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(New Court Cases)
Lay Down The Law
(New or Amended Laws)
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows
(Government Initiatives)
E.L.B.W. (Abbreviations for Employment Law Buzz Words)
It's a Charge (Filing of an EEOC Charge)
100
An employer has the burden to prove that its refusal to reinstate a worker coming off of this type of leave did not violate the law.
What is FMLA?
100
Today the regulations implementing this statute become effective, with a list of conditions that will “virtually always” be considered an impairment covered by the law.
What is the ADAAA?
100
This federal agency conducts periodic compensation audits on government contractors.
What is the OFCCP?
100
FMLA
What is the abbreviation for the Family and Medical Leave Act?
100
An employee does not need this type of trusted advisor in order to file a charge of discrimination.
What is a lawyer?
200
This statute does not cover an employee’s claim for unlawful workplace harassment based on his or her military service.
What is USERRA?
200
Employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act must take this type of action with National Labor Relations Board notices of employee rights under the labor law.
What is to post?
200
President Obama has nominated Terence Flynn, of this political party, to fill the National Labor Relations Board’s fifth board slot.
What is Republican?
200
OFCCP
What is the abbreviation for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs?
200
An employee can file a charge with the EEOC to bring a complaint under the Equal Pay Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and this statute.
What is Title VII?
300
An employee who abruptly left work, sent his manager a note that he needed “the next couple of days” off to attend to his mom, and then failed to respond to his employer’s telephone calls and did not return to work for nine days, did not give his employer sufficient notice for protection from being disciplined or discharged under this statute.
What is the FMLA?
300
Maryland recently joined Illinois, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon in passing state laws regulating employer's use of this type of information.
What is credit information?
300
In April a new bill was introduced in the Senate focusing on employers who mistakenly classify employees as this type of worker.
What is an independent contractor?
300
ADAAA
What is the abbreviation for the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act?
300
In an EEOC deferral state, meaning a state where there is also a state or local agency that handles a state law that covers the same type of discrimination, a charging party has this number of days after a discriminatory act occurs to file a discrimination claim with the EEOC.
What is 300?
400
An employer did not violate this statute when, after terminating an employee for testing positive for illegal drugs, the employee went through a one-month inpatient rehabilitation program, then reapplied for his same previous job, and the employer refused to hire him back into his old job.
What is the ADA?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!! The Department of Labor's revised Fair Labor Standards Act regulations prohibit employers from using this type of method of pay to pay their employees.
What is the fluctuating workweek method of pay?
400
The Department of Labor recently issued a fact-sheet outlining six criteria for determining when this type of worker can work for an employer without getting paid.
What is an intern?
400
USERRA
What is the abbreviation for the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act?
400
In an EEOC non-deferral state, meaning a state where no state or local agency exists or is recognized as being able to handle the same type of discrimination claims, a charging party has this number of days after a discriminatory act occurs to file a discrimination claim with the EEOC.
What is 180?
500
When working for the same company, my brother can sue our employer for this type of action if he is fired after I file a charge of discrimination on my own behalf against our employer.
What is retaliation?
500
Dog The Bounty Hunter would like to be a whistleblower who voluntarily provides original information to the SEC leading to an enforcement action resulting in monetary penalties against a company of more than $1m, which allows Dog to receive an award between 10-30% of that amount under this law.
What is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010?
500
The OFCCP proposed requiring government contractors to establish annual benchmarks for hiring this category of workers.
What is a veteran?
500
VEVRAA
What is the abbreviation for the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act?
500
After a charging party receives an EEOC dismissal of his or her discrimination charge, he or she has to institute proceedings in this forum within 90 days if he or she wishes to pursue the claim.
What is federal court?