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20646
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit announced a new standard for political firings cases with its decision of August 7, 1997, in Jenkens, et al. v. Medford. This bulletin summarizes the decision and its implications for North Carolina public officials.
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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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20710
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Public employers are subject to the same laws and regulations designed to limit the employment of unauthorized immigrant workers. This bulletin provides an introduction to issues such as understanding the I-9 work authorization form, how to respond to the \"no-match\" letter, and deciding whether or not to participate in the E-Verify program.
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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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21552
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This bulletin explains changes in employee wellness programs effective January 1, 2014. HIPAA nondiscrimination rules have changed, but ADA, GINA, and N.C. laws remain the same.
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21843
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\"On June 26, 2013, the US Supreme Court held in United States v. Windsor that Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. as a result, for all federal laws the terms \"spouse\" and \"marriage\" now include, in addition to opposite-sex spouses and marriage between persons of opposite sexes, same-sex spouses and marriages between persons of the same sex. The Supreme Court's decision has no effect, however, on state laws.\" Juffras discusses six things local government employers need to know about the Windsor decision.
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