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		<title>Making sense of &#8216;special circumstance&#8217; pay pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know when non-exempt staff have to be paid for off-the-clock time or travel. But what about these other wage and hour pitfalls? Here are six compensable time issues that every HR pro should know how to handle, courtesy of Grace Lee and Robert Friedman of Venable LLP. Seminars and training Non-exempt workers who attend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/making-sense-of-special-circumstance-pay-pitfalls/</link>
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		<title>Court confirms it: Honest mistake doesn&#8217;t mean doom in FMLA suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you fire a staffer for allegedly abusing leave and then turn out to be wrong, you can still win in court &#8212; if you meet this one requirement. Tom Seeger, a network technician who worked for the same firm for nearly 30 years, suffered from a herniated lumbar disc and was approved for FMLA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/court-confirms-it-honest-mistake-doesnt-mean-doom-in-fmla-suit/</link>
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		<title>Great &#8212; yet another way FMLA can trip you up legally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employees are eligible for FMLA if they have a serious health condition which results in a &#8220;period of incapacity of more than three, consecutive full calendar days.&#8221; So why did a court recently rule that an employee was protected under FMLA even though she only missed two days of work? Two competing medical issues Angela [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/great-yet-another-way-fmla-can-trip-you-up-legally/</link>
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		<title>More evidence: Misclassifying employees could cost you big</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you still need more ammo in the fight to straighten up your employee classification procedures, here it is. Wage-and-hour complaints are on the increase &#8212; causing companies more trouble and costing them more money than in recent years. Employers settled nearly 110 wage-and-hour cases in 2011, more than double the 40 settlements in 2007 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/more-evidence-misclassifying-employees-could-cost-you-big/</link>
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		<title>Bill would bar asking for applicants&#8217; social media passwords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When some businesses began asking job applicants for their social media passwords, critics were immediately up in arms over privacy issues. So you knew it was only a matter of time before something like this wound up on the table. The Password Protection Act of 2012 (PPA) has been introduced in both the House and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/bill-would-bar-asking-for-applicants-social-media-passwords/</link>
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		<title>Manager snatched Muslim woman&#8217;s scarf off &#8211; firm now owes her $5 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some religious bias cases are subtle. Here’s one that’s not. A jury in Missouri has awarded a Muslim woman $5 million after she filed suit against her company, claiming religious bias. Susann Bashir worked as a fiber optics network builder for AT&#38;T for 10 years, and was commended for her good work in the company’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/manager-snatched-muslim-womans-scarf-off-firm-now-owes-her-5-million/</link>
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		<title>Answers to tricky HR questions: Do we have to terminate staffer who&#8217;s ineligible for FMLA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our team of experts fields real-life, everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s issue: Ineligible staffers and the Family and Medical Leave Act.  Question: An employee who hasn’t been with us for a year broke his leg. Since he isn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/answers-to-tricky-hr-questions-do-we-have-to-terminate-staffer-whos-ineligible-for-fmla/</link>
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		<title>What were they thinking? Fired for a 40-year-old shoplifting arrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re starting to see why the EEOC released guidelines on the use of criminal background checks: A 58-year-old customer service worker was recently fired when a background check revealed she&#8217;d shoplifted 40 years ago. Yolanda Quesada got the axe after she received an FBI notice of her background check, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel. Her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/what-were-they-thinking-fired-for-a-40-year-old-shoplifting-arrest/</link>
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		<title>Staffer not cooperating with certification requests? Here&#8217;s what to do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Employees don&#8217;t always make it easy for firms to approve their FMLA leave. When that happens, do what this company did. Terry Poling was approved for intermittent FMLA leave for Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome, a neurological condition that can cause severe burning pain, excessive sweating and tissue swelling. In the months following, Poling never needed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/staffer-not-cooperating-with-fmla-certification-requests-heres-what-to-do/</link>
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		<title>Bullies increasingly targeting older workers: What to look for</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your company has some employees who have decided to put off retirement for a few more years, you&#8217;ll want to keep an eye out for this troubling workplace trend. Whether it&#8217;s managers that are trying to push older staffers out, or younger co-workers who feel more mature employees are keeping them from moving up, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hrmorning.com/bullies-increasingly-targeting-older-workers-what-to-look-for/</link>
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