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Selected articles concerning employment related issues noted by law firms

Selected articles concerning employment related issues noted by law firms
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New York - 2010 New York State legislative update
Jackson Lewis LLP
During the 2010 Legislative Term, the New York State Legislature enacted and Governor David A. Paterson signed a number of laws relevant to New York employers.

Kentucky - Can employers prohibit employees from expressing their religious views in the workplace?
Bond Schoeneck & King
An interesting case from the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky addresses a particularly difficult religious accommodation question: at what point can an employer prohibit an employee from expressing religious views in the workplace?

Supreme Court to hear several cases affecting labor and employment
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
In Stinson's June 2010 Executive Briefing, we advised you of the U.S. Supreme Court cases (opinions, pending, heard or selected) affecting employers.

Recent Family and Medical Leave Act developments: who is a ?parent? for purposes of child-related leave under the FMLA?
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recently issued guidance clarifying that employees who are neither the biological nor legal parent or guardian of a child may nevertheless be entitled to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for the birth, adoption, or care of that child if the employee?s relationship with the child meets certain criteria.

New employer obligations to nursing mothers under the Fair Labor Standards Act
Poyner & Spruill LLP
The Department of Labor recently issued a fact sheet addressing the new break time requirement for nursing mothers mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).

Department of Labor publishes new interim whistleblower regulations
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
On August 31, 2010, the Department of Labor (DOL) published new regulations governing whistleblower complaints brought under four distinct federal statutes: (i) the National Transit Systems Security Act (NTSSA), (ii) the Federal Railroad Safety Act (FRSA), (iii) the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), and (iv) the Surface Transportation Assistance Act (STAA).

One little mistake . . .
Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in Young v. Verizon's Bell Atlantic Cash Balance Plan, Nos. 09-3872 & 09-3965 (7th Cir. 2010), recently issued a decision that saved Verizon Communications, Inc. (Verizon) $1.67 billion in benefit costs due to a drafting error (scrivener's error) in its pension plan, according to the court.

Campus police measures reviewed by committee
Duane Morris LLP
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on September 1, 2010 on two bills regarding campus police.

Florida - Losing Florida Senate candidate files $500 million libel suit
Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP
Jeff Greene, who was recently routed in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida, has filed a massive -- in more ways than one -- defamation suit against the St. Petersburg Times and the Miami Herald.
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Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).