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		<title>Sexual Harassment and the Faithless Servant Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 2008 LEL Newsletter discussed one type of disloyal employee conduct  – competing with the employee’s employer while still an employee of that  employer.  http://www.lera.illinois.edu/Pubs/newsletters/LELNewsletters/2008/March2008.htm As discussed there, disloyalty does not include all actions an employer might  consider disloyal. It is a very narrow doctrine, limited to specific sorts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Status</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the legal areas in which there is great confusion is deciding whether  a worker is an employee. Confusion on this issue is a serious problem, because  employee status affects whether a person is covered by workplace statues. An  example of this sort of confusion may be found in a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressional Research Service, Kathleen S. Swendiman &#38; Nancy Lee Jones,  The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Selected Legal Issues R40560 September 1, 2009 http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40560_20090901.pdf
Congressional Research Service, Sarah A. Lister &#38; C. Stephen Redhead, The  2009 Influenza Pandemic: An Overview R40554 September 10, 2009 House Education and Labor Committee&#8217;s hearing on Nevada&#8217;s Workplace Safety  and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Labor and Employment Law Articles</title>
		<link>http://lel-is.lerablog.org/2009/11/recent-labor-and-employment-law-articles-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothea Alewell &#38; Andreas Nicklisch, Wage Differentials and Social  Comparison: A n Experimental Study of Interrelated Ultimatum Bargaining, 29  Int&#8217;l Rev. L. &#38; Econ. 210 (2009)
Irene Ayers, The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement  of Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession, 1 Duke F. for L. &#38; Soc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remedies - Piercing the Corporate Veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ One of the benefits of operating a business through a corporation is limiting liability to just the assets of the corporation. However, under some conditions, a plaintiff or creditor may pierce the “corporate veil” and seek monetary remedies. The usual target is owners of a corporation who have not treated it as a separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disguised Continuance Alter Egos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another finding that can mean one entity is liable for another entity’s legal obligations is the alter ego or the disguised continuance alter ego doctrine. The alter ego involves two related entities that operate at the same time, for example, a “double-breasted” company. The disguised continuance alter ego involves a company that claims to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NLRA Violation for Refusing to Hire Employees in Order to Avoid Successorship Status</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An employer (1) who buys or performs the work of a business and (2) whose employees include a majority of the prior employer’s employees may be found to have succeeded to the prior employer’s bargaining obligations. When an employer is a successor, it must recognize and bargain with the union that represented the employees of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NLRA Violation for Firing a Supervisor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ The National Labor Relations Act protects only employees. Employee status is very broad and includes “any employee” without regard to whether there is a relationship of employer and employee. The NLRA, however, excludes supervisors from the definition of employee. However, supervisors can be protected by the NLRA when protections are necessary to prevent violations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in National Labor Relations Board v. Laurel Baye Healthcare of Lake Lanier, Inc., September 29, 2009 http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/documents/Laurel_Baye_Pet_Final.pdf
Response to a Certiorari Petition in New Process Steel, L.P. v. National   Labor Relations Board, September 29, 2009   http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/shared_files/documents/New_Process_Steel_08-1457.pdf
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Labor and Employment Law Articles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothea Alewell, et alia, The Impact of Dismissal Protection on Employers&#8217; Cost of Terminating Employment Relations in Germany: an Overview of Empirical Research and its White Spots, 30 Comp. Lab. L. &#38; Pol&#8217;y J. 667 (2009)
Sarah Altschuller &#38; Amy Lehr, Corporate Social Responsibility, 43 Int&#8217;l   Law. 577 (2009)
Bradford Anderson, Comment: Edwards v. Arthur [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discrimination and Remedies under the Uniformed Services Employment &#038; Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)</title>
		<link>http://lel-is.lerablog.org/2009/07/discrimination-and-remedies-under-the-uniformed-services-employment-reemployment-rights-act-userra/</link>
		<comments>http://lel-is.lerablog.org/2009/07/discrimination-and-remedies-under-the-uniformed-services-employment-reemployment-rights-act-userra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent case from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals does a nice job laying out the burdens of proof for claims of discrimination and the remedies available under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). The case involved a railroad employee who was a member of the Tennessee Army National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company Laptops, Private Employee Emails, and Privacy Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent case of an employee who used her company laptop to email her lawyers about a lawsuit she was considering filing against her employer makes for interesting reading. The court noted that she used her password-protected personal account to send the email messages, showing that she made efforts to keep them private. The employer’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking up Is Hard to Do - Trade Secrets, Departing Employees, and the Duty of Loyalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of problems regularly occur together when employees leave their employer, and a recent case from North Dakota provides a good example of those problems in the areas of duty of loyalty, trade secrets, and tortious interference with business advantage. These cases are also often won or lost based on whether the former employer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FMLA Documentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent case provides a reminder to employers to check regulations under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) before taking actions or creating rules related to family and medical leave. In a recent case, an employer ran afoul of the law by requiring an employee to turn in documentation to verify her condition – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Compensation and Payment for Spousal Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arizona Supreme Court recently addressed a common workers compensation issue – whether compensation is required when a spouse provides care services to an injured employee. In this case, the wife of the injured employee regularly provided care during periods when paid attendants were not in the house, including being required to wake up during [...]]]></description>
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