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US regulatory agencies have struggled over the years to come up with a process for evaluating the fairness of employers’ pay practices. The various methodologies put forth have always fallen short of their goal—efficiently and reliably discovering cases of systemic...

The National Labor Relations Board dismissed its controversial complaint against The Boeing Company after Boeing’s union requested the dismissal, the New York Times reported. The International Association of Machinists had filed the original complaint with the...

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear the state of Arizona’s appeal of the decision blocking enforcement of its immigration law, reported the Los Angeles Times. The Department of Justice had asked the Court to deny the appeal.

A recent EU survey of obesity within the EU reveals that nearly a quarter of British women are obese, the highest of 19 countries surveyed; 21.1% of British men were also classed as obese, second only to Malta. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index of over 30....

Next year employers may get some guidance from the EEOC on credit and criminal background checks, Commissioner Vicki Lipnic told the Minnesota State Bar Association on November 17, according to BNA’s Daily Labor Report. As members have heard from EEOC officials...

One of the benefits of membership in any of the Global EDI Networks is the ability to get real time information from peers about practices in their organisations. At the behest of a Workforce Opportunity Network member,...

A former Groupon sales representative is seeking class action status for claims that she and other inside salespeople were not paid overtime, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Ranita Dailey’s lawsuit alleges the company didn’t pay overtime to any inside salespeople...

While supporting the government’s proposal to extend the right to request flexible working to all employees, the TUC warns that plans to...

Statistics published by the Ministry of Justice covering the period 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011 show that there has been an 8% fall I...

An employment tribunal ruled in Farrell v South Yorkshire Policy Authority that an employee’s belief that the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks were "false flag" operations authorised by the US and UK...

We know that “the differences that make a difference” are not the same in every country. In the US, whether or not you have African ancestry is a major differentiator of race; in Australia the question is rather are you of...