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	<title>WHEN THE ABUSER GOES TO WORK &#187; Gross v. FBL Financial Services</title>
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		<title>Lots of Work for Labor Secretary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor Secretary Tom Perez pledged this week to aggressively defend workers rights in a speech to the AFL-CIO but it may be a bit early to break out the balloons and confetti. For one thing, Perez, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in July, has little power to overcome some of the daunting obstacles [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Supreme Court Decidedly Pro-Business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has questioned whether employees who file discrimination lawsuits get a fair shake from federal judges who have lifetime tenure barring bad behavior. Now there is a comprehensive study that shows the U.S. Supreme Court is the most pro-business court since World War II. An article in The Minnesota Law Review reviews some 2,000 U.S. Supreme [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>EEOC: Then and Now</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) was 20 years old in 1987, the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging sharply criticized the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for failing to enforce the ADEA. What would  Senators Melcher, Heinz, Chiles, Chafee, et. al, say about the EEOC today? The 1987 Senate  Committee blasted the EEOC in 1987 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court stuck a dagger in the heart of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act a few years ago in its decision, Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., 129 S. Ct. 2343 (2009). Prior to Gross, the same standard of proof applied equally to all workers who faced illegal discrimination on the job. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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