Oct 27, 2012

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Legal pot in Colorado raises jobsite enforcement questions
Denver Post
The gray areas of employment law that already exist with medical marijuana in Colorado will become grayer if pot is legalized, they say. Both sides of the issue agree that the ability of an employer to fire a worker for using marijuana during work ...
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Social-Media Do's and Don'ts You'd Better Know
Human Resource Executive Online (blog)
The folks at Fisher & Phillips (Atlanta-based employment law firm) sent me this link to a pretty formidable write-up by D. Albert Brannen (a partner there), spelling out just how much you need to keep in mind now under the more aggressive National ...
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Human Resource Executive Online (blog)
Boss: Obama win would hurt jobs
The Durango Herald
In what authorities on election law called a breach of state law, the owner of a Pagosa Springs company warned his employees earlier this month that they might lose their jobs if President Barack Obama is re-elected next month. Chris Smith, owner of ...
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With Proposition 11, paramedics seek civil service protection like police ...
Austin American-Statesman
If voters sign off on it, the City Charter will be amended to grant uniformed, certified EMS employees collective bargaining rights as well as stronger arbitration rights for hiring and firing disputes. In addition, Marquardt said he hopes obtaining ...
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Presidential Debates at Work: Elect Civility in These Final Days (and Know ...
Business Management Daily
Never press employees to vote for a specific candidate. Almost every state forbids employers from using threats or employment consequence to influence an employee's vote. 6. Know the law. The First Amendment protects citizens against government action ...
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OHL threatened with legal action over junior player pay
Waterloo Record
The players also aren't getting overtime, vacation or severance pay, three other requirements in law, and the teams are not making the required contributions to the Canadian Pension Plan and employment insurance, states the letter. If these "violations ...
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Costa Mesa outsourcing fight could have far-reaching effects
OCRegister
Courts have sided with the employees along the way. In their rulings, judges dredged up labor law that hadn't been tested like this, experts say. The statutes generally allow cities to privatize jobs that fall under the definition of "special services ...
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School Board to seek local law firm
The Advocate
The board's executive committee met Friday afternoon to discuss information to include in the advertisement, such as specifying that the law firm be able to handle a variety of issues from workers' compensation and employment and labor law to education ...
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Tom H. Luetkemeyer Receives Loyola University School of Law's Francis J ...
Lawfuel
Mr. Luetkemeyer received his B.A. and B.S., magna cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago in 1979, and his J.D. from Loyola University School of Law in 1982. He is a longtime Adjunct Professor at the law school, and teaches labor law, employment law ...
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Tax, Securities Law Key in EB-5 Advice
Texas Lawyer
The employment-based fifth preference visa category for immigrant investors, commonly referred to as "EB-5," has grown significantly over the last several years. However, the EB-5 investor presents a number of unique challenges for immigration ...
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State Amendment Scare Tactics
FactCheck.org
The 3-page ballot measure contains a provision stating that no existing or future state law "shall abridge, impair or limit" a public employee union's rights to negotiate wages, hours and "other terms and conditions of employment." Opponents argue that ...
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Beckley businessman sentenced to two years in prison for kickback scheme
State Journal
Alfred Williams, 72, pleaded guilty in June of running a scheme where he required at least one-third of his employees to return cash to him from their paychecks as a condition of their employment. Alfred Williams, 72, pleaded guilty in June of running ...
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Forever 21 in Hot Water With U.S. Department of Labor
Ecouterre (blog)
When companies like Forever 21 refuse to comply with subpoenas, they demonstrate a "clear disregard for the law," he adds. "The Labor Department will use all enforcement tools available to recover workers' wages and hold employers accountable." Forever ...
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Ecouterre (blog)
Prostitution soars amid weak lawsPublish Date: Oct 27, 2012
New Vision
Life Style. Prostitution soars amid weak lawsPublish Date: Oct 27, 2012. Prostitution soars amid weak laws. Tweet ... He suggests that the best way to get rid of the problem is by vetting employment bureaus, which he says have strong networks all over ...
