February 28th, 2009
The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.
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February 27th, 2009
Rules to mandate automatic fire sprinklers in new homes constructed after Jan. 1, 2011, will be delayed, the state Department of Labor and Industry says.
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February 26th, 2009
The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.
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February 25th, 2009
Apparently the desire of having a Secretary of Labor walk down the aisle before Obama’s speech tonight was the trick.
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February 24th, 2009
During her nineteen-year tenure at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant, Lilly Ledbetter did not suspect that she was being paid at a lesser rate than her male counterparts and that this might be due to sex discrimination. For most of that time she was an area manager, a position largely held by men, and initially her salary was in line with that of male managers.
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February 23rd, 2009
The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.
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February 22nd, 2009
ABA JOINT COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYEE BENEFITS * DATE: February 24, 2009 SPONSORS: The Sections of Business Law, Health Law, Labor and Employment Law, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, Taxation, and Tort Trial and …
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February 21st, 2009
As much recent scholarship points out, the American labor movement has suffered a severe decline in membership and influence over the past three decades. Union density in 2006 stood at 12 percent of the non-agricultural workforce, with only 7.4 percent in private sector employment.1 Various reasons are put forward to explain labor’s desuetude, and a number of proposals have been suggested as a means to reinvigorate unionism.
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February 20th, 2009
The question: Generally what percentage of prevailing wage monies should be put towards health and welfare benefits? This is a tough question as this varies by contractor, field, and even region of the country.
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February 19th, 2009
Delaware’s two United States Senators and the Governor were joined by Labor, Business and Community leaders at the Department of Labor to discuss the president’s economic recovery plan Wednesday morning.
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