Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Insurance for Employment Claims

Employment Practices Liability Insurance:  The basics of EPLI are covered today at Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog.  Connecticut Employment Lawyer Blog adds commentary.  EPLI covers claims that General Liability carriers usually try to exclude.  See next item.
Employment-claim exclusion:  The 9th Circuit has affirmed a judgment holding that the General Liability insurer succeeded in excluding employment-related claims:

The straight-forward organization of […]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Miscellanea: New FMLA Regs, Alaska Politics, National Guard Equal Pay, and Al-Qa’ida

FMLA regulations on military families:  US DOL has published 470 pages of proposed regs and commentary on FMLA leave for employees with military members and other subjects.  The comment period expires April 11th.  See Connecticut Employment Law Blog for links to the regs and to blogger summaries of the regs.   
Alaska National Guard pay: HB 326 would amend […]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Effective Date for New AkDOL Regulations

The regulations that the Alaska Department of Labor proposed back in November of 2006 will become effective March 2, 2008. 
An analysis of the proposed regulations appeared here last September.  The final regs differ from the proposed regs only in minor grammatical or editorial aspects.