ways in which…
The FTC is responsible for ensuring fair trade practices. One of the mandates in the law that created the agency is ensuring companies don’t do “unfair and deceptive” things to consumers. “We’re one of the only cops on the beat when it…
Public employers often mistakenly believe that they have the same drug testing rights as employers in the private sector. As a recent decision from a federal court in Florida shows, it isn’t necessarily so. The court found that there was no evidence showing that…
A federal court in Minnesota has ruled that Minnesota’s Drug and Alcohol Testing in the Workplace Act (DATWA), Minn. Stat. Sections 950-957, does not apply to employees who work or are applying to work outside the state of Minnesota. Olson v. Push, Inc., No….