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• How to legally question a staffer’s disability accommodation request

  
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  What should you do if you doubt an employee’s need for a disability accommodation? You have several options — as long as you don’t do what this company did. April Rodriguez, a 34-year-old mother of four, worked as a customer service representative for a waste disposal company. She asked her company for ...
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• Persistent Questions About Withheld Funds Led To Retaliatory Firing Explains Chicago Employment Lawyer

  
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  Chicago, IL ( Law Firm Newswire ) May 9, 2013 - The law allows a worker to sue an employer for improperly using funds earmarked for ERISA benefits. “ George v. Junior Achievement, No. 11-3291, 7th Cir., 2012 raises an issue that is quite important to note,” stated Timothy Coffey, a Chicago employment lawyer ...
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• Spiritual Attraction Marketing: Are You Willing to Reveal Yourself to Attract Your Tribe?

  
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  Posted by Andrea Conway Law of Attraction coach for small business success When SuccessfulSelfEmployment.com launched in early 2002, I felt apprehensive. My real name, photo, and contact information were on the site for the entire world to see. Then there was my message: you can attract business success by connecting ...
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• No, You Cant Force Your Employees to Be Scientologists

  
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  So says the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in this press release , describing a lawsuit it filed today (May 9) against a Miami company. According to the EEOC, the company required employees to take Scientology courses and engage in a variety of  scientological   Scientologish   scientary stupid ...
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• Cahill steps down in Rutgers probe due to local counsel conflict, is replaced by Skadden

  
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  Last month, Cahill Gordon & Reindel was hired by Rutgers University to conduct an independent review of the schools handling of the suspension and firing of former mens basketball coach Mike Rice. But on Friday, after discovering a conflict, Cahill stepped down from the representation and has been replaced by…
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• Sidewalk Fall Compensable

  
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  The Court of Appeals affirms the commission decision holding compensable employee’s fall on an icy sidewalk outside the main entrance to her employer’s building:  the commission correctly applied the extended premises doctrine. Nurse worked for employer over 15 years.  One day in January, she fell on ice on a ...
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• Social Media in the Workplace: 6 Tips Regarding Non-Solicitation Agreements

  
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  Companies want to protect their assets, including their trade secrets, their client/customer lists, and the company’s most important asset:  its own workforce.  Companies invest significant resources to on-board new employees, put them through orientations, training sessions, retreats, and of course, provide them ...
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• Rewriting the Employee Handbook for Social Media

  
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  As a former HR professional, before practicing law, I can recall when employee handbooks were largely a creative writing exercise. Employers penned work rules that fit their business, and so long as they were applied consistently and without regard to the employee’s race, age, religion and the like, they were ...
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• Justices Will Not Review Ruling Shielding Retirees Health Care Benefits

  
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  Denying a packaging firms petition for review, the U.S. Supreme Court recently denied cert to a case which held that retirees of a Michigan plant are vested with lifetime, employer-paid health care insurance for themselves and their spouses ( Menasha...
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• Another Attack on Public Unions: New California Case to Test Public Unions Ability to Collect Dues

  
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  Thanks to Charlotte Garden (Seattle) for passing on this interesting and under-reported story about a new case just filed in California which has the potential to drastically change the way public unions operate in that state. The case is Friedrichs...
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• Interesting Whistleblower Decision from Michigan Supreme Court

  
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  Thanks to Sam Bagenstos (Michigan) for passing on this recent whistleblower decision, Whitman v. City of Burton, from the Michigan Supreme Court. Here is the summary from Justia.com (opinion also included at this link): Plaintiff Bruce Whitman had been employed...
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• City Worker’s USERRA Claim Too Late

  
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  A chief warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves, who left his job as a municipal waste manager for periods of active service with the Coast Guard, waited too long to file his suit under the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, and the 4th Circuit affirms the district court decision ...
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• State employee partner benefits in Michigan still viable

  
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  By not accepting review in a case, the Michigan Supreme Court has in effect allowed public employee partner benefits to remain in force, despite the decision by voters in 2004 to adopt a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and "similar unions." Earlier this year, an intermediate appellate court ...
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• 6 more lawyers to exit Ogletree for Littler, join ex-partner who sent ‘scathing’ email to Ogletree

  
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  After an unusual high-profile dispute between a former partner of Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart and the firm, another six lawyers are expected to leave the international labor and employment boutique Monday to join competitor Littler Mendelson, their new firm has announced. Within the last two weeks, ...
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• Immigration Attorney Joins Top Atlanta Immigration Law Firm

  
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  Atlanta, GA ( Law Firm Newswire ) May 6, 2013 - Atlanta immigration law firm Siskind Susser Immigration Lawyers is pleased to announce that immigration attorney Zulma P. López has joined the firm as an associate attorney. Zulma joins to assist our Atlanta immigration law firm’s clients in family and ...
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• Online Resources: BNA Workplace Immigration Report

  
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  If you are looking for a publication that provides workplace immigration news, expert analysis, federal and state legislation and regulations, as well as immigration enforcement actions, try Workplace Immigration Report (BNA).  Dates of coverage are from October 22, 2007 to the present. To access the Workplace ...
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• I’m Featured in M.O.com

  
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  On 5/2, I was featured in M.O.com , modus operandi or method of operating. MO.com interviews & features entrepreneurs across all industries & from around the world. They focus on entrepreneurship & what makes entrepreneurs tick.  My profile is available here & below. Thanks to everyone at ...
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• An employment horror story ends in record jury award

  
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  The tangle of employment laws is a pain for companies, no question about it. But every once in a while, a case comes along to remind us why those laws were passed in the first place.   A Davenport, IA, federal jury recently awarded $240 million to 32 men with intellectual disabilities who’d been subjected to ...
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• Bizarre case illustrates why you need strong anti-harassment policies

  
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  You know you need anti-sexual harassment policies — and this weird case shows you exactly why. Estrella Medina-Rivera worked as a part-time, on-call detention officer with MVM, a private firm that provides security services to the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In October 2008, ...
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• EEOC Recovers $240 Million For Mentally Disabled Worker’s

  
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  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Henry’s Turkey Service in Atalissa for workplace mistreatment on behalf of 32 mentally disabled men who worked at the plant.  These workers lived in the plant’s bunkhouse and were only paid $65 a month for their work.  However, that was the least of their ...
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