Fair Measures eNews Archives

Here are articles on hot employment law issues that effect managers and supervisors in everyday work situations for your ongoing learning. To search by specific workplace issues, we have also organized these articles into a list of FAQs.

Heads up for Federal Contractors: Notify Workers About Their Union Rights

Posted 07-07-2010 If you work for a federal contractor with $100,000 or more in federal contracts, or a federal subcontractor with $10,000 or more, you [...]

Heads up for Federal Contractors: Notify Workers About Their Union RightsAnn Kiernan2015-06-12T17:55:58+00:00

Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Employer Right to Monitor E-mail

Posted 06-09-2010 In a Spring, 2010 opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that the attorney-client privilege applied to e-mails sent by an employee [...]

Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Employer Right to Monitor E-mailAnn Kiernan2015-06-12T17:34:48+00:00

What Managers Need to Know and do Under the New Health Care Reform Law

Posted 05-12-2010 With the passage of health care reform legislation in March, 2010, (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010) there has been a [...]

What Managers Need to Know and do Under the New Health Care Reform LawAnn Kiernan2015-06-12T17:32:00+00:00

Getting It Right! Managing Employee Performance

Posted 04-14-2010 For many managers, the annual performance review is, like death and taxes, dreaded and inevitable. But it doesn't have to be that way. [...]

Getting It Right! Managing Employee PerformanceAnn Kiernan2015-06-12T17:18:05+00:00

Read ’em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009

Posted 03-03-2010 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employees filed 93,277 workplace discrimination charges with the federal agency nationwide during Fiscal [...]

Read ’em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009Ann Kiernan2015-06-12T17:13:07+00:00

Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be Mean

Posted 02-10-2010 Tara Richerson worked for a school district as a coach and mentor to new teachers. She was an active blogger, as well. One day [...]

Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be MeanAnn Kiernan2015-06-12T07:29:49+00:00

What a Difference a Year Makes! The Obama Administration and Employment Law

Posted 01-12-2010 President Barack Obama has been in office for a year now, and there have been a lot of changes in employment law under [...]

What a Difference a Year Makes! The Obama Administration and Employment LawAnn Kiernan2015-06-04T05:21:40+00:00

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