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Bill 10: Alberta Employment Pension Plans Act Introduced in Alberta Legislature
Blakes
The availability of this information does not suggest that Blakes or any of its lawyers is practicing law in any jurisdiction other than those in which its offices are physically situated. The information does not constitute legal advice or an opinion ...
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Handling 'gross' things is tricky
Home Channel News
"The employer should not ignore the problem," said Joseph H. Harris, an employment law attorney with White Harris in New York City. "If the gross habit is a distraction and is disturbing other employees, it needs to be addressed," Harris told SHRM Online.
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State had warnings
Greenville News
In April, a state Medicaid employee was charged with six counts of violating confidentiality and Medicaid laws after authorities accused him of transferring records on nearly 230,000 Medicaid patients to his email account and then sending a copy to ...
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Court upholds Navajo hiring rules at Ariz. mines
San Francisco Chronicle
... explained that tribal preference in employment for on-reservation employers is not prohibited national origin discrimination, as the EEOC alleged, but is instead a political preference which falls outside the scope of federal equal employment ...
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DA may look into Rite-Hite owner's letter on risks of voting for Obama
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
State law states: "No employer or agent of an employer may distribute to any employee printed matter containing any threat, notice or information that if a particular ticket of a political party or organization or candidate is elected or any referendum ...
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Dallas Senator John Carona Declares Support for Gay Rights, Gets Pilloried By ...
Dallas Observer (blog)
He stopped short of endorsing gay marriage, but he told the paper that he would support bills to ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, offer domestic partner benefits to state university employees, and allow ...
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Unions curious about Saskatchewan Employment Act to be introduced
650 CKOM News Talk Radio
SEIU-West's Janice Platzke is skeptical as she claims the government doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to drafting labour law. She recalls the essential services law that was struck down by the court. She wonders whether this new ...
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Ithaca Seeking New Assistant City Attorney
The Ithaca Independent
The job, which pays $72,333, will go to applicants with substantial experience in labor/employment law and civil litigation, according to the Human Resources Department. "We are sorry to be losing Assistant City Attorney Trish O'Rourke to other ...
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Tim Copeland: Legislature must stop downshifting costs to N.H. towns
Seacoastonline.com
Federal law currently allows employees to forgo joining a union if they wish but they do have to pay "shop fees" to cover the cost of collective bargaining and New Hampshire RSA 273-A:5, I (c) prohibits an employer from discriminating against a ...
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For victims, leaving an abusive relationship is often a difficult step ...
Chicago Tribune
Counselors recommend that the victim develop a safety plan — including provisions for housing, child care and employment — before ending an abusive relationship. "The more resources ... "Is he the kind of person who would obey the law? Does he leave ...
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Bolivia Enacts New Law for Mother Earth
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
... a much wider reaching text named the Framework Law for Mother Earth and Integrated Development to Live Well is also law. The wide-ranging document addresses topics including the environment, land distribution, access to employment, healthcare and ...
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NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
Hometownlife.com
-Override state laws that regulate hours and conditions of employment to the extent that those laws conflict with collective bargaining agreements. -Define "employer" as a person or entity employing one or more employees. PROPOSAL 12-3. A PROPOSAL ...
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California Court of Appeal: Employer Cannot Compel Arbitration Unless There Is ...
JD Supra (press release)
by Orrick - Global Employment Law Group on 10/26/2012 Contact · Tweet. Send. [authors: Allison Riechert Giese, Michael Aparicio, Michael Weil]. Since the United States Supreme Court's decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, more and more employers ...
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Albany Law School
New York Law Journal (registration)
However, as a result of having a smaller student body than in previous years, we expect that most students at Albany Law School will secure employment after they graduate. We also believe that an uptick in the general economy will facilitate growth in ...
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COMMENTARY: How Log Cabin Republicans abandoned gay rights
San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Just as the Republican Party thinks nothing of the Log Cabin Republicans, so too, the Cabineers today think little of LGBT people, and next-to-nothing of hate crime laws, open military service, employment non-discrimination laws, and the freedom to ...
