Employee Medical Records and Files: Keep Private!
Feb 16, 2016
Every so often I receive phone calls regarding an employer's ability--or lack thereof--to reveal an employee's medical information to other people in the workplace. Obviously, such information is subj...
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Florida Jury Finds Walgreens, Pharmacist Guilty of HIPAA Violations, Awards $1.44 Million
Jul 29, 2013
This past Friday, at the conclusion of a four-day trial, a Marion County, Floridajuryawarded a woman $1.44 millionafter finding Walgreens and a pharmacist violated her privacy when the pharmacist looke...
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Tipped Employees and the Minimum Wage
Jul 10, 2013
Earlier this evening I came across a 'picture' discussing servers and the minimum wage with a goal of making patrons feel guilty if they are bad tippers--if they tip at all--but the picture was rather ...
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Wisconsin's New Budget Bill Presents Substantial Changes to Unemployment Insurance Law
Jul 08, 2013
Back when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the2013-2015 biennial budget bill (Assembly Bill 40),enacted as 2013 Wisconsin Act 20,into law, along with it came changes to the State's unemployment i...
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Fifth Circuit Holds Lactation Discrimination Amounts to Sex Discrimination Under Title VII
Jun 24, 2013
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has overturned a lower district court in Texas holding thatfiring a woman because she is lactating or expressing milk is unlawful sex discrimination under Tit...
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Re-Visiting Leave as a Reasonable Accommodation Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Mar 12, 2013
AttorneyEllen Girard Giorgiadis of Quarles Brady wrote anice brief discussionabout leave as an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
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7th Circuit Holds Light Duty is NOT a Right Employee Can Assert Under FMLA
Mar 06, 2013
Carris James was an employee of the Hyatt Regency Chicago since 1985 when he took a leave of absence in April 2007due to an eye injury that occurred outside of work when he was involved in an altercati...
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What is Boyton Cab Co. v. Neubeck in Unemployment Cases?
Feb 25, 2013
Present in nearly every unemployment compensation appeal decision is discussion aboutBoyton Cab Co. v. Neubeck, 237 Wis. 249, 259-60, 296 N.W. 636 (1941) as it applies to "misconduct." This confuses no...
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Employee Rights to Personnel File
Jan 13, 2013
A common area employees are incredibly unaware of involves their rights to their personnel file that their employer maintains. A lot of smaller employers don't have the best record-keeping and often do...
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Can My Employer Force Me to Get a Flu Shot?
Jan 10, 2013
Apopular question and issue that arises every year around this time is whether an employer can force it's employee to receive flu shots/vaccinations. The answer is that employers may generally require ...
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