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Target Corp. Hit with Child Labor Violation Fines

Target Corporation has paid the U.S. Department of Labor $92,400 in penalties to resolve charges that the retailer exposed young workers to hazardous machinery, in violation of federal child labor standards. The violations occurred at several New York stores and one in New Jersey. In connection with the resolution, Target also provided the DOL with […]

New FMLA Rules Coming Soon

The U.S. Department of Labor, which enforces the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), has announced that it will soon publish—by June 2006—a new rule conforming the department’s regulations to recent court decisions concerning the FMLA.

Compensation: Can We Insist on Salary Confidentiality?

As a result of an upcoming merger, we are going to have a lot of situations in which there is a disparity in salaries. We have a plan for addressing that over a period of three years, but in the meantime, I would like to institute a policy that prohibits employees from discussing their salaries […]

Reasonable Accomodation: Our Employee Can’t Work in the Cold; What Do We Do?

We are a cold storage facility and recently received a doctor note for one of our employees indicating that the employee must not work in the freezer area. Our facility is divided into different temperature areas but is always at a cold temperature. What do I do moving forward with this employee? Her job requires […]

Diversity: How Can We Defuse Our Affinity Groups?

We’ve got some conflicting “affinity groups” at our organization. We thought it would be a good idea to support these groups and that doing so would help our diversity initiative. We support them a little financially, provide space, and let the groups organize on company time. Now some of the groups are getting a little […]