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Business Monthly Email

April 2012: American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA)

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Last month we discussed your obligations to employees under FMLA. We now turn our attention to ADAAA and the protection it extends to employees and obligations it imposes on you. One of the protections of the original 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was preventing the discrimination of individuals in the workplace because of a

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March 2012: Family Medical Leave Act of 1993

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How do you handle: learning that a serious illness is the underlying cause of your building maintenance person suddenly dropping tools and falling asleep? your finance manager’s 24-year-old married daughter, in the late stages of pregnancy, ordered on bed rest and requiring her mother’s assistance? requested time off by your male shift supervisor after the

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February 2012: Professional Liability

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  * Is any aspect of your operation – no matter how minor – deemed a “professional service”? * Will your general liability policy respond to claims arising from “professional services”?   * Can a client hold you responsible for a financial loss even if their property hasn’t suffered a     physical loss?   * Could

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