Articles by Girish Anand

May 27, 2009

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EEOC Sues Strip Club for Firing 56-Year-Old Waitress

I stumbled upon this attorney's employment law blog that focuses on the bizarre, humorous and unusual in case law (Wal-Mart execs dressed in drag and filmed at a meeting, for instance). On his site, CurrentEmployment.net, Tim Eavenson brings up the tale of a lawsuit filed this past week by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against a strip club that burned to the ground--two ye...

May 25, 2009

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Lawyers Seek Own Bailout Through Tort Reform

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It was kind of hard to capture what I'm trying to say in one short headline (title), but basically the trial lawyers of America are going around knocking on the doors of statehouses and legislators everywhere to expand liability laws, so they can rack up increased litigation--and paychecks. It's what Tiger Joyce of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel calls the "litigation industry's stimulus pla...

May 24, 2009

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In This VAT, There Be Billions

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Scrambling to come up with money (i.e., take it from us taxpayers), Congress and the White House are experiencing a taxing time figuring out sources of revenue that won't have serious political repercussions. One that is almost sure to be enacted in the name of "healthcare reform" (since when did health care become one word?) is a tax on employer-provided health benefits, which will probably b...

May 18, 2009

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Countrywide Leads the List of Top 25 Bandits

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I don't usually agree with AlterNet, which is generally a left-leaning (to say the least) site, but The Center for Public Integrity has a well-reasoned piece on "The Bad Guys of Subprime Lending Are Raking in Bailout Billions." The article details the woeful and sordid spectacle of non-banks (for the most part) dishing out $1.4 trillion in subprime (paradoxically, actually meaning higher than...

May 14, 2009

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Heritage Foundation Asks, 'What Employer Advantage?' | WWC

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James Sherk, writing for the Heritage Foundation, has challenged the assertion that current union organizing laws favor the employer over the organizers. He makes these points, and I'm taking the liberty to quote his text directly: In fact, as I have written before, labor law heavily tilts the scales in favor of unions during organizing drives:* Unions control the election timing, so workers d...

May 12, 2009

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British Doctor Warns of Human Toll from U.S. Health Care Reform

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The British organization going by the acronym of NICE is anything but when it comes to its role in policing health care in the United Kingdom. It routinely denies the use of drugs that the United States and European nations rely on to prolong and save lives from chronic diseases such as cancer. NICE stands for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, Britain's model for what Obama and c...

May 6, 2009

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EFCA Sponsors Says Card Check May Go Bye-Bye

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Senator Tom Harkin, D.-Iowa, says compromise is in order to save the Employee Free Choice Act, specifying that the card check provision will no doubt have to be dropped. "Compromises are going to be made," said Harkin, 69. "It probably won't be card check [as part of the final law], because too many people are opposed to it now." Card check allows organizers to unionize a c...

May 5, 2009

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Spain’s Unemployment Offers Economic Warning

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Actually, I'm not referring to the level of unemployment when I say "Peering into Our Future." If you follow Shadow Stats, you'll know that we've already gone well past that figure (into the 20-percent range). What I'm referring to is the black market that developed in response to the recession, which has become a major source of income for the unemployed. Also, a spate of labor laws make it ...

May 1, 2009

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Obama Billionaire Backers Nix EFCA--Surprised?

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Warren Buffett, the sage of Omaha, was the first Obama-aire to come out against the EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act) and its card-check unionization. Now he's been joined by three other Obama-backing billionaires (did you realize that the Democratic Party has a much higher concentration of voters who make more than $100,000 a year than the GOP has?). The three nay-sayers all hail from Chicago. ...

April 28, 2009

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History of At-Will Employment: Created Out of Thin Air?

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I'd always heard about how Major League Baseball's exemption from antitrust law was based on a long-ago Supreme Court decision that ruled the sport did not (catch this one: DID NOT) engage in interstate commerce. Funny thing is, no Supreme Court decision since that one nearly 90 years ago has ever overturned its obviously false finding. What I didn't realize until I just read a Personnel Conce...

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