Alaska Employment Law

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 AS 26.05.260(b) to authorize

the adjutant general and the commissioner of natural resources [to] agree that specified classifications of Alaska National Guard personnel called to active state service to fight wildfires shall be paid at rates established for emergency fire fighting personnel in accordance with AS 41.15.030

The bill has moved from Military and Veterans Affairs to House Finance.  Gov. Palin introduced the bill.

Alaska political news:  Philip Munger’s Progressive Alaska is a lively, well-written, and well-linked source of Alaska political news from a left-of-center point of view.  The Alaska Free Press is an on-line newspaper that often scoops the Daily News.  If there are other non-traditional sources of Alaska political news, let me know, and I’ll post links.

Al-Qa’ida and personnel files:  No comment:

From the mid-1990s through late-2001, al-Qa’ida made every effort to become a fully bureaucratized organization, complete with employment contracts specifying vacation policies, explicitly documented roles and responsibilities for different jobs including detailed descriptions of the experiences required for senior leadership roles, security memos written by a specialized security committee, [] and standardized questionna[i]res for those arriving at training camps. Al-Qa’ida did not decide to decentralize until 2002, following the ouster of the Taliban from Afghanistan and the arrest of a number of key al-Qa’ida leaders … In response these and other key losses, al-Qa’ida allegedly convened a strategic summit in northern Iran in November 2002, at which the group’s consultative council decided that it could no longer operate as a hierarchy, but instead would have to decentralize.

HatTip: MonkeyCage