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Up North Archive

A monthly email offering legal updates from SFM's Duluth-based legal counsel.

Edition

Headlines

March-April 2010
  • When can an employee receive retraining as a benefit?
  • Employee may qualify for FMLA even if the 12 months of employment are non-consecutive
  • Use caution in making deductions from employees' paychecks
Nov-Dec 2009
  • FMLA leave and the flu
  • New ADA regulations pending
  • Recent settlement a good reminder to employers to examine "bright line" leave policies
Aug-Sept 2009
  • Workers' compensation benefits and motor vehicle accidents
  • Come learn about return to work strategies and more
  • Policies requiring disclosure of medication usage may violate the ADA
  • Are volunteers covered by workers' compensation insurance?
June-July 2009
  • New Medicare reporting requirements for self-insured employers
  • When is a psychological condition a compensable injury?
  • Requirement of "no restrictions" before return to work is formula for discrimination
April-May 2009
  • When is an employee entitled to a QRC and vocational rehabilitation services?
  • Time to start thinking about Drug-Free Work Week
  • Employer policies affecting workers with caregiving responsibilities
Feb-March 2009
  • Personal comfort doctrine and the home office
  • Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry Basic Adjuster's Training Guide
  • Penalties for late filing of First Report of Injury form
Jan 2009
  • New FMLA regulations take effect today!
  • Idiopathic injuries
Nov-Dec 2008
  • Northern Minnesota seminar on the recent changes to the ADA and FMLA
  • New FMLA regulations effective Jan. 16, 2009
  • ADA Amendment Act of 2008 regulations delayed
  • What is a gillette injury?
Oct 2008
  • Reminder: New Minnesota benefit changes effective Oct. 1, 2008
  • Independent contractor exemption certificates
  • 'Direct threat' under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Sept 2008
  • The ADA Amendments Act of 2008
  • Maintaining employment benefits other than health insurance on work comp
  • Importance of communication with the employee after an injury
Aug 2008
  • Discussing disabilities with job applicants
  • Communicating with the Qualified Rehabilitation Consultant (QRC)
  • Notice of injury requirements under the Minnesota Workers' Compensation Act
July 2008
  • Using criminal background information in employment decisions
  • What is a "consequential injury" under Minnesota workers' compensation law?
  • Importance of timely and thorough investigation: Recent case illustration
June 2008
  • Preventing needless work disability: Invest in system and infrastructure improvements
  • FMLA leave may run concurrently with workers' compensation leave
  • Concept of substantial contributing cause and compensable injuries
May 2008
  • Preventing needless work disability, Part II
  • Minnesota workers' compensation bill signed to law
  • When is a First Report of Injury required?
April 2008
  • Preventing needless work disability, Part I
  • Paying wages after employee quits or resigns
  • New Minnesota patient handling requirements reminder
  • Time limits for filing claims for workers' compensation
March 2008
  • Preventing needless work disability: Behavioral complications
  • When is a civil battery claim barred by the exclusivity of the Work Comp Act?
  • Veterans with service-connected disabilities and the ADA
Feb 2008
  • Preventing needless work disability
  • U.S. DOL proposes new regulatiions for FMLA
  • Employee eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services
Jan 2008
  • Expansion of FMLA likely
  • 'Arising out of' and 'in the course of' employment
  • Is housekeeping a nursing service?

 

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