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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….
The Governor of New York signed on July 7 New York’s Compassionate Care Act, which will permit limited use of medical marijuana by individuals suffering from covered medical conditions, making New York the 23rd state to legalize the use of medical marijuana….
There will be no medical marijuana initiative in Oklahoma this year, but organizers vow to be back next year. Former Republican state governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush has come out against Florida’s medical marijuana initiative. Bush…
Spokane Mayor David Condon said the city would join a nationwide trend to “ban the box” and no longer ask city job applicants about their criminal background. Condon said revising the city’s employment application would open “another pathway to…