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World’s domestic workers win historic victory

June 20, 2011 By Dan Margolis

The new rules, which must be ratified by at least two countries to come into effect, calls for national governments to ensure that discrimination is ended and that child and forced labor be abolished outright.

Philly Council passes paid sick days, will mayor sign?

June 20, 2011 By Ben Sears

Around 40 percent of all the hourly-wage workers in Philadelphia have no sick days. The bill, if it becomes law, would enable workers to earn one hour of paid sick time for every 40 hours worked.

Labor board: Employers must prove hardship claims

June 13, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

The top enforcement official of the National Labor Relations Board is telling his regional officers to look at employers' "inability to pay" claims and at specific union demands for financial data, simultaneously.

Supreme Court lets anti-immigrant law stand

June 7, 2011 By Mark Gruenberg

By a 5-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona's first anti-immigrant law is legal.

Justice Scalia and the Dybbuk

June 1, 2011 By Thomas Riggins

It seems that, for second time since I can remember, a federal justice has been possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit in Jewish mythology.