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- CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS - All California Employers Must Comply with New Laws Effective by 2010 (Vol. 10 No. 1)
Past Issues
- AVOIDING RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE: - How to Accommodate Employees’ Religious Beliefs Without Imposing Undue Hardship on the Company's Business (Vol. 9 No. 4)
- PRE-EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS - Employers Must Obtain Applicant's Written Consent and Provide Several Precise Notices. (Vol. 9 No. 3)
- CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS - All California Employers Must Comply with New Laws Taking Effect in 2009. (Vol. 9 No. 2)
- RUDE, CRUDE AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE - Lawfully Dethroning the Workplace Despot. (Vol. 9 No. 1)
- ARBITRATION OF EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES - New, Stricter Standards for Handling Workplace Claims Outside of Court. (Vol. 8 No. 4)
- MEAL AND REST PERIODS IN THE WORKPLACE - Courts Unclear on What Employers Must Do to "Provide" Breaks. (Vol. 8 No. 3)
- CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS - A Look at the Year Ahead. (Vol. 8 No. 2)
- MURPHY'S LAW REVISED - Employers Eat It For Missed Meal and Rest Periods. (Vol. 8 No. 1)
- CYBERSEX ‘ADDICTION’ - Brave New World Workplace Disability for the 21st Century. (Vol. 7 No. 4)
- CALIFORNIA’S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS FOR 2007 - Employers Must Comply with New and Revised Workplace Rules. This article summarizes California employmentrelated laws to go into effect on January 1, 2007. (Vol. 7 No. 3)
- MONITORING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE - While employees hold strong rights to maintain their private lives without intrusion, employers can legitimately place limits on the use of workplace internet access or email facilities for activities unrelated to company business. (Vol. 7 No. 2)
- SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN HOLLYWOOD - An Environment Hostile or Offensive to One Worker May Not Be an Unlawful Workplace Environment (Vol. 7 No. 1)
- SEXUAL FAVORITISM IN THE WORKPLACE - New Court Decision Requires Businesses to Monitor Consensual Romantic Relations Between Supervisors and Subordinates (Vol. 6 No. 4)
- IS PSYCHIATRY JUNK SCIENCE? - Rulings by United States Supreme Court Create Basis for Challenge to Psychiatry’s Validity (Vol. 6 No. 3)
- LOVE CONTRACTS IN THE WORKPLACE - Businesses Can Choose to Ban or Monitor Consensual Romantic Relations Between Supervisors and Subordinates (Vol. 6 No. 2)
- CALIFORNIA’S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS FOR 2005 - Employers Must Comply with Revised and Expanded Workplace Rules (Vol. 6 No. 1)
Other Articles (available on request)
- Mandatory Sexual Harassment Training in California
- Religion in the Workplace
- The Importance of Written Employee Policies
- Workplace Romances
- California's New Employment Laws for 2004
- Loan Agreements with Employees Can be Trouble
- National Origin Discrimination in the Workplace is Illegal
- California's New Employment Laws for 2003
- California's Minimum Wage Increase Impacts Salaried Workers (electronic format only)
- Pre-Employment Background Checks - Employers Must Obtain Applicant's Written Consent and Provide Several Precise Notices
- Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Exposes Offending Mental Health Providers to Both Criminal and Civil Liability
- Psychological Test Eliminates Applicants as "Too Smart" to be Police Officers
- Pre-Employment Testing; Employers Must Direct Inquiries to Matters Related to Job Skills and Qualities
- Preserving the Integrity of Employment Severance Agreements
- Rampant Medicare Fraud in Community Mental Health Centers; Private Whistleblower Suits Can Counter Government Inaction
- "Mental Disability" Laws Do Not Protect Incompetent Workers
- Applicants' Privacy Rights Limit Employer Background Checks
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