HR Comply's Newsletter Abstracts: November 13, 2002
Recent Cases/New Developments in Employment Law

Customer Query Of The Week

  • Our company had doubled in size in the last year. Management can't talk one-on-one with employees as often as they used to. Would a "suggestion box" be a good way to at least partly make up for the reduced personal communication?
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    Discrimination

  • Gender Discrimination Claim Fails Where Harassing Conduct Wasn't "Because Of" Sex (11/5/02)
    WA Ct App.
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    ADA

  • Narrow Approach To ADA Taken By US Supreme Court In Toyota Inapplicable To State's Disability Discrimination Statutes (11/6/02 OR Ct App)
    LawMemo.com

  • HIV Positive Employee Who Didn't Want Any More Children Wasn't Substantially Limited In The Major Life Activity Of Reproduction (11/4/02)
    5th Cir.
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    ADEA

  • Plaintiff Failed To Show Either That Employer's Conduct Amounted To An Adverse Employment Action Or Would Not Have Been Taken "But For" Her Age (11/4/02)
    WV Ct App.

  • ADEA Claim Fails Where Discriminatory Comments Were Made By Individuals Who Had No Part In A Decision To Terminate Or Were Not Employed By Defendant And Plaintiff Produced No Evidence Of Pretext (10/28/02)
    5th Cir.
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    Workplace Safety

  • US Supreme Court Hears Argument On FELA Emotional Distress Claims (11/6/02)
    LawMemo.com
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    Employment Taxes

  • IRC § 6404(e) Allowing For Abatement Of Interest Assessed On "Any Deficiency" Does Not Apply To Employment Taxes (11/8/02)
    9th Cir.
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    Global HR

  • Merging, Acquiring, or Opening a Facility in a Foreign Country (11/12/02)
    Darryl A. Weiss
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