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TriCare Network Contracts Create Affirmative Action Obligations for Health Care Providers

…women, veterans, and disabled applicants and employees. In addition, companies must engage in affirmative action outreach activities. These activities include listing open positions with the Employment Security Commission and communicating…

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HR Corner – Training and Traveling: Wage and Hour Traps for Unwary Employers

Reading Time: 2 minutes Employers often ask whether employees must be paid for training time and travel time. Employers do not need to pay employees for their regular commutes, but…

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TriCare Network Contracts Create Affirmative Action Obligations for Hospitals

…applicants and employees. In addition, companies must engage in affirmative action outreach activities. These activities include listing open positions with the Employment Security Commission and communicating with and encouraging referral…

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NLRB Proposes Rule to Require Posting of NLRA Rights

…the proposed rule and should be submitted within 60 days of publication in the Federal Register. Comments should be submitted either electronically to www.regulations.gov or by mail or hand-delivery to…

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Top Agency Enforcement Areas for Employers to Watch in 2011

…complaint against a company that fired an employee for criticizing her supervisor on Facebook. The NLRB alleged that the employer's social media policy prohibiting employees from depicting the employer “in…

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Beware: Volunteer hospital directors are personally liable for breach of duty

…loaned the hospital money, and that another physician director was not a disinterested “volunteer,” because he received excessive compensation for his board service. In addition, the court permitted the case…

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Employers must reassign disabled employees to vacant positions ahead of more qualified candidates? Seventh Circuit says, “yes.”

…were free to choose the most qualified candidate for the position even if a disabled candidate applied. In United Airlines, the company had a competitive transfer policy under which disabled…

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NC Court of Appeals Orders Injunction In OB-GYN Covenant Not To Compete Case

…is considered inadequate. The plaintiff is not required to show actual damage by instances of successful competition, but it is sufficient if such competition, in violation of the covenant, may…

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Employers’ New Year’s Resolution: Review Employee v. Independent Contractor Classifications

…Carolina Industrial Commission, and North Carolina Employment Security Commission are interested in policing the employee/independent contractor classification. The consequences of misclassifying workers are substantial. Employers could be liable for unpaid…

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Employees May Affirmatively Decline To Use FMLA Leave

…employee filed suit under the FMLA after she was terminated for failing to comply with the company’s “three day no-show, no-call rule” after the end of an approved period of…