News and Information

Yesterday the A.P. ran a news piece announcing that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was suing AT&T for age discrimination.

Headquartered in Texas, AT&T is the country's biggest telecommunications utility company and has almost 300,000 employees.

The lawsuit alleges that AT&T has discriminated against older employees by "denying them the chance to be rehired solely because they left under early retirement plans."

Up to 50,000 AT&T employees have left under the guise of an early retirement program, after which AT&T then deems you ineligible to be rehired.

If there is one profession that works long hours, it's the computer professional.

It can be hard to tell since California has changed the overtime rules for computer professionals four times since January 1, 2006. And even smart companies like EA, Google, and Yahoo get it wrong.

The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 became law earlier this year, and successfully reverses a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision (Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.) in which a woman had sued her employer over wage discrimination. The court ruled that because the company’s initial wage decision had occurred many many years earlier, Ledbetter’s claim was time-barred even if it had an ongoing discriminatory impact on her present pay level.