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Department of Labor releases 750 pages of revised rules
for implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act
The
Department of Labor has released final revised regulations
implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act. The revised
regulations are over 750 pages in length and adopt
most of the positions the DOL outlined in proposed
regulations issued in February 2008. The regulations become
effective on January 16, 2009. The regulations not only
address two new forms of military leave created earlier this
year, but also make minor tweaks, major adjustments and
wholesale changes to sections of the original FMLA
regulations.
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2009 Standard Mileage Rates
On
November 24, 2008 the Internal Revenue Service issued
the 2009 optional standard mileage rates used to
calculate the deductible costs of operating an
automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving
purposes.
Beginning
on Jan. 1, 2009, the standard mileage rates for the use
of a car (also vans, pickups or panel trucks) will be:
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55 cents per mile for business miles driven
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24 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes
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14
cents per mile driven in service of charitable
organizations
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Court
Upholds Public Employee’s Discharge for Refusing to
Submit to Drug Test
A
federal appeals court upheld the City of Marion,
Indiana’s termination of a “safety-sensitive” employee
who refused to submit to a random drug test. The Court
concluded that the City’s random drug test did not
violate the employee’s Fourth Amendment right against
unreasonable searches. Krieg v. Seybold, 7th
Cir., (March 21, 2007).
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The Union Police
Unions keep losing membership as a share of the national
workforce, which explains why organized labor's main political focus is changing
the rules to force more workers into unions. Witness a bill that Senate
Democrats are pushing to require that hundreds of thousands of local police and
firemen submit to collective bargaining.
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Heath-Care
Costs to Rise in 2009
American workers with job-based health insurance can
expect to spend 8.9% more for their health care in 2009, according to a study.
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Approaching Deadlines for Human
Resource/Payroll Professionals
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Latest Department of Labor Numbers
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