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	<title>www.AbuserGoesToWork.com &#187; &#187; FEDERAL</title>
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	<description>    An employment law blog about workplace bullying, discrimination, and abuse</description>
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		<title>ADA:  Strength Through Organizing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CULTURE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Americans with Disabilities Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty five years ago today,  former President George H.W. Bush signed into law one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in  world history – the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA is the world&#8217;s first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities.  The ADA makes it  illegal for employers to discriminate against qualified [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks&#8217; De-Caffeinated Response to Age Discrim.</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/starbucks-de-caffeinated-response-to-age-discrim-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGE DISCRIMINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CULTURE]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A spokesperson for Starbucks made a mystifying distinction Wednesday in an apparent effort to justify what appears to be blatant age discrimination in hiring under the recently announced 100,000 Opportunity Initiative. Starbucks is spearheading an effort by more than a dozen major American corporations to hire 100,000 16- to 24- year olds by 2018.  Other partners include Walmart [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>AN OPEN LETTER TO U.S. LABOR SECY. THOMAS E. PEREZ</title>
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		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/an-open-letter-to-u-s-labor-secy-thomas-e-perez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2015 17:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGE DISCRIMINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Labor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[DEAR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR SECRETARY THOMAS E. PEREZ: I see that you have given your imprimatur to a new hiring initiative by more than a dozen major American corporations that seems on its face to blatantly violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. Starbucks, Microsoft and Walmart, among others, recently announced the “100,000 Opportunities [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The DOL Addresses &#8216;White Collar&#8217; Slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EMPLOYERS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEGAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Labor Standards Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Collar workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 CFR Part 541, makes it possible for employers to impose a kind of slavery on poorly-paid salaried employees who are exempt from the protections of the act because they are classified as “white collar” workers. However, the U.S. Department of Labor this week released proposed amendments to the FLSA  “white [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Agencies Study Workplace Bullying</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/federal-agencies-study-workplace-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/federal-agencies-study-workplace-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2015 18:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EEOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSHA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While federal and state laws to address workplace bullying remain elusive, the U.S. government is moving forward to address the problem. The  U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) recently placed “nonsexual harassment” on its research agenda for 2015-2018.  In the past, the MSPB has focused on sexual harassment but it has not previously addressed the problem of general harassment or workplace [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Judicial Conference: To Whom it May Concern</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/judicial-conference-to-whom-it-may-concern/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/judicial-conference-to-whom-it-may-concern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2015 19:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judicial Conference of the United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence has been building for years that federal courts are hostile to discrimination plaintiffs, and that corporate plaintiffs fare much better than individual plaintiffs. The U.S. Courts were created under Article III of the Constitution to administer justice fairly and impartially.  So  it doesn&#8217;t seem right that federal judges appear to be biased, either consciously or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>More Evidence Fed. Cts Hostile to Individual Plaintiffs</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/more-evidence-fed-cts-hostile-to-individual-plaintiffs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/more-evidence-fed-cts-hostile-to-individual-plaintiffs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGE DISCRIMINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashcroft v. Iqbal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dismissal rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pro-business court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New evidence shows that a 2009 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that allows judges to dismiss cases based on their “common sense” has led to a sharp increase in the dismissal lawsuits filed by individuals  but virtually no change in the dismissal rate of lawsuits filed by corporations. The New York Times this week reported the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>New Blog on Age Discrimination in Employment</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/new-blog-on-age-discrimination-in-employment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/new-blog-on-age-discrimination-in-employment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGE DISCRIMINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EEOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age Discrimination in Employment .Com]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.abusergoestowork.com/?p=11690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Age Discrimination in Employment .com My interest in the problem of age discrimination in recent months has increasingly dominated this blog, which I created about five years ago to address the separate and equally important issue of workplace bullying and abuse.  Therefore, I have created a new blog called Age Discrimination in Employment.  Recent articles from this blog on the topic of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Pay for White-Collar Workers</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/fair-pay-for-white-collar-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/fair-pay-for-white-collar-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2015 19:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fair Labor Standards Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez has submitted a proposed rule addressing employer abuse of the white-collar overtime exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The FSLA was passed in 1938 and established the 40-hour workweek. The white-collar exemption allows employers to deny overtime compensation to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The AARP&#8217;s Role in White House Conf. on Aging</title>
		<link>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/the-aarps-role-in-white-house-conf-on-aging/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abusergoestowork.com/the-aarps-role-in-white-house-conf-on-aging/#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2015 19:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patricia Barnes]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AGE DISCRIMINATION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DISPATCHES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEDERAL]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) &#8230; Really. Is it a serious examination of the problems facing older Americans that occurs once every decade, or is it a public relations opportunity? At its fourth regional forum on Monday, the WHCOA held a panel discussion on retirement security that featured a panel of  bureaucrats who [&#8230;]]]></description>
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