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Workers & Their Families
Employers play a lot of games in order to avoid paying overtime wages. One of the more recent and "trendy" schemes used by employers in order to avoid paying workers the overtime to which they are otherwise entitled under the law, is to tell those workers that they...
The U.S. Department of Education released the results of a 2013 survey on bullying. The results represent an improvement from 2011, but show that bullying is still a significant problem. In 2013, 22 percent of students aged 12-18 reported that they were bullied. In...
Few things terrify most businesses as the possibility that they might have to treat their employees with even the tiniest degree of respect. They wage a never-ending battle to deny workers a decent wage, overtime, a safe workplace and any rights that a human being...
In a win for pregnancy rights, the United States Supreme Court recently considered whether employers must provide light duty to pregnant employees who require the same. In Young v. UPS, the plaintiff was a female part-time driver whose duties included picking up and...
If you've never installed a child's car seat, you might think the process is difficult to screw up. You'd be wrong. Installation errors in child restraint systems are a very common. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, three-quarters of...
Learning the rules of the road is one part of new driver education that is relatively straightforward. Learning how to physically operate a vehicle in various circumstances - parallel parking, three-point turns, and the like - requires a little practice, but is still...
Or...I'm tired of blogging about this and I don't want to ever have to blog about it again. The time has come.Of course, we shouldn't be having a conversation about this in the first place, so I suppose to say "the time has come" is sort of silly. Really, the time...
Or... "I Finally Get to Talk about Football in a Blog - Sort of."First, let me get out of the way the fact that I'm a huge football fan; always have been. I always loved playing it, and I love watching it, although as I get older, I find myself getting more and more...
The Grow America Act is a transportation bill put forth by the U.S. Department of Transportation submitted last month. The bill outlines the department's hopes for improved authority for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to combat defective vehicles....
The rise of so-called 'infotainment systems' in new automobiles has caused many to wonder if technology could be making cars less safe than they used to be. A survey of potential car buyers has revealed that safety technology is actually quite popular among consumers...
