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New GAO Reports: DOD Personnel Clearances, Runway Safety, Primary Care Professionals
DOD Personnel Clearances: DOD Faces Multiple Challenges in Its Efforts to Improve Clearance Processes for Industry Personnel, GAO-08-470T, February 13,...

Military Personnel Statistics
Those who are interested in finding the latest numbers for American military personnel on active duty, whether by rank or by region, will find the Department of Defense page for Military Personnel Statistics to be helpful...

StatsCan Report on Justice Personnel
As a group, justice personnel are becoming older, according to a Statistics Canada report, “Aging of justice personnel” by Mathieu Charron, Racha Nemr and Roxan Vaillancourt, available on Juristat in HTML and PDF...

?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? and Its Disproportionate Impact on Women
The New York Times includes a story on the front of its national section this morning about how women were discharged under the military?s ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy in disproportionate numbers last year...

Will new US Attorneys have a big impact on federal sentencing law and policy?
The new Administration's approach to crack sentencing shows how new personnel in Main Justice is already impact some parts of federal sentencing law and policy...

ACLU Challenges Defense Department Personnel Policy To Regard Lawful Protests As ?Low-Level Terrorism?
Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests should be regarded as ?low level terrorism...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

My job requires me to drive bank deposits up to two times a day using my own vehicle and gas. Although not too far, can should I be receiving compensation? One deposit run is required daily by company policy, but the man
you should be getting a mileage comp. I own my own company and I pay my employee...

What are my odds of winning in court, If I sue a home warranty company for fraud?
This is not an unusual situation. Many of these types of "warranty" products are...

Am I responsible to pay damages on the car accident my son as in?
In some states the owner cannot be held liable for more than the policy but the ...

IT Personnel Overtime
alleging IT personnel are not receiving the overtime pay they are due.

State Farm Class Actions
Policy Holders Settle

Wal-Mart
Faces Class Action over Return Policy

Canceled Insurance
Judge orders Health Net Inc. to pay $9 million settlement after terminating a policyholder's policy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.