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The Sixth Circuit recently held that giving a COBRA notice to an employee is not sufficient notice with respect to . -
On June 1, 2005, Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 7 (HB7), which provides for sweeping changes to the workers' compensation system in the state of Texas. Prompted by an outdated, expensive system that did little to encourage injured employees to return to work, HB7 contains a number of major changes that will affect the way employee injuries are handled in Texas. -
Recognizing that the federal minimum wage has fallen to its lowest inflation-adjusted value of all time, and commenting that wages are "so low that workers and their families can't afford their most basic needs," the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Equal Rights Division ("ERD") amended its labor standards rules to make significant changes to the state minimum wage requirements, including an increase to minimum wages. -
OSHA increases its enforcements efforts by pursuing potential criminal prosecutions against corporate officers for high gravity citations especially when fatalities occur in the workplace. -
Calling it a "close case," the First Circuit deemed the employer's notice of a new arbitration policy insufficient to bind the employee to arbitration when he brought a claim under the ADA. The court's analysis, however, provides guidance to employers on providing adequate notice via e-mail. -
The splitting of the AFL-CIO and the emergence of a separate union coalition, Change to Win, means employers must prepare themselves to operate in this new, aggressive union environment. -
The Department of Labor recently revised its Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (VFCP). Adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to encourage plan fiduciaries to comply with the provisions of ERISA by providing relief from certain penalties and enforcement actions, VFCP permits employers to proactively remedy fiduciary violations under ERISA by taking prescribed remedial actions. If a plan fiduciary complies with the requirements under VFCP, the plan fiduciary may correct certain specified fiduciary breach transactions and receive a "no action" letter from the DOL. -
In Gerety v. Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort, 2005 N.J. LEXIS 931 (July 25, 2005), the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that pregnant employees are not entitled to preferential leave treatment under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD). -
Employees in California may now sue their employers for sexual harassment if a sexual affair between a supervisor and a subordinate results in "sexual favoritism" creating a hostile work environment for those employees not involved in the affair. A unanimous California Supreme Court in Miller v. Department of Corrections held that consensual sexual affairs may constitute sexual harassment if "sexual favoritism" ? giving preference with regard to the terms of employment to a lover to the detriment of other employees ? is sufficiently widespread to create an actionable hostile work environment under California's unlawful harassment law. -
This article concerns a mothers the right to breast-feed their babies in any location in which the mother is authorized to be.