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• Reminder: Medicare notice deadline coming soon

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The deadline for providing the Medicare Part D creditable coverage notice is almost here. Any employer who sponsors a health plan with prescription drug coverage must provide the notice by Nov. 15. If you sponsor such a plan, your notice must explain the benefits provided under your prescription drug plan and ...
  17 hours ago

• AAUPs New Campaign to Protect Faculty Voice at Public Universities

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 541
  The American Association of University Professors has instituted a new campaign to protect academic freedom and free speech at public universities. From the AAUPs press release on "Speak Up, Speak Out: Protect the Faculty Voice,”The foundation of the project is...
  18 hours ago

• Age Claims Down?

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 469
  According to the National Law Journal , the EEOC will soon release statistics showing that age claims declined in the past year — defying all conventional wisdom. The EEOC says that age claims were down 7% last year. That’s pretty shocking, especially considering all the RIF activity nationwide and the EEOC’s ...
  1 day ago

• Who won this case: Boss mistakenly denies disability break

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  An employee is granted a disability accommodation, and all goes well until a substitute boss mistakenly revokes the accommodation. Who won this real-life court case? The facts: An employee who was being treated for cancer suffered from dry mouth and throat as a side effect of the treatment, and had to ...
  2 days ago

• Quarterly Litigation Index

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 469
  Record EEOC claims . Rising litigation . Soaring damage awards . It’s a simple formula: economy down = lawsuits up. Or so the experts say. Each quarter, we check to see what our loyal Blawg visitors are experiencing. At our most recent webinar, we asked our 1,531 attendees: Are you seeing an increase in ...
  2 days ago

• Employment Law Latest

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 430
  I was talking the other day to a fellow small businessman and we were remarking just how difficult it is becoming to simply conduct one’s business. I will say right here without any fear of contradiction that anyone who runs a business with a handful of employees and claims to do so 100% within the law is quite ...
  2 days ago

• Doe v. Wal-Mart: Must Common Law be Reformed to Protect Workers?

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  Outsourcing, with or without offshoring, through extended supply chains of goods and services has come to be a common way to organize a business. Using contract law to divide and subdivide what was once a single enterprise (or start one from scratch) into separate legal entities is ever more useful to businesses as ...
  3 days ago

• Belief in global warming protected from discrimination in UK labour law

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 537
  Image From National Post via WattUpWithThat? In the public policy debates over climate change, critics of strong action to mitigate global warming have often described proponents as “religious zealots”, and vice-versa. Moreover, since the concern over global warming has entered the mainstream consciousness, ...
  3 days ago

• Exploding Text-Harrassment Cases Create Pitfalls for Defense Attorneys

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  As supervisors increasingly make objectionable comments to employees via text messages, resulting harassment cases over after-hours comments no longer are based simply on "he said, she said" evidence. But this seeming bonanza of proof for plaintiffs lawyers is surrounded by potential pitfalls for defense attorneys, ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Star Associate’ Alleges Breakdown Over Work Conditions, Sues Sedgwick & Partner

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 678
  A former associate in the New York office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold has filed a disability discrimination suit against the firm and an a partner he alleges was abusive, contending that he was driven to a breakdown with overwork and mistreatment and then abruptly fired when he had recovered and was ready to ...
  4 days ago

• The Office: Weekly Analysis & Contest

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 469
  In my humble opinion, NBC’s The Office is the world’s #1 employment law training aid. All you have to do is (1) watch it and (2) do the exact opposite of everything you see. To help enhance your viewing experience, each week I provide a critique of the action from an employment lawyer’s perspective. Last ...
  4 days ago

• 3 big reasons why arbitration agreements fail in court

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  An arbitration agreement is supposed to be designed to keep everyone out of court. Then why is it that so many end up being settled in a messy and expensive lawsuit? The answer comes in examining a series of court cases that explain: Why a supposedly buttoned-up agreement ended up in court in the first place, and ...
  5 days ago

• House Set to Act Fast Now that Senate Finally Passed Jobless Aid Extension

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 657
  BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon passed the unemployment insurance extension bill, by a 403-12 vote. The bill is on its way to President Barack Obama who could sign it as early as tomorrow. After weeks of Republican stalling and obstruction that cost hundreds of thousands of jobless ...
  5 days ago

• Podcast of My September 2009 Seminar for the University of Illinois Alumni Association

  
  Charles A. Krugel — Authority: 103
  On September 24, 2009, I presented at the University of Illinois’ “Finding Talent” program for employers & recruiters. My presentation concerned legal issues surrounding background checking, electronic communication & social networking in recruiting & selection. My seminar handout, PowerPoint, some ...
  5 days ago

• It’s All About Leadership

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 469
  Manpower’s own Melanie Holmes was kind enough to ask me to appear as a guest blogger on her Contemporary Working Blog . Because I’m such a nice guy, I donated not one, but two posts. Click here for the absolute #1 most important question you should ask yourself about leadership and then here for the ...
  5 days ago

• Want Some Great Reference Materials? ABA Labor & Employment Law Section Materials Now Online

  
  Connecticut Employment Law Blog — Authority: 466
  Last year I attended and spoke a t the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section.   Over the last few years, the meeting has developed into one of the premier conferences to keep up to date on labor and employment law. This years meeting is now going on in Washington, D.C. ...
  5 days ago

• Cowardly Cameron Continues His Fountain of Lies over Lisbon Treaty

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  Tory leader David Cameron continued with his pathological lying over the Lisbon Treaty today, falsely claiming that he would reverse parts of the new EU constitution — even though all the items he listed either already exist or cannot be done. Mr Cameron today backed down from his “cast-iron guarantee” that if ...
  6 days ago

• Alaska Legal Miscellanea: Immigration Law for Employment Lawyers, and Discovery in Federal Court

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 121
  ELS meeting: Today’s meeting of the Employment Law Section will host Margaret Stock’s presentation on “Immigration for Employment Lawyers.”  Margaret’s materials may be found here.Discovery of computer software:    U. S. District Judge John Sedwick has ordered a defendant to produce the “native ...
  6 days ago

• The Employer’s Strategy in Gross v. FBL Financials

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  Last Term in Gross v. FBL Financials, a 5-4 decision written by Justice Thomas, the Court decided that a plaintiff bringing a claim of individual disparate treatment age discrimination — an ADEA action — must prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that age was the “but-for” cause of defendant’s treatment ...
  6 days ago

• New Report Details the Chilling Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Workers’ Rights

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  Our broken immigration system gives unscrupulous employers an incentive to hire unauthorized workers and exploit them—often resulting in depressed wages and working conditions for all workers in that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  6 days ago

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