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Newsletter - - 2008

WTPF Work/Life Forum Launched

 

Today, WTPF, the business forum for HR Professionals, has announced the formation of a Work/Life Forum at WTPF.  Through a strategic alliance with the Metropolitan Washington Work/Life Coalition WTPF will now include in its offering to its members access to strategies intended to support all workers at all stages of life and career, which will also help employers remain competitive in today’s marketplace.

 

 
 

Human Resource Leadership Awards of Greater Washington Announces 2008 Honorees

 
 


 

 

 

The Accrued Sick & Safe Leave Act of 2008

          In March of 2008, the D.C. Council passed the Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act of 2008 (the "Act"). The Act requires employers to provide paid leave that an employee may use upon his or her own illness and for similar other purposes. The passage of this Act followed San Francisco's adoption of a similar ordinance in 2006 to provide sick leave rights to persons employed in that city. This article describes the principal features of the Act, and highlights some of the open compliance issues under the Act.

CLAIMS OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION MAY BE BASED ON “ASSOCIATION”

 

         

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), as amended, prohibits employment discrimination on a number of grounds, such as, race, sex, national origin, and religion.  It is generally viewed that the protections extended under Title VII are based on the intrinsic traits of the individual who is asserting the employment discrimination claim or, in the case of retaliation claims, in response to the specific actions of the individual employee who is alleging discrimination.  Recently, however, several federal appellate and district courts have considered cases which tested the scope of Title VII’s protections and, in some cases, the federal courts ruled that a plaintiff could assert a viable claim under Title VII even when the basis for the claim is derived from the plaintiff’s association with another individual.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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