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GFOA-MO Winter Conference
Presented by:Bryan D. LeMoine, Esq.Polsinelli Shughart PC
7733 Forsyth Blvd., 12th FloorClayton, Missouri 63105
(314) 889-8000
Employment Law Update – Round 2
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Employment Law Update – Round 2
Remember our task – avoid the lawyer droning on endlessly about new laws and potential legislation that may never occur
To facilitate our making this task happen, I am bringing out my version of trying to make employment law fun
And if you don’t like jeopardy, perhaps you can be bought because I have prizes
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Agency Enforcement Litigation Problems Trouble Cometh To Leave or Not to Leave
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This agency recently picked up enforcement of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and also enforces laws protecting employees from discrimination on the basis of their race, gender and disability.
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What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
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This agency enforces claims that an employer failed to pay employees for all hours worked or for overtime.
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What is the Department of Labor?
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The information you provide to the EEOC during an administrative investigation is an open record under this law.
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What is the Freedom of Information Act?
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The EEOC has stepped up enforcement of these laws which relate to pre-employment testing by employers.
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What are Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act?
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This process is required before the EEOC can proceed to file suit against an employer based on alleged violation of one of the laws the EEOC enforces.
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What is the conciliation process?
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Litigation Problems for 10
Section 1981 provides for this type of claim according to the United States Supreme Court in CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries.
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What is retaliation?
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The Missouri Supreme Court recently clarified in Hill v. Ford Motor Co. that a supervisor has this kind of liability for actions that violate the Missouri Human Rights Act.
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What is personal?
This case is also important for another reason – it further differentiates Missouri law from Title VII related to the burden of proof.
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An employee may be able to bring this type of claim if he or she has to work in an environment filled with raunchy talk even if the talk is not specifically directed at that employee.
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What is a hostile work environment claim?
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A Federal Appeals Court allowed a claim against Anheuser-Busch to go forward, overturning the lower court’s order dismissing the claim, because AB did this after one co-worker retaliated against another co-worker.
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What is nothing?
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Many employers have failed to adopt this type of policy which is a necessity in dealing with discovery requests and complying with new rules related to preservation of information.
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What is a record retention policy?
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Trouble Cometh for 10
Under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an employer may not discriminate against someone who has had one of these.
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What is an abortion?
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This bill, recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, is designed to strengthen the Equal Pay Act by improving remedies, facilitating class actions, prohibiting employer retaliation, limiting employer’s affirmative defenses, and modifies the “establishment” requirement.
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What is the Paycheck Fairness Act?
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This law would change the requirement related to when an employer must accommodate an employee’s religious belief.
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What is the Workplace Religious Freedom Act?
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In Missouri, employers who hire these face significant consequences, including the possible revocation of their right to do business.
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What is employ an illegal worker?
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Participation in this activity affords an employee protection under Title VII according to the United States Supreme Court in Crawford v. Nashville during an employer’s internal investigation.
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What is cooperating during an investigation?
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To Leave or Not to Leave for 10
A person caring for a member of the armed forces wounded in combat is entitled to this kind of leave.
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What is military caregiver leave?
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A person whose physician provides documentation suggesting that a person has a serious health condition requiring them to be absent from work irregularly may be entitled to this kind of leave.
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What is intermittent leave?
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To Leave or Not to Leave for 30
Employees must do this when they know in advance that they are going to need FMLA leave?
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What is give the employer thirty days notice?
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This law provides that an employer may be required to give an employee leave even if the FMLA may not apply or may not cover the employer?
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What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
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One of your employees with performance problems comes to you and states he is having difficulty concentrating and has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. As an employer, you must do this.
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What is engage in the interactive process?