Friday, August 1st, 2008

Political Activity in the Workplace

Wal-Mart’s efforts to persuade its supervisors that McCain is preferable to Obama is the subject of a Wall Street Journal article that is critiqued by Jim Lindgren at Volokh Conspiracy.  This follows the NLRB’s July 22nd guidelines on the limits on employer discipline of employees for political activity.   Management-side law firm EpsteinBeckerGreen reviews the Board’s […]

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Friday, August 1st, 2008

Drug Testing for Pipeline Workers

Effective August 25th, U.S. DOT requires observation of urine deposits for the re-testing of safety-sensitive employees in the pipeline industry, according to this post in World of Work.  The amended regs are those at 49 CFR Part 40, especially §§ 40.61-.73.  The WoW post links to the new regs.
On a related note: Here’s a discussion of […]

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