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20698
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Smallpox vaccination cannot be a job requirement for any employee--it is purely voluntary. The NC Workers' Compensation Act does not explicitly include and does not explicitly exclude complications resulting from smallpox vaccination received in the course of employment. This Bulletin provides guidance to managers who must answer employees' question about the vaccination.
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20699
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New Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations governing overtime pay exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, and computer employees will go into effect soon. This bulletin examines how the new regulations would affect state and local government employers in North Carolina.
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20700
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Personnel costs represent a substantial and increasing share of the budget for the employer. As state and local governments and their agencies prepare budgets for the coming year, they must take a fresh look at employee and retiree benefits. This bulletin uses an imaginary city to discuss the legal issues that North Carolina public employers should consider before reducing employee benefits.
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20701
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The new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations governing overtime pay exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, and computer employees becomes effective August 23, 2004. This bulletin examines how the new regulations are likely to affect state and local government employers in North Carolina.
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20702
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This bulletin examines the advantages and risks of government employers using independent contractors to perform work traditionally done by regular employees. The advantages to the employer are that the independent contractor receives no overtime pay, no benefits, no withholding, no FICA contributions, and no workers' compensation.
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20703
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This bulletin discusses each of the features necessary to make an early retirement incentive program comply with the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
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20704
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This bulletin discusses the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's final rule permitting employers to coordinate their retiree health benefit plans with eligibility for Medicare. Published on December 26, 2007, the rule answers, at least for now, a difficult question: Is it unlawful age discrimination to reduce a retiree's health benefits when the retiree becomes eligible for Medicare? The answer is no. As issued in its final form, the rule permits employers to offer retiree health benefits that may change, be reduced, or even be eliminated when a participant becomes eligible for Medicare. The rule is set out in the bulletin.
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20711
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Many private companies in North Carolina--Lowe's Companies, Progress Energy, BB&T, and others--offer domestic partner benefits. The public sector employers are slower in granting this. In 2009, only 19 states offered them to state employees--North Carolina was not one of them. This bulletin explains the law governing the ability of North Carolina local government employers to offer domestic partner benefits.
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20712
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This bulletin discusses the legal issues that North Carolina public employers should consider before they use the Internet to conduct or supplement background checks of prospective employees.
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20713
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On May 8, 2012, North Carolina voters approved an amendment to the North Carolina Constitution making marriage between a man and a woman the only \"domestic\" union that can receive legal recognition in the state. Some units of government in North Carolina have, before the adoption of Amendment One, extended some kinds of employee benefits - notably health insurance - to unmarried domestic partners. The question arises with the adoption of Amendment One whether this extension of benefits by public employers is now unlawful. This bulletin looks at law the courts will have to apply to determine whether Amendment One extends to employee benefit plans.
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20723
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The 1994 short session of the NC General Assembly significantly changed the state's workers' compensation law with the enactment of Senate Bill 906. The Bill makes major changes designed to strike a balance between employees' desire to protect their rights to compensation for workplace injuries and employers' goals of reducing lost work days and constantly rising medical costs. This Bulletin summarizes these changes.
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20725
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Beginning April 6, 1995, employers must comply with a new set of \"final\" rules issued by the U.S. Department of Labor to implement the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). This bulletin provides an overview of some of the major revisions and clarifications.
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20734
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A number of significant bills dealing with personnel matters were introduced into the 1995 NC General Assembly, but legislators enacted only a few of them into law. These changes and other changes in the law governing the public personnel function at the state and local level are discussed in the bulletin.
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20737
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These three statutes have distinct purposes; however, despite this, all three laws can apply to the same case simultaneously. Workers' Compensation was created to provide prompt, sure, and reasonable income and benefits on a no-fault-basis to people injured on the job. The Americans with Disabilities Act was designed to prevent employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities. The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed to protect the employment of workers who must take time off to care for their own medical needs or the needs of family members. This bulletin includes a chart that provides a comparative analysis of some of the keys provisions of these three acts.
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20738
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This bulletin discusses actions of the 104th U.S. Congress affecting public personnel law and those of the 1996 session of the NC General Assembly. Unless otherwise noted each act of the General Assembly became effective upon ratification.
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