We have all heard the happy talk since the July jobs report rolled out last week. Job growth beat expectations! (As if expectations have been even halfway right for the last six years). There were 288,000 new jobs created in June. Unemployment fell to its...
The words of Thomas Jefferson found in the Declaration of Independence never fail to stir my heart. So perfect was his work that the Committee of Five (among them Ben Franklin and Sam Adams) changed only 2 words. Jefferson then had to sit through editing by members...
In its never ending quest to make the workplace virtually unmanageable, the Board has come out with another gem bound to vex human resources professionals. Naturally the decision applies to both non-union and unionized employers, throwing a wrench into...
The Supreme Court issued two decisions yesterday. One has implications for state governments as employers, and the other has implications for the Affordable Care Act. Harris v. Quinn involved the complaint of Harris, mother of a disabled son who, as his...
Judge Richard Young, a U.S. District Judge, found Indiana’s law forbidding same-sex marriage unconstitutional in a ruling issued on July 25. He joined a long line of jurists who have ruled similarly, most recently in Utah and Pennsylvania. What followed next was...
