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Tribunals and the Court of Justice of the European Union consider whether sick workers can carry over statutory holiday andor holiday pay

  • Jones Day
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  • European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 3 2012

In Adams and another v Harwich International Port Ltd, an employment tribunal held that sick workers may carry over their statutory annual leave entitlement until the next leave year (but not necessarily beyond) if unable or unwilling to take it due to sickness or if so required by the employer

Health care facilities must adopt safe patient handling policy for health facilities (AB 1136)

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2011

AB 1136, the Hospital Patient and Health Care Worker Injury Protection Act, adds Labor Code Section 6403.5, which requires health care employers to adopt a patient protection and health care worker back and musculoskeletal injury prevention plan

NLRB issues controversial decision on standard for unit appropriateness determinations

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 25 2011

On August 26, 2011, in the third major decision released on Chairman Wilma Liebman's last day at the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "the Board"), the Board announced its 31 decision to reverse Park Manor Care Center,1 which had defined the standard for determining units in nonacute health care facilities for 20 years

The use of surveillance film in disciplinary proceedings

  • Jones Day
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 31 2011

Where surveillance film is relied upon as evidence of the fairness of an employee's dismissal, footage should be examined by an expert and any investigation should be fairly and thoroughly undertaken

Disciplinaries and right to a fair hearing

  • Jones Day
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 31 2011

The European Convention on Human Rights provisions on legal representation at internal hearings will only be engaged where the outcome of the proceedings will have a substantial effect on an employee's right to practise their profession

Current CEO faces possible exclusion from federal health care programs

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
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  • April 21 2011

Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published its "Guidance for Implementing Permissive Exclusion Authority."

Genes for justice? Using gene expression analysis to identify the molecular footprints of environmental hazards

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

Forensic identification techniques have a long history

Surprise for employers: no collective bargaining exception under health care reform

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
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  • June 25 2010

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended ("PPACA"), contains a provision titled "Preservation of Right to Maintain Existing Coverage."

Balancing patient and employee interests: health care employer responses to the H1N1 pandemic

  • Jones Day
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  • USA
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  • November 27 2009

The outbreak of the H1N1 virus along with this year’s seasonal flu have left many health care employers considering what steps they should take to protect employees and patients

ECJ decision on holiday entitlement lost due to illness

  • Jones Day
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  • European Union
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  • October 26 2009

The ECJ has decided that where a worker falls ill before or during a planned period of paid annual leave, he should be given the right to take that portion of statutory annual leave at another time, even if this means carrying it forward into the next year