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FW: Legal Briefs for HR #4 - 2009
-May 5, 2009-
Welcome to Legal Briefs for HR, an update on employment issues sent to over 4000 HR professionals, in-house counsel and business owners to help them stay in the know about employment issues. Anyone is welcome to join the email group . . . just let me know you?d like to be added to the list and you?re in! Back issues are posted on my firm?s website at www.munckcarter.com under E-Newsletter. Welcome to new subscribers who attended my speeches for Odyssey One Source and the Fort Worth chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction!
1. This Little Piggy Here are just a few of the websites that may become useful to you as we all watch and hold our breath as the swath of H1N1 (swine flu) expands. For workplace safety advice, go to www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3327pandemic.pdf. For medical information, including the locations of reported cases, go to www.cdc.gov/swineflu/. Dust off your FMLA policy and take note of the changed definitions (underlined below) that took effect on January 16. For example, a serious health condition may qualify under ?continuing treatment? if it lasts more than three consecutive, full calendar days and also involves at least two in...More >>
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FW: Legal Briefs for HR #4 - 2009 (Con't)
-May 5, 2009-
6. Fair WARNing An amendment to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act was filed on April 23 in Congress. If passed, H.R. 2077 would expand notice requirements to include mass layoffs that occur at more than one site of an employer (instead of focusing on the ?single site? analysis) and increase penalties from ?back pay? to ?two times the amount of back pay.? You can always find full text and current status of federal bills at http://thomas.loc.gov.
7. More Fun with FMLA Two pending bills and a useful court case:
1. H.R. 2132 (filed April 28) ? Would expand scope of FMLA by allowing an eligible employee to use FMLA to care for a same-sex spouse, domestic partner, parent-in-law, adult child, sibling or grandparent who has a serious health condition.
2. H.R. 2161 (filed April 29) ? Would nullify certain regulations and revise others; the intent is to undo many of the recent changes to FMLA regulations that favor employers (e.g., waiving FMLA rights as part of a settlement agreement, allowing an er to have direct contact with ee?s health care provider, denying or reducing attendance bonuses where ee took FMLA leave). The bill is not posted on...More >>
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Legal Briefs for HR #1 - 2009
-February 16, 2009-
Welcome to Legal Briefs for HR, an update on employment issues sent to over 3800 HR professionals, in-house counsel and business owners. Anyone is welcome to join the email group . . . just let me know you?d like to be added to the list and you?re in! Back issues are posted on my firm?s website at www.munckcarter.com under E-Newsletter. Welcome to new subscribers who attended my half-day seminar on news laws and changes to the ADA/FMLA, hosted by Lubbock SHRM!
1. Slam on the Brakes ? USCIS announced earlier this week that employers should continue using the current Form I-9 and wait until at least April 3 before starting use of the new form, which was to have begun on Feb 2. Copies of both are posted at www.uscis.gov/i-9. What happened? The new administration exercised its right to put all pending regulations on ice, delaying effective dates until after they get a review and blessing by the new guys and gals in town.
2. Lily Arrives in May ? With a stroke of his presidential pen, Barack Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law on January 29. Even though it takes effect on May 28, cases filed after May 28, 2007 will be subject to the changed law. ...More >>
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