http://www.elinfonet.com/fedindex/12 Human resource articles discussing topics covering employee relations and other workplace issues. Thu, 24 May 2012 18:05:04 EST en-us http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/baUwDJPSD2w/newscount.php Article: 12426 Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) On May 22, the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that it will hold a public hearing on June 19, 2012, and invited interested persons to share their views on its proposed rule changes relating to the amendments to the Railway Labor Act (RLA) in the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act of 2012. On May 15, the NMB issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the Board's election rules to comply with these amendments, which went into effect on February 14, 2012. The proposed rule addresses the NMB's rulemaking authority, the procedure for run-off elections, and the showing of interest required for an unrepresented craft or class. One twist, however, is that the NMB appears to be proposing a change in its procedures in the event that there is a tie between those voting for and those voting against representation. Under current practice, in such a situation the union's application would be dismissed. The NMB has proposed to hold a run-off (or more appropriately a re-run) election in the event of a tie. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sgfsSfPit6tKwSheLS9P11IjjAk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sgfsSfPit6tKwSheLS9P11IjjAk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sgfsSfPit6tKwSheLS9P11IjjAk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sgfsSfPit6tKwSheLS9P11IjjAk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/baUwDJPSD2w" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12426 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/qwbbmZ0p9BY/newscount.php Article: 12424 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) A tenured professor at Purdue University has sued the university, alleging that it wrongfully disciplined him after he posted anti-Muslim comments on his Facebook page. According to The Fire.org, Prof. Maurice Eisenstein, an Orthodox Jew, posted a picture on his Facebook page of “Christians killed by a radical Muslim group,” along with written comments questioning the response of moderate Muslims and insulting the Prophet Muhammad. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h9enEm8DyRPauHysv8YDqBhN38I/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h9enEm8DyRPauHysv8YDqBhN38I/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h9enEm8DyRPauHysv8YDqBhN38I/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/h9enEm8DyRPauHysv8YDqBhN38I/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/qwbbmZ0p9BY" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12424 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/gOOLdDhxmm0/newscount.php Article: 12423 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) Jonathan T. Hyman of the Ohio Employer's Law Blog and I will be guests on this week's edition of The Proactive Employer podcast with Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D. Jon and I are not only friends from the employment-law blogosphere but we also collaborated on the book, Think Before You Click, Strategies for Manging Social Media in the Workplace, together. Jon served as editor and co-author and I wrote the chapter on the interplay between privacy and social media. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TXlLo4ee4Ang9ykcwwukzQNSucc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TXlLo4ee4Ang9ykcwwukzQNSucc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TXlLo4ee4Ang9ykcwwukzQNSucc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/TXlLo4ee4Ang9ykcwwukzQNSucc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/gOOLdDhxmm0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12423 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/hQBTVTNytoc/newscount.php Article: 12422 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) Schools continue to struggle with social media. In particular, teachers’ online interactions with students via Facebook and other social-networking sites continues to be problematic. Some school districts have been successful in adopting social-media policies. New York City, for example, recently implemented social-media guidelines for teachers and staff. But school districts without social-media policies for staff are facing challenging times. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dAF6no3UUKSCgNIjzCLX7fk3ysM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dAF6no3UUKSCgNIjzCLX7fk3ysM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dAF6no3UUKSCgNIjzCLX7fk3ysM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/dAF6no3UUKSCgNIjzCLX7fk3ysM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/hQBTVTNytoc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12422 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/r1fse9VBbL0/newscount.php Article: 12420 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (the "EEOC") issued Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the "Guidance"). The Guidance is the EEOC's first formal policy statement on this topic in 20 years, and the first since the 1991 Civil Rights Act codified Title VII's employment discrimination disparate impact analysis. The development is particularly timely, as the proliferation of online databases now makes it easier than ever for employers to learn an individual's criminal record history. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4UNftmmR-XJYd55Y4KdjBcLQ6kg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4UNftmmR-XJYd55Y4KdjBcLQ6kg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4UNftmmR-XJYd55Y4KdjBcLQ6kg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/4UNftmmR-XJYd55Y4KdjBcLQ6kg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/r1fse9VBbL0" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12420 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/lVrx_GX7Qew/newscount.php Article: 12419 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) Although said in jest, the comment does have some truth (except for the smoky rooms), as the American Law Institute is meeting in D.C. this week and will be taking up Chapters 3 and 7 of the Restatement of Employment Law. This according to Paul Secunda, one of the editors at the Workplace Prof Blog, who will be in attendance. American Law Institute - Restatement of Employment Law. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1cUdT2CWhtP-qIMRTWIjEKhRWTg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1cUdT2CWhtP-qIMRTWIjEKhRWTg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1cUdT2CWhtP-qIMRTWIjEKhRWTg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1cUdT2CWhtP-qIMRTWIjEKhRWTg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/lVrx_GX7Qew" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12419 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/YSQTu3J3uhc/newscount.php Article: 12410 Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) The interaction between arbitration and class/collective actions which seems to be continually evolving, took another positive step for employers in the 5th Circuit with today's decision in Reed v. Florida Metro University, Inc. (5th Cir 5.18.12). <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bscAkZ43auDSDOUQ1iFU6kjtKrA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bscAkZ43auDSDOUQ1iFU6kjtKrA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bscAkZ43auDSDOUQ1iFU6kjtKrA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/bscAkZ43auDSDOUQ1iFU6kjtKrA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/YSQTu3J3uhc" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12410 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/OTV4ds1bpHA/newscount.php Article: 12409 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) Examples of employers terminating employees for violating social media policies abound – as you can tell from our prior posts and the NLRB’s continuing interest in the topic. This week, however, Mr. Gene Morphis, chief financial officer for Francesca’s Holdings Corp., a Houston based fashion retailer, was “terminated for cause” as a result of posts on Facebook and Twitter. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t6ZjPrqcs6QvHo8jYr4tPxUmtUQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t6ZjPrqcs6QvHo8jYr4tPxUmtUQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t6ZjPrqcs6QvHo8jYr4tPxUmtUQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/t6ZjPrqcs6QvHo8jYr4tPxUmtUQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/OTV4ds1bpHA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12409 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/fZ8GVWJ1Cgg/newscount.php Article: 12408 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) While many people are aware that President Obama signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Act on February 22, 2012 extending the payroll tax cut, few knew about a provision in that law which helps employer avoid layoffs. This provision is called the Layoff Prevention Act of 2012. This new law amends the Internal Revenue Code by creating the Short-Term Compensation Program. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-7PzrH_K4k0OHhz33FRbQilqgaY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-7PzrH_K4k0OHhz33FRbQilqgaY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-7PzrH_K4k0OHhz33FRbQilqgaY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-7PzrH_K4k0OHhz33FRbQilqgaY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/fZ8GVWJ1Cgg" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12408 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~3/LcGyPrM8KyA/newscount.php Article: 12404 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 EST webmaster@elinfonet.com (Employment Law Information Network) A federal district court has denied immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) to a hospital, individual members of its Board of Trustees, Peer Review Committee (PRC), Medical Executive Committee (MEC), Fair Hearing Committee FEC, and the hospital’s Chief Medical Officer, in a lawsuit brought by a physician challenging a number of adverse decisions, including a final decision to indefinitely suspend the physician’s privileges. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1rBEswbnioPwz-7a225sdVdnYGg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1rBEswbnioPwz-7a225sdVdnYGg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1rBEswbnioPwz-7a225sdVdnYGg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1rBEswbnioPwz-7a225sdVdnYGg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HumanResourcesArticles-HrArticles/~4/LcGyPrM8KyA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.elinfonet.com/newscount.php?popID=12404