Human Resources Report Index-Summary

BACK PAY

– Clothes changing, poultry workers, injunction (N.D. Ala.), 595; accord indicates trend for DOL systemic enforcement, 640
– Compounding interest, policy adoption (NLRB), 1158

BACKGROUND CHECKS

– Checklist, 370
– Child Protection Improvements Act

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1469

– Cities promote hiring persons with criminal records, EEOC guidelines, NELP report, 778
– Felony convictions, hiring policy barring convicted applicants, adverse impact, driver class action (N.D. Cal.), 821
– Fraud, tools to thwart cheaters, 371
– Hiring bias against bankruptcy debtor (3d Cir.), 1392
– NASA contractors, constitutional right to informational privacy (U.S., rev grant), 260; Supreme Court docket, 1069
– Privacy, credit reports for hiring purposes, BNA Insights, 806

BANKRUPTCY

– Electronically stored information, discovery, analysis of legal holds, preservation, other critical issues, 388
– Failure to disclose FMLA claim voids $1M judgment (5th Cir.), 1029
– Hiring bias against debtor (3d Cir.), 1392
– Mesa Air Group, Chapter 11 filing, downsizing, 12
– Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4677, S 3033

– Retaliatory discharge, standing to appeal judicial estoppel ruling, doctrine properly applied (D.C. Cir.), 632
– Untimely disclosure of sexual harassment claim bars suit (6th Cir.), 910
– WESTconsin Credit Union, federal law against firing before petition filing (W.D. Wis.), 272

BANKS

See FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

BCTD

See BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT (BCTD)

BENEFITS

See EMPLOYEE BENEFITS; specific benefits

BEVERAGE INDUSTRY

– Luxco, ADEA, independent contractor status, marketing rep coverage (8th Cir.), 217

BLS (LABOR STATISTICS BUREAU)

– Wage and earnings statistics

See WAGES AND SALARIES

BONUSES

– Employment pacts, detrimental reliance on promise of retention bonuses (S.D. Fla.), 21
– Insurance, finance industries, earnings, BLS data, 462

BRAZIL

– Electronic time clock rules, opposition, 586; deadline delay, 1061

BREAKS, MEAL AND REST

– Breast milk expressing provision in PPACA, 378; employers' duties, WHD fact sheet, 820; WHD preliminary interpretations, comments sought, 1380
– California

– – CAFA, Private Attys. Gen. Act, retailer not entitled to hearing (N.D. Cal.), 1337
– – Diversity jurisdiction, corporate citizenship, “principal place of business” defined (U.S., rvs and rem), 204

– Call center workers, overtime class settlement (W.D. Wis.), 656
– Chinese newspaper reporters, denial (9th Cir.), 1055
– Class arbitration waiver unconscionable, unenforceable (U.S., rev den), 36
– Take Back Your Lunch campaign kick off, 651

BREASTFEEDING AT WORK

– Accommodation

– – Break time provision for milk expressing in PPACA, 378; WHD fact sheet, 820; WHD preliminary interpretations, comments sought, 1380; breastfeeding rates, projections, report, 1384
– – Compliance with federal and state laws, BNA Insights, 1004

– Sexual harassment, comments insufficient for hostile environment (D. Colo.), 1023

BROADCASTING INDUSTRY

– Cal., age bias, television writers' class settlement (Cal. Super. Ct.), 96
– ESPN, Atl. Video, sexual harassment, retaliation, waivers render mandatory arbitration enforceable (2d Cir.), 187
– MSNBC Cable, reporter's breach of contract and unpaid wages claims reinstatement (2d Cir.), 1139
– Radio Free Asia, ethics violation, insubordination on Twitter (Arb.), 1253

BUDGET, U.S.

See specific agencies and departments

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES DEPARTMENT (BCTD)

– Property of employer, nonemployee union reps access to, ULPs (NLRB), 1242

BUILDING SERVICES

– ABM Indus., sexual harassment, rape, EEOC settlement (E.D. Cal.), 963
– Corporate Cleaning Serv., window washers' overtime claims (N.D. Ill.), 693
– Excel, pregnancy bias, Ikea contractor charged (N.D. Cal.), 991
– Security guards

See SECURITY GUARDS

– Urban Inv. Trust, FCA retaliation, whistleblower suit (N.D. Ill.), 300
– Wilmette Real Estate & Mgmt., overtime, employee status (N.D. Ill.), 1169

BURDEN OF PROOF

– ADA, but-for causation requirement, Gross bar to “mixed motive” recovery (7th Cir.), 74
– ADEA disparate impact, RFOA defense waiver (2d Cir.), 16; (U.S., rev den), 1127
– Race bias, revival of Title VII prima facie case (8th Cir.), 269

BUS TRANSPORTATION

– Am. Coach Lines of Miami, overtime, FLSA motor carrier exemption bars claims (U.S., rev den), 374
– Durham D&M, driver's race, age bias claims rejected (8th Cir.), 604
– First Transit, hiring policy barring convicted applicants, adverse impact, driver class action (N.D. Cal.), 821
– Mass transit

See MASS TRANSIT