Google's strict confidentiality agreements may discourage workers from talking to federal investigators about possible employment law violations, according to Janet Herold, a Labor Department regional solicitor. She made the comments in the wake of a judge's order compelling Google to turn over employee contact and salary information as part of an investigation into alleged wage inequality.
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Proposed changes to the Post-9/11 GI Bill could increase skilled workers. The measure, dubbed the Forever GI Bill because it would lift a 15-year cap on benefits, has widespread bipartisan support.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and other lawmakers are calling on the Labor Department to issue guidance on the applicability of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to the auto-portability of retirement savings. They said in a letter to Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta that the Employee Benefit Research Institute found a clearinghouse automatically rolling over plan balances to new employers' plans could produce an extra $2 trillion of retirement savings by the time workers reached age 65.
Y Combinator is leading an effort to develop an app that would track incidents in which venture capitalists have been accused of inappropriate behavior toward women. "We don't call it a blacklist, but that is essentially what is happening," said Y Combinator partner Kat Manalac.
Treat employees the way you'd like to be treated, and try to be fair when disciplining them, writes Jon Hyman, a partner at Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis in Cleveland. For instance, don't fire workers over performance or attendance without giving them time to correct the problem, he writes.
