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•  THE EMPLOYMENT READER  •

 
Every quarter Kirk & Simas publishes The Employment Reader, a newsletter focusing on case law updates and new laws that affect employers. As its name suggests, this newsletter highlights important facets, or recent changes in federal and state law that are especially important to or useful for business owners and managers in managing their business and employees. This broad scope includes everything from discrimination and harassment to employment policies and handbooks and everything in between.

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EDITOR

NEWSLETTER

ARTICLES

Michael M. Sloan

November, 2010
1.  Is EPLI Insurance a Good Risk?
2.  Employees Cannot Sue for Tip Pooling Violations.
3.  Court Sides with Employers in Searching Employer Owned Devices.
4.  The Interactive Process of Disability Discrimination Every Employer Should
     Know.
February, 2011
1.  Social Networking v. The First Amendment.
2.  Employers Only Need to Provide Meal Periods, Not Ensure They Are Taken.
3.  Time is of the Essence in Paying Final Wages.
June, 2011
1.  As Brinker Decision Looms, Another Court Holds That Meal Breaks Be
     Provided, Not Ensured.
2.  Employees Not Authorized to Work in US, Pose Double-Edged Sword for
     Employers in EDD Claims.
3.  The Pro's and Con's To Using Social Media to Vet Employment Candidates.
4.  New Holding, Same Story on Retalitory Harassment.
November, 2011
1.  California Law Requires Written Contract for Commission Pay Arrangements.
2.  After Acquired Evidence of Illegal Immigration Status Bars Discrimination
     Suit.
3.  Soon, Employers (Large & Small) Will Need to Provide Benefits for Four
     Months of Pregancy Disability Leave.
4.  Court Set to Rule in Brinker Restaraunt Corp. versus Superior Court.
Employment Reader, Vol. 2, No. 1,
February, 2012
1.  New Notice of Wage Payments Required of Employers.
2.  Does the ADA Make it Illegal for Employers to Require High School Diploma?
3.  EEOC to Employers: Be Careful of Too Much Information?
4.  Supreme Court Hears Argument in Brinker

 
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