November 29, 2012
By: Charles Lamberton
According to the latest numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week, based on the weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, women now earn 82 percent as much as men – up from 64 percent in 1980. In recent discussions of the wage gap, a different figure – 77 percent – has […]
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November 26, 2012
By: Charles Lamberton
Though employment discrimination is most commonly understood as a field defined entirely by federal law, in fact it is not. States and localities play a pivotal role in the fight against workplace discrimination. Their laws often afford stronger protections and more substantial remedies than federal law. Therefore, when we represent clients or sue employers outside […]
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November 19, 2012
By: Charles Lamberton
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently defended the 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission at The Federal Society’s annual dinner held last Thursday night, jabbing at critics of the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion. Alito said arguments can be made for overturning Citizens United, but not the popular one that boils down to one line: […]
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