Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Innovative Alaskan EEOC Claimant

An Alaskan who has filed an EEOC charge against the Salvation Army’s Clitheroe Treatment Center on Bragaw in Anchorage has created a fancy website  (and bought ads on other web sites) to publicize his or her complaints of discrimination. 
02/25/08 Update: You can see the employee’s Google Ad on today’s Talking Points Memo.

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Employment Bills in the Alaska Legislature

Caps on mandatory overtime for nurses: CSSB 28 (B. Davis) would set caps on mandatory overtime (generally 80 hours in a 14-day period, though with multiple exceptions), and establish an enforcement process in the Department of Health and Social Services.
Political expenditures by public unions: SB 77 (C. Bunde) would prohibit public unions from using agency […]

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Mike Kelly Introduces Fringe Benefit Bill in House

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Fbx) on February 19th introduced HB 391, which parallels SB 276, discussed several days ago.  The bills would, if enacted, give each individual employee working on state-financed PLA’s (including the natural gas pipeline) the option of directing his or her fringe benefit contributions to either the current employer’s plan, another employer’s plan, or the plan […]