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		<title>Fourth Circuit Grapples with Retaliation Under FLSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court issued a decision last year stating for the first time that a complaint about wages and hours need not be in writing to invoke the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  Before that, many courts had determined that only complaints made to the Department of Labor triggered anti-retaliation protection.  The Supreme [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/02/03/fourth-circuit-grapples-with-retaliation-under-flsa/</link>
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		<title>EEOC Strategic Plan Pursues More High Impact Enforcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the new administration came into power in early 2009, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has enjoyed more resources and more leeway to pursue cases of discrimination.  It has taken on a number of employers accused of multiple instances of discrimination, and has entered into highly publicized settlements with many of them.  The areas of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/31/eeoc-strategic-plan-pursues-more-high-impact-enforcement/</link>
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		<title>Workplace Ethics Change as the Economy Rises and Falls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ethics Resource Center issued its biannual report on the prevalence of misconduct in American companies.  Two counter-intuitive findings stood out for me: One found that in bad economic times company ethics improved, while the reporting of misconduct rose.  The study found that pressure to engage in unethical behavior is more rampant.  Likewise, retaliation against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/24/workplace-ethics-change-as-the-economy-rises-and-falls/</link>
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		<title>NLRB’s Poster Requirement on Rights to Organize is Postponed Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Labor Relations Board decided to postpone the effective date of its earlier requirement that employers post a comprehensive summary of employees’ rights to organize. The posting requirement has created a firestorm among employers.  It is designed to overcome the anti-union environment.  Some employees believe that they have no right to talk among themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/17/nlrb%e2%80%99s-poster-requirement-on-rights-to-organize-is-postponed-again/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court Closes The Courthouse Doors to Religious Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Supreme Court decided a closely watched Case, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Cheryl Perich was a teacher at a Christian school.  She sued the school after her termination, claiming the discharge violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.  The school countered that the Courts had no right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/14/supreme-court-closes-the-courthouse-doors-to-religious-employees/</link>
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		<title>The Toll of Long-term Unemployment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent survey, almost a third of people unemployed in the third quarter of 2011 had been without a job for more than a year.  This figure is double that of two years earlier.  As with many other unemployment patterns, the groups hardest hit are the oldest, and the least educated workers. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/03/the-toll-of-long-term-unemployment/</link>
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		<title>Two Months of Extended Unemployment Insurance Passes Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The old year ended with Congress deciding to join together, begrudgingly perhaps, in extending unemployment benefits for two more months.  The Republican standoff, which attempted to tie any relief in the unemployment benefits arena to agenda items such as an agreement not to increase taxes on the wealthiest.  Almost three million unemployed workers would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2012/01/02/two-months-of-extended-unemployment-insurance-passes-congress/</link>
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		<title>Harsher Treatment of Female-Specific Disabilities Supports Sex Discrimination Claim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The highest court in Maryland just reinstated a jury verdict in favor of an employee fired by Giant of Maryland after complaining of sex discrimination.  A truck driver for the grocery chain, Ms. Taylor developed a condition in which she experienced unexpected heavy menstrual bleeding, which would make her absent or late to work without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2011/12/31/harsher-treatment-of-female-specific-disabilities-supports-sex-discrimination-claim/</link>
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		<title>Fourth Circuit Excludes Stock Options from Wages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided against an employee seeking to recover unvested stock options after her termination.  The employee had sued under the Maryland Wage Payment and Collection Act.  She contended that a portion of her deferred compensation should not have been withheld by her employer.  Under an optional plan, the employee had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2011/12/28/fourth-circuit-excludes-stock-options-from-wages/</link>
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		<title>Veterans Given a Little More Job Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month Congress unanimously passed and the President signed the Veterans Opportunity to Work (or ”VOW “) to Hire Heroes Act of 2011.  It’s a very catchy name, and provides both a carrot and a stick for employers.  First, employers get a tax credit for hiring an unemployed veteran.  The longer the period of unemployment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://marylandemploymentdevelopments.com/2011/12/16/veterans-given-a-little-more-job-protection/</link>
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