Weekly Industry News – Employment Law

Employment Law – the latest on the Dodd- Frank, Pension threats in Illinois and more.

Should Employers Test Applicants’ Integrity? The EEOC Discusses “Integrity Testing” by Maria Greco Danaher Published on jdsupra.com

Employers often associate a lack of integrity with counterproductive workplace behaviors, including theft and workplace violence. As a result, employers may be tempted to subject employees and applicants to so-called integrity tests. According to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, “integrity testing” is a “specific type of personality test designed to assess an applicant’s tendency to be honest, trustworthy, and dependable.”… [ Read More ]

Dodd-Frank affects private companies too: practice points to note by Alexander Fraser, Bradley Phipps, Andrew Weil on jdsupra.com

The Dodd-Frank Act – signed by President Barack Obama more than three years ago, and since then advanced with a host of rules and regulations – has been widely viewed as a law that addresses systemic risk in the financial system and enhances the corporate responsibility of public companies to shareholders… [ Read  More ]  

Pension Threats in Illinois, Detroit Rattle Government Workers by Mark Niquette & William Selway Published on jdsupra.com

Bev Johns sat before Illinois lawmakers and asked why they hated teachers. The 67-year-old retired special-education teacher and administrator from Jacksonville thought she had a secure pension in return for 34 years of work. She wanted the people considering reducing benefits to rescue the worst-funded U.S. state pension system to know whom they were affecting… [ Read More ]  

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