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		<title>Harassment Prevention Training Should Be Considered By All Employers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced that Trinity Products, Inc (“Trinity”), a billboards and signposts manufacturer, agreed to pay $55,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation suit filed by the EEOC. The EEOC alleged that a “high level manager harassed his assistant with offensive language and gestures and requests for sexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/08/harassment-prevention-training-should-be-considered-by-all-employers/</link>
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		<title>California Court Decision Restricts Union Activity on Private Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent decision by the California Court of Appeal has basically banned unions from picketing on business property within California. In its opinion the court invalidated two California laws designed to protect union demonstrations on business property.  The reviewing court ordered the trial court to grant an injunction restraining the United Food and Commercial Workers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/08/california-court-decision-restricts-union-activity-on-private-property/</link>
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		<title>Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Update</title>
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The key objectives of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)  are to make union organizing easier, restrict the ability to campaign  against unions, and punish employers for expressing their opinions that  unionization is not in their companies’ best interests. EFCA has been  sitting dormant in Congress, but it has not been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/08/employee-free-choice-act-efca-update/</link>
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		<title>Government says GDP slows, recession was deeper than previously thought.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal writes that the U.S. economy slowed in the second quarter of this year and the government said the recession was deeper than earlier believed, adding to concerns over the recovery&#8217;s strength.  The Commerce Department Friday said U.S. gross domestic product, or the value of all goods and services produced, rose at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/07/government-says-gdp-slows-recession-was-deeper-than-previously-thought/</link>
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		<title>Working off the clock can result in large liabilities for Employer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Otsuka v. Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., a federal district court  in Northern California recently approved a $4 million class action settlement for  unpaid wages. Plaintiffs alleged that, as part of the retailer&#8217;s loss  prevention program, they were required to submit to inspections of their  personal bags and belongings before exiting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/07/working-off-the-clock-can-result-in-large-liabilities-for-employer/</link>
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		<title>DOL issues new clarification of the definition of “son or daughter” under Section 101(12) of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Labor (&#8220;DOL&#8221;) has published an Administrator&#8217;s  Interpretation to address the question of whether an employee is entitled to leave  under the Family Medical Leave Act (&#8220;FMLA&#8221;) to care for a child they are not biologically related to.  The FMLA provides that an eligible employee can take up to  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/07/dol-issues-new-clarification-of-the-definition-of-%e2%80%9cson-or-daughter%e2%80%9d-under-section-10112-of-the-family-and-medical-leave-act-fmla/</link>
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		<title>Small Business Owners May be Eligible for Health Care Tax Credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this post by Sarah Needleman of the Wall Street Journal, she points out a new tax credit that may be available to small business owners who pay for health insurance for their employees:
Uncle Sam wants small-business  owners to take notice of a new health-care tax credit &#8212; one of the  first provisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/05/small-business-owners-may-be-eligible-for-health-care-tax-credit/</link>
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		<title>Industries Poised for Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Smart Money article by Diana Ransom posted at the Wall Street Journal web page discusses several future growth industries.
Much has been said about the Obama administration pushing through new  regulations on everything from health-care companies to banks — not to  mention the impact these changes will have on the overall economy. But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/05/industries-poised-for-growth/</link>
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		<title>COBRA Update, Again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As discussed in my earlier posts  here, congress has repeatedly extended the benefits to employees under COBRA. And now, for the third ime, the COBRA premium subsidy program has been extended, this time through May 31, 2010, under the Continuing Extension Act of 2010 (Act). The key provisions of the Act include:

The extension of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/04/cobra-update-again/</link>
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		<title>Dell Spurs Sales by Lending to Hard-Hit Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justin Scheck of the Wall St. Journal writes that &#8220;for years, Dell Inc. has relied on  sales to small businesses for a big chunk of its revenue. It sells more  personal computers to small companies than any tech supplier. Now, it is  offering more credit to spur small business purchases.&#8221;
He goes on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reddingbusinessandemploymentlawblog.com/2010/03/dell-spurs-sales-by-lending-to-hard-hit-small-businesses/</link>
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