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2nd Quarter (2002)
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important to keep on top of news in the legal
and legislative world. We also recognize the benefit
of dialogue within the community. We think sharing
knowledge is powerful.
In This Issue (available
as a Acrobat Reader PDF, to download Acrobat Reader please click on the icon ):
BEINSAXELROD: On
the Job
Legislative
Watch:
Your Lawmakers At Work
- Federal
Workers Civil Rights Bolstered with Accountability
Provisions of "NoFEAR" Act
- Hill Conducts Hearings on Unionization
of Homeland Security Workers
Recent Cases In The Workplace:
You Be The Judge
Labor:
- Supreme
Court Tightens Bill Johnson's Standards
- Supreme
Court Won't Review Case Extending Weingarten
Rights to Non-Unionized Workplaces
- D.C. Circuit Rejects Claim That
Package Delivery Drivers Are Independent Contractors
- And More...
ERISA:
- Supreme Court Finds ERISA Doesn't
Preempt State HMO Law Requiring Independent
Medical Review of Plan's Medical Necessity Determination
- First Circuit Reinstates Discharged
Employee's Claim Employer Violated ERISA Section
510 by Terminating Her To Deprive Her of Benefits
- And More...
Individual Employment Rights:
- Supreme Court Allows Employer
to Decide Whether an Employee May Assume a Health
Risk
- Supreme Court Makes It Tougher
for Statute of Limitations Defenses in "Pattern
and Practice" Discrimination Cases
- Supreme Court To Review FMLA's
Applicability to State Government Employers
- Back (Pay) Pain
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