By Ross Runkel, Professor of Law Emeritus, arbitrator, and editor at LawMemo - World's Best.
Copyright (c) 2006, Ross Runkel
Whether respondents? practice of conferring broad discretionary authority upon individual managers to decide which employees to lay off during a reduction in force constituted a?reasonable factor other than age? as a matter of law.
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Sexual orientation discrimination and gender identity discrimination will be unlawful in Oregon come January 1, 2008. Also signed into law was House Bill 2007, the Oregon Family Fairness Act, which allows "domestic partnership contracts" in Oregon.
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Sometimes it's a fine line between an "employee" and an "independent contractor." Vermont's Employment Security Board determined that the individuals who make clothing at home for the Fleece on Earth company were employees for purposes of assessing unemployment taxes on the employer.
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What to do when a pharmacist, for religious reasons, refuses to handle birth control prescriptions? The 7th Circuit decided it would indeed be an undue hardship on Wal-Mart, because it would require shifting all of Noesen's phone-answering duties and customer counter duties to other employees.
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