Mar 30, 2013

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If employee refuses to cooperate with investigation, feel free to fire
Business Management Daily
If employee refuses to cooperate with investigation, feel free to fire. by The HR Specialist: California Employment Law on March 29, 2013 6:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. Not everyone wants to cooperate when an employer ...
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HR gone to pot: Why Tennessee businesses should track marijuana laws
Nashville Business Journal (blog)
The big question: Do businesses have to accommodate employees who use marijuana for medical reasons? In most cases, the answer is not yet, according to Josh Sudbury, a Nashville-based attorney at the employment law firm Ford Harrison. Most state ...
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"No need for panic over Saudi law"
Asian Tribune
Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi on Thursday said there was no reason to panic over the "Nitaqat law" being implemented by the Saudi Arabian government. The deadline for implementing the new labour law — which seeks to reserve 10 per ...
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New appointments to Fair Work Commission
Invest in Australia
Mr Catanzariti has been the National Human Resources Partner and Head of Workplace Relations and Employment Law at Clayton Utz for 25 years. He is also President of the Law Council of Australia and an Adjunct Professor, Work and Organisational ...
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Take a Hard Look at Policy Manuals After NLRB Decisions
Texas Lawyer
Its personal and often immediate nature provides a number of ways for employers and employees to get crosswise. But in-house counsel can help their companies navigate this fast-changing area of the law, even as recent National Labor Relations Board ...
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Lawyer Spots Sea Change in Wage and Hour Court Battles
LawyersandSettlements.com
Lipman is something of a pioneer in the field of wage and hour law. When he began taking these cases in the early 1990s, he was one of three or four lawyers in the New York area practicing this kind of plaintiff labour law. Since then, the number of ...
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Employment Ace Decamps To Jackson Lewis' Phoenix Office
Law360 (subscription)
Law360, New York (March 29, 2013, 1:34 PM ET) -- Jackson Lewis LLP has bolstered its ranks in Phoenix with the addition of a versatile employment law veteran who previously headed up the employment counseling and litigation group at Ridenour Hienton ...
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ADA: Don't let procedural hurdles stop accommodations process
Business Management Daily
ADA: Don't let procedural hurdles stop accommodations process. by The HR Specialist: Texas Employment Law on March 29, 2013 4:00pm in Firing,Human Resources. Employees with disabilities have the right to request reasonable ADA accommodations.
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EEOC Warns Employers Against Domestic Violence Discrimination
The National Law Review
The EEOC reminds employers that while Federal law does not expressly protect domestic violence victims from employment discrimination, such victims may still be entitled to protection under federal employment discrimination laws. In its guidance, the ...
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Beware double standard against working moms
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Minnesota Employment Law on March 29, 2013 12:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,Firing,Human Resources. Here's an important reminder that it takes just one Neanderthal boss to launch a lawsuit: Treating working mothers ...
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Keep thorough records of skills-testing processes and results to counter ...
Business Management Daily
Keep thorough records of skills-testing processes and results to counter claims of bias. by The HR Specialist: California Employment Law on March 30, 2013 8:30am in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. Do you administer make-or-break ...
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Ex-Bingham Associate With Sleep Disorder Wins Round at Appeal Court
Law.com
Boston-based Bingham cannot compel arbitration because its employment arbitration agreement includes a Massachusetts choice-of-law provision, but doesn't meet Massachusetts procedures for waiving statutory rights. "Defendants were the drafters of a ...
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Delay expected in effects of Michigan's right-to-work law
TriValley Central
The protesters are demonstrating against the new right-to-work law that allows workers to decide not to pay dues to a union as a condition of employment. Posted: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:44 am. Delay expected in effects of Michigan's right-to-work law ...
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New minimum wage law should consider needs of various trades
Daily Monitor
The objective of the law is to provide for the establishment of minimum wages advisory boards and wages councils, and for the regulation of the remuneration and conditions of employment of employees. The law applies to all those in employment except ...