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San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
Password Privacy Laws: More States Are Now On-Board
JD Supra (press release)
Back in May, Maryland became the first state to enact a password privacy law (discussed in my last post on this topic), and on October 1 that law officially went into effect. So now employers in Maryland are prohibited from asking or requiring ...
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Rep. Frank: Log Cabin Republicans' Romney Endorsement 'A Concession'
WBUR
And during the period of his governorship, I wrote to him (because I was the main sponsor in the U.S. House of Representatives) on legislation to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and employment. We already had such a law in Massachusetts ...
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I Was Told I'll Die 17 Yrs Ago - HIV Positive Nurse
AllAfrica.com
At first, due to her naivety, she found the whole world crashing on her, no thanks to her employer, Dr Molokwu, the Chief Medical Director of the Medical Centre who terminated her employment which began in 1989 and advised her to go back to her village ...
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My advice to unpaid interns: you're being exploited and won't get a job
Quartz
And though not within the government realm, a former unpaid intern at Harper's Bazaar in New York filed a lawsuit in February alleging that the magazine's parent organization, Hearst Corporation, had violated federal and state labor laws. Only when ...
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The bench's everyman [Part 2]
Mmegi Online
"As I have said before, dismissal is the ultimate punishment with disastrous consequences on employees livelihoods. It is akin to a death sentence in criminal law. On the papers, it is plain that the applicants and their members were not given a ...
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ACA Deadlines Loom As Questions Remain For Employers
Law360 (subscription)
Provisions of the law that place new responsibilities on employers come into play in 2013, and the so-called employer mandate requiring businesses to provide affordable coverage to their full-time employees or pay a penalty takes effect in 2014, ...
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Corporations Under Investigation For Immigration & Related Employment Lapses
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The law requires all US employers to complete an I-9 form for every employee hired after November 6, 1986 who will be working in the United States. Independent contractors are not required to complete an I-9 Form. An employer will receive a Notice of ...
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NFL responds to effort to recuse Tagliabue from appeal hearing
NBCSports.com
The NFLPA, under the league's argument, must accept the exercise of that authority — even if the person appointed has a potential conflict of interest via his employment with a law firm that represents the league. The NFL's argument is that the ...
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Fired Bank Worker Declines Offer to Return to Work
Yahoo! News (blog)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. set up a waiver process for bank employees with minor infractions and for those with no role in lending in order to prevent them from being fired under the new regulations. Eggers received ... "Unfortunately, in ...
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ELA's Higher Education Council Joins Amicus Brief With the American Council ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Oct 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- More than a dozen firms from the Higher Education Council of the Employment Law Alliance joined the American Council on Education, the American Association of Community Colleges, ...
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Blogs2 new results for Employment Law
 
Laws for Employers Changed on October 1, 2012 | HindmanSanchez
By ADaigle
We all know that the issue of illegal workers in the US has been a hot issue over the last several years and many states, including Colorado, have adopted laws to curb employment of illegals. As of October 1, 2012, all Colorado employers ...
HindmanSanchez Law Blog
Tribunal win could plug legal gap for disabled agency workers ...
By admin
An employment appeal tribunal ruled in April that the council did owe her legal duties under the Disability Discrimination Act, which was still in force at the time she was sacked from her job as a school travel planning officer. Following that ...
DisabledGo News Blog

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OUTLINE OF FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT LAW RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS. Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP. Page 1 of 15. TYPE OF RECORDS TO ...
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Boylan Code Employment Law Seminar
Boylan Code will host the third installment of our Employment Law Seminar Series, entitled "Preventing and Investigating Workplace Harassment Claims." ...
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European Employment Law Update - - Hogan Lovells
"European Employment Law Update ." Employment Alert , Hogan Lovells , 25 October 2012. Helena Davies Hogan Lovells quarterly newsletter on European ...
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