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Winter 2008 Newsletter
Family Responsibilities and the Workplace There is no federal law called the “Family Responsibilities Discrimination Act” or the “Caregiver Discrimination Act.” Nonethelesss, there has been an increase in claims brought under a variety of federal statutes on behalf of job applicants of workers who assert discrimination by an employer on the basis of family-related decisions. […]
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Fall 2008 Newsletter
Insights and Developments in the Law Get it in Writing When an Internet executive held a meeting with the chairman of a telecommunications company, the agenda was a new business idea that the Internet executive had. The discussion was transformed into a recruitment when the telecommunications executive suggested that the idea should be pursued within […]
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Summer 2008 Newsletter
Insights and Developments in the Law Employer Forced to Pay Unapproved Overtime An enforcement action by the U.S. Department of Labor resulted in a ruling that nurses were employees, not independent contractors, of a staffing agency that provided them on a temporary basis to hospitals. After this ruling, the agency took action to attempt to […]
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Spring 2008 Newsletter
Insights and Developments in the Law Real Estate Roundup Flood Zone Fraud A jury recently gave a hefty damages award to homeowners who sued a real estate company for falsely representing that the home they were buying was not located in a flood zone. When the rains came after the homeowners had moved in, the […]