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The Legal Toolkit is Back
Legal Talk Network
Before joining LOMAP, Alexander ran a solo law practice and a web consulting business. She has practiced employment law and litigation, clerked for a justice on the highest court of New Jersey, and worked helping entrepreneurs launch and grow their ...
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Employment Lawyers "Kolman Ely PC" Offers Free Consultation And Works On A ...
EIN News (press release)
Free Employment Law Consultation For Victims Of Wrongful Termination, Sexual Harassment, Workplace Discrimination & Hostile Work Environments By Pennsylvania Employment Lawyers With Offices In Pittsburgh, Penndel & Philadelphia. PITTSBURGH ...
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Wage theft is not uncommon
Daily Camera
According to "Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers," a study by the National Employment Law Project, the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center on Urban Economic Development, workers in Chicago, New York City, and Los ...
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Health reform: IRS issues new rules on play-or-pay option
Business Management Daily
Health reform: IRS issues new rules on play-or-pay option. by The HR Specialist: Employment Law on March 29, 2013 1:00pm in Employment Law,Human Resources. The IRS has released regulations to explain the hefty penalties that covered employers ...
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Get Smart About Noncompetes
Texas Lawyer
Understanding how noncompetes work can bolster the company's efforts to recruit the skilled, experienced employees that other companies in the industry can't retain. A shrewd legal department develops a company's reputation for respecting competitors' ...
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Employer's Liability Insurance
SkinInc.com
Employment-related claims are brought forward by current, former or potential employees when they feel their rights have been violated. Since federal and state laws protect the rights of workers, employees who feel that they have been unjustly treated ...
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Medical marijuana in the workplace
WCSH-TV
It's a new treatment for him, and presents new challenges to employers in Maine who are trying to navigate the law. Charles Einseidler, a labor and employment attorney, says workers are starting to pull out their medical marijuana cards and employers ...
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Raid on to find free visa workers in Saudi
Manoramaonline
Since the Labour Ministry is digitally linked to the Home Ministry and General Organisation for Social Insurance, any labour law violation can be easily identified. The minister said that no company has been excluded from the punitive measures for ...
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Mexico's grand bargaining
Washington Post
In a matter of months, their legislators have approved groundbreaking shake-ups of labor law and education, stripping unions of their corrupt control over teaching positions and making it easier for companies to hire and fire workers. Now they are ...
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Lawyer says state unfair to union, but prison guards' spin-off vote can proceed
Journal Times
The defection of 5,700 prison guards and other state employees would further sting the state workers' union, which is already reeling from the effects of Act 10 of 2011, a state law that removed most public sector union rights. WSEU's dues-paying ...
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Sex offenders cheer minor victory in possible law change
WDEF News 12
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A proposal in Texas that would strip employment information from the state's sex offender registry is being cheered by those on the list as a minor but extraordinary easing of the law. Statehouses nationwide work on legislation ...
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What's Behind Criticisms of Those Red Equal Signs in Your Facebook Feed?
Huffington Post (blog)
Many folks still remember them dropping the "T" while attempting to push the Employment Non-Discrimination Act through Congress in 2007... and it still failed to capture enough votes to pass in the Senate and become law. They've since reverted to ...
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New federal scrutiny in wake of Center and NPR grain bin "drownings" report
The Center for Public Integrity
chair of the Senate Employment and Workplace Safety subcommittee, said, "Updating our workplace safety laws and enforcement tools will reduce the number of work related injuries and deaths." PAWA makes felony charges possible when repeated and ...
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Older Japanese must work longer without crowding out the young
The Daily Yomiuri
The current law calls for companies to make efforts to enable employees to work until the age of 65 after the retirement age of 60, either by abolishing the mandatory age limit, raising the age limit or implementing reemployment measures for retired ...
