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Discrimination

Nursing Home's Compliance With Resident's Request For "White-Only" Health Care Providers Violated Title VII (7/21/10)
7th Cir.

Food Growers' Cooperative Will Pay $300,000 To Settle Charges Of Harassment And Retaliation Against Female Farmworkers (7/26/10)
EEOC

Corrective Action Plus "Palpable Workplace Tension" Did Not Constitute Adverse Employment Action (7/16/10)
7th Cir.

Employee With Asthma Was Not "Disabled" Within Meaning Of ADA (7/12/10)
US Dist Ct., D.C.Cir

Law Firm Shareholder Was Employer Outside Protection Of Discrimination Laws (7/15/10)
3rd Cir.

OFCCP Seeks Public Input To Strengthen Disability Regulations (6/9/10)
DOL

FMLA

Employer Denied Summary Judgment On Defense It Terminated Employee In Good Faith Belief He Misrepresented Health Status On FMLA Leave (7/9/10)
US Dist Ct., E.D.N.Y.

Benefits

Health Care Conversations: The Communication Challenge
Ceridian

4 Tips For Giving Your Business Retirement Plan A Check-Up - Before The IRS Does!
Business.gov

Best Practices

Four Steps To Increased Employee Engagement
Ceridian

Wage & Hour

Pharmaceutical Representatives Were Not Plainly And Unmistakably Within FLSA Outside Sales Exemption (6/10/10)
US Dist Ct., N.D.Ill

Terms & Conditions

Reporting Violations Of Company's Internal Policies Did Not Qualify Employee For Whistleblower Exception To At-Will Doctrine (7/20/10)
8th Cir.

Immigration

DHS Issues Final Rule On Electronic Signature And Storage Of Form I-9 (7/22/10)

Workplace Insights

Nearly One-Third Of Small Businesses To Hire New Employees In Second Half Of 2010 (7/21/10)
CareerBuilder

Usual Weekly Earnings In Second Quarter 2010 By Education (7/26/10)
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