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The Department of Veterans Affairs is reaching out to whistleblowers for a meeting on the challenges they've faced when exposing wrongdoing at their facilities, following the establishment of an office to protect whistleblowers. Whistleblowers Kuauhtemoc Rodriguez from the Phoenix VA and Sean Higgins from the Memphis VA have been contacted by the Central Whistleblower Office for a conference call meeting Friday, which comes just over a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating a new Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection at the VA, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The U.S. Senate voted narrowly on Wednesday to repeal an exemption from strict federal protections that former President Barack Obama's Labor Department had given to state-sponsored retirement savings plans for lower-income workers. The exemption, championed by states such as California but opposed by the mutual fund industry, had freed the state-run plans from the strict compliance requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA.
The House has backed legislation that would allow private sector companies to give employees compensation time off rather than overtime pay. Republicans cast the measure as offering greater flexibility for employers and workers.
President Donald Trump is correct to hold federal employees accountable, even as he and his folks make every effort to squirm away from a steady flow of ethical quandaries. His executive order on "Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protections" would create an office in the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify barriers to bouncing bad workers from an agency whose ethical reputation was shredded during a scandal over the cover-up of long patient wait times.
SANDRA SUNDERLAND, BODIL TVEDE, JAMES LIESE, SUSAN LIESE, CAROLANN DONOFRIO, JOHN DONOFRIO, JACQUELINE GLUCKMAN, BARBARA DRUMM, JOHN VIRGADAULA, THE FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF, INC., Plaintiffs - Appellants, v. BETHESDA HOSPITAL, INC., d.b.a. Bethesda Memorial Hospital, d.b.a. Bethesda Hospital West, BETHESDA HEALTH, INC., Defendants - Appellees.
All is not well at the Department of Labor these days. There were early signs that the Democrats were going to try to hang on to Obama era policies at Labor when they put up an intense fight to keep Andy Puzder from taking over and those efforts don't seem to be slowing down.
An appeals court ruled in support of LGBT rights this week, reversing decades of interpretation that largely allowed companies to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual orientation. In their groundbreaking decision, nine of 12 judges in an en banc panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that gay and lesbian workers are protected under Title VII.
Kansas Supreme Court Justice Lee Johnson asks questions during oral arguments in this March 16, 2017, file photo. A school custodian in Olathe must be paid worker's compensation benefits despite being in the country illegally, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Wondering who is visiting the White House? The web-based search has gone dark. Curious about climate change? Some government sites have been softened or taken down.
Friday we took a look at two important labor and employment questions for automotive employers and suggested next steps to consider during 2017. Today we'll examine questions three and four.
COURT BATTLE School board member Timothy Nonn is suing the district he was elected to serveover charges they are not meeting his needs as a disabled person. newly elected trustee at the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District is suing the district in federal court this week over what he says is an ongoing violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act .
Obesity is still a hot topic both in our health conscious culture and in our courtrooms where we continue to see ADAAA claims based on the notion that an employer fired an employee because the employee was obese . After the ADA was amended, there was some question about how the courts would treat obesity under the ADAAA, especially claims alleging that the employer regarded the employee as disabled.
On February 3, 2017, President Trump took actions aimed at alleviating some of the regulatory burdens on the financial services industry. Through a Presidential Memorandum , President Trump ordered the DOL to "examine the Fiduciary Duty Rule to determine whether it may adversely affect the ability of Americans to gain access to retirement information and financial advice" and prepare an updated economic and legal analysis concerning the impact of the rule, while taking into account several enumerated considerations.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he won't roll back federal workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people, giving a rare nod of approval to President Barack Obama's work on the issue. In a statement released early morning, the White House said Obama's 2014 executive order prohibiting LGBTQ workplace discrimination would remain intact "at the direction" of Trump.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a crime becomes a hate crime when there's an added element of bias. For example, a murder is labeled a hate crime if the victim was killed because he was gay.
Some on the left are still blasting judges as activist for standing up to Obama administration assertions of executive power in the regulatory sphere. That might prove shortsighted considering what's on the agenda for the next four years, or so I argue in a piece in Sunday's Providence Journal .
LKCS now offers services to make web sites fully accessible to the disabled by following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. LKCS identifies accessibility issues, corrects them, and monitors sites for continued adherence to the standards.
A bill to strengthen protections for employees who blow the whistle on fraud, waste and mismanagement in government contracts has gained congressional approval and now will head to the president's desk to be signed into law. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, permanently expands whistleblower protections to nearly all contractors and subcontractors for the federal government, except for those who work in the intelligence community.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., listens to testimony at a House Education Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 2016. A worker, right, installs lights on the 2016 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016.
A federal judge's injunction of President Barack Obama's attempt to expand overtime pay for 4.2 million workers has left some employers unsure of how to allot future salaries while their employees wonder how they will be paid. The regulation was scheduled to go into effect today, but U.S. District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant III issued an injunction on Nov. 22, to the U.S. Department of Labor's dismay.