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Employment and Labor

Public Safety Employer – Employee Cooperation Act Of 2009: Does The Federal Government Really Know What Is Best For Local Governments?

  The 111st Congress introduced House Resolution 413 Public Safety Employer – Employee Cooperation Act...

Employment and Labor

The United States Supreme Court Announces New Rule For First Amendment Free Speech Cases: Public Employee Whistle-Blowers Need Not Apply

Originally published in The Florida Bar Journal, Volume 80, No. 9  October 2005 On May...

Employment and Labor

PINing in the Public Arena: Beware of Private Texting

First published in the October 31, 2009 newsletter for FPERLA (Florida Public Empoyer Labor Relations Association)...

Employment and Labor

EEOC Updates GINA Act

Background Information for EEOC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking On Title II of the Genetic Information...

Employment and Labor

Employee Free Choice Act : Employers Need to Act Now

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has come back to life with the full support...

Employment and Labor

Revamping the ADA

On September 25, 2008, the President signed the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008...

Employment and Labor

Department of Labor Considers New Regulations for Military Leave Under FMLA

Most people are aware that the Family & Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) allows eligible employees...

Employment and Labor

Employee Free Choice Act Awaits Presidential Election

There is a good chance that the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) may come  back...

Employment and Labor

Understanding Reduction in Force Issues for the Employer

Though it seems that nobody can agree as to whether we are in a recession,...

Employment and Labor

The Employer Reference Problem: How Much, if Anything, to Disclose?

Virtually every employer will be contacted at some point by a potential new employer of...