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• Show Me the Money: Demonstrating Value as a New Lawyer

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 478
  Everyone knows the continuing economic recession has put tremendous pressure on the big firm staffing model. Layoffs continue and most major firms have drastically reduced their entry level hiring. Even if you can get a big firm position, or keep the one you have, what will it pay? The answer looks like less than you ...
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• Find Time to Honor Yourself and Your Relationships with Boundaries

  
  SoloSavvy Blog for Solo Entrepreneurs — Authority: 135
  Finding time for what matters most, when we all have too much on our plates is a daily challenge for most of us. It’s a challenge that is difficult for everyone – and can be made more difficult for women because so many of us are socialized to say “yes” to others’ needs and wants , almost without ...
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• Answers to tricky HR questions: ‘Key-employee’ provision allows denial of FMLA?

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  Our team of experts fields real-life everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s question: Does the “key-employee” provision of the law allow employers to deny FMLA leave to some employees? Question: We recently were ...
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• Bias Complaint Against Williams Mullen Alleges Cucumber Prank

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 679
  A former case manager for the Richmond, Va.-based Williams Mullen law firm has filed a sexual harassment and discrimination complaint that claims she was subjected to derogatory remarks and a prank involving a cucumber. The 18-year employee, Hanh Nguyen Allgood, seeks $950,000 in the federal suit filed in Norfolk, ...
  2 days ago

• We Fight for Those Who Cannot Fight For Themselves

  
  California Employee Rights Blog — Authority: 91
  George Washington once said: Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments [July 29, 1759]. The advocates of consumer rights, viewing the resources of defense firms and ...
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• Are You Ready for 2010?

  
  SoloSavvy Blog for Solo Entrepreneurs — Authority: 135
  The trick-or-treaters have come and gone come, and turkeys are starting to appear at the grocery store. Along with the impending holidays, it’s also that time when we start thinking about ideas for next year. What’s possible? What dreams do you have for your business and for your life? Is this the year where they ...
  3 days ago

• Watch out: Wellness programs may trigger workers’ comp claims

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  Can an off-duty employee who’s injured while participating in an exercise class at his work site be entitled to workers’ compensation? Yes — if the employer sponsors the activity, said a New York appellate court in a recent workers’ comp case . What happened Frank Torre worked for Logic Technology, a ...
  3 days ago

• Are You Ready for GINA?

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 425
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) goes into effect November 21 . Are you ready? In short, GINA imposes strict confidentiality rules on genetic information and prohibits: discrimination based on genetic information; employers from collecting genetic information, with very narrow exceptions; ...
  3 days ago

• Paddles, Portages And Pings On Leadership

  
  SoloSavvy Blog for Solo Entrepreneurs — Authority: 135
  After 3 long days of a very intensive workshop in Toronto, a group of us decided to go canoeing for a day, up in Barre, Ontario (an hour north of Toronto) on the Nottawasaga River. It was a warm day, the water was warm, and no one else was on this pristine flat-water river winding through a protected swamp. We had ...
  3 days ago

• Author Melanie Bueckert discusses employee monitoring law

  
  Slaw — Authority: 600
  I’ve never pre-ordered a textbook until Melanie Bueckert’s “The Law of Employee Monitoring in Canada.” This is no slight to Melanie’s fantastic background, but I didn’t expect much. Though there are exceptions, many privacy texts tend to be thin on substance, perhaps because the domain is evolving so ...
  3 days ago

• Disability Attorney Named to Board of Advisors at St. Johns University Center for Labor and Employment Law

  
  The New York Disability Law Blog — Authority: 106
  I am looking forward to attending the Inaugural Dinner of the new St. Johns University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law at the Williams Club in New York City this Thursday. In attendance will be our Law Schools  new Dean, Michael A. Simons .  I am deeply honored to have been asked to become an ...
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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 ...
  4 days ago

• Supreme Court Decision Will Affect Location of Many Business Lawsuits

  
  New Jersey Employment Law Blog — Authority: 112
  Hertz v. Friend, when decided by the US Supreme Court, will decide one of those issues --- where is a corporations principal place of business for jurisdictional purposes? --- that seems almost silly from a common sense perspective.   That hasnt kept the federal courts from adopting different approaches that have ...
  4 days ago

• AAUPs New Campaign to Protect Faculty Voice at Public Universities

  
  Workplace Prof Blog — Authority: 507
  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...
  4 days ago

• Age Claims Down?

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 425
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Quarterly Litigation Index

  
  Welcome to the Manpower Employment Blawg — Authority: 425
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Employment Law Latest

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 431
  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 ...
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• Doe v. Wal-Mart: Must Common Law be Reformed to Protect Workers?

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 592
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 505
  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, ...
  6 days ago

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