legaltimes.typepad.com - 25 days ago
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The Obama administration renewed its push today for legislation that would prohibit employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. Thomas Perez, the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general for civil rights, testified before a Senate panel that the legislation is a...
whitehouse.gov - 24 days ago
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whitehouse.gov —
Today's employment report contained both signs of hope
for recovery and painful evidence of continued labor market...
weakness. Payroll employment declined 190,000 in October, continuing the steady trend of moderating job loss that began last spring. ...
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On the Employment Situation in October
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Employment Non-Discrimination Act Gets Senate Hearing
ACS Blog —
... At today's hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Civil Right Division testified about the plight of "our lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender brothers and sisters" in the workplace: ...
Keli Goff: Why the Gay Marriage Message Is Misfiring: Part 1
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... their son. My point is that when it comes to activism, the "with us" or "against us" mentality is not always a winning formula. Too often in the quest for marriage equality the gay community has shamed and shouted down potential allies whose voices and votes they need on other issues -- issues that presently have greater widespread support, according to polls, than marriage, from adoption rights for gays and lesbians to protection from employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Which brings me to ...
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Another Bad Employment Report
delong.typepad.com 24 days ago —
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports:
The unemployment rate rose from 9.8 to 10.2 percent in October, and nonfarm
payroll employment continued to decline (-190,000).... Since the start of the recession in
December 2007, the number of ...
Employment Report
angrybear.blogspot.com 10/2/2009 — By Spencer Not only was the employment report disappointing, but previously reported encouraging leading indicators of employment were revised away. Most importantly, hours worked fell 0.5% from 99.0 to 98.5. We are now looking at a 3.0% drop in hours worked in the third quarter as compared ...
Employment Report
angrybear.blogspot.com 24 days ago — By Spencer, The unemployment rate jumped to 10.2%. Except for the peak rate of 10.8% after the 1982 recession this is the highest in the post WW II era. The overall tenor of the report was very similar to the past three months reports and sent the message that the economy is no longer ...
Preventing Age Discrimination
nytimes.com 10/13/2009 — The Supreme Court issued a poorly reasoned ruling in June that makes it much harder for older workers to prove illegal age discrimination. Fortunately, bills have been introduced in the Senate and House to undo the damage and put age discrimination ...
Why Employment Might Not Fully Recover Until 2013
moneywatch.bnet.com 20 days ago — The most recent employment report shows the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent, and the broader unemployment rate that accounts for part-time work and discouraged workers at 17.5 percent. With numbers like these, can we expect good news on the ...
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