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Anderson Chamber has workers' compensation seminar Wednesday
Oak Ridge Today
Her law practice focuses on workers' compensation defense, employment law, general civil practice, and subrogation. Lowe graduated from the University of Tennessee-Martin as a magna cum laude University Scholar with a bachelor's degree in English.
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MBIE warns retailers over Easter trading
NZ City
Warnings have been issued to 23 businesses that might be tempted to flout Easter trading laws, after they traded last Easter. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has issued the warnings to remind businesses of the rules on Easter ...
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Equality in the Workplace
Vital VOICE
All of the rankings and criteria are taken from the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Every year the HRC scores major companies on their LGBT-related policies and practices. Categories ranged from equal employment opportunity ...
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Mike Bloomberg Gives Debunked Excuse For Opposing Paid Sick Leave ...
ThinkProgress
But after implementation of the paid sick-leave law, San Francisco experienced an increase in employment. A study by the Drum Major Institute found that employment in San Francisco increased 3.5 percent between the start of 2006 and the start of 2010.
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Former CIA Employees Claim Pot Raid Prompted By Indoor Gardening
Huffington Post
April 20 long has been used by marijuana enthusiasts to celebrate the illegal drug and more recently by law enforcement for raids and crackdowns. But the Hartes' attorney, Cheryl Pilate, said she suspects the couple's 1,825-square-foot split level was ...
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Bill nullifying Metro's construction prevailing wage heads to Haslam's desk
The Tennessean
Two years ago, the governor cleared a law that nullified a Metro ordinance requiring companies that do business with the city to adopt employment protections from gay, lesbian and transgender people. A 1997 Metro law requires contractors on city ...
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Federal appeals judge blocks portions of Indiana's immigration law
nwitimes.com
Additionally, the law made it illegal to use identification cards issued by consulates of foreign countries, required most Indiana businesses to check the immigration status of new employees and forbade the distribution of state aid to illegal ...
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How–and why–DOMA became law in 1996
MSNBC
... would extend employment discrimination protections to gays and lesbians in the workplace." President Clinton did not get his wish there. ENDA has been discussed repeated on Capitol Hill over the years, most recently in 2011, but has never become law.
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Former California state employee arrested on conflict charges
Sacramento Bee
California's top law enforcement agency is prosecuting one of its own, a Rancho Cordova man charged with felony conflict of interest over a contract made while he worked for the attorney general. James Joseph Brown Jr. was arrested this month on ...
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Con-Dem Britain: Worse than days of Thatcher
Morning Star Online
In the early '80s Thatcher set out to break the power of organised labour, using and abusing employment law to outlaw secondary action to beat first the printers, then the miners and then the dockers. In that time she also took on the Greater London ...
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Five ways to prepare for Portland's sick leave mandate
Portland Business Journal (blog)
The law takes effect at the start of 2014, and applies to all private-sector employers with at least six employees. Employers will be required to provide workers who put in at least 240 hours in a calendar year with up to 40 hours of paid sick leave ...
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Labor & Employment Law Alert - Indiana Governor Expected To ...
Labor & Employment Law Alert - Indiana Governor Expected To Sign Bill That Would Restrict Local Government Entities from Setting Laws on Leave. 3/28/2013 ...
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Employment Law Briefing - McGuireWoods LLP
Volume 7 | Spring 2013. Briefing. Employment Law. Securing company property and confidential information is vital if companies are to protect trade secrets and ...
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USDOJ: Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Forsyth ...
Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Forsyth County, North Carolina Sheriff to Resolve Employment Rights Claim of a North Carolina Army National ...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/March/13-crt-359.html
Employment Law Checklists and Forms | Legal Solutions
Buy Employment Law Checklists and Forms at Legal Solutions from Thomson Reuters. Get free shipping on law books.
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Labor & Employment | Labor / Employment Law
Can't Attend? Audio & Materials, May 3, 2013. Bloomington, MN, View Detail. Seminar, Employment Law: 2013 Comprehensive Guide · Can't Attend? Audio & ...
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