Sentences with phrase «covered by their local laws»

Remember, your headquarters may be in one place, but your employees are covered by their local laws.

Not exact matches

So far, «most of the high - profile cases involve state or local actions that would not be covered by the federal protections,» said John Inazu, a professor at Washington University School of Law who has written several times about such cases for CT..

Other changes to the existing law will mean people with mental illness will no longer have to prove their condition is clinically well - recognised in order to be covered by the DDA, and local authorities and private members» clubs will be legally obliged to treat disabled people equally.

Arguably, state officials with a legislative role who are not members of the state legislature aren't covered, but this does not reflect common practice and this hole is often filled by a state constitutional provision or a state law or a local government charter.

The law covers counties, towns, cities and villages, will create panels which locally will be led by the Nassau and Suffolk county executives, to develop joint savings plans, hold public hearings and require local officials to justify their decisions to reject parts of the plans.

This local law, enacted for either one - or two - year terms by the Erie County Legislature, dedicated a portion of Erie County's real property tax for Library purposes and guaranteed that funds appropriated by the Legislature could not be re-appropriated to cover mid-year shortfalls elsewhere in the Erie County budget.

Inhumane puppy mill operators will also use this law as cover to evade any attempts by state or local lawmakers to combat puppy mills within the state.

2014 started off with a bang in the legal marketing world when Georgia lawyer Jamie Casino ran a two - minute local television ad during this year's Superbowl that includes (and I'm hardly scratching the surface here) biblical references, allegations of a cover - up by the area's chief of police in the death of Casino's brother, and a sunglass - clad Casino wielding a flaming sledgehammer to smash his brother's tombstone while a pounding heavy metal soundtrack plays in the background, all of which apparently provides the backstory for Casino's decision to move from criminal defense to personal injury law as his preferred area of practice.

Hosted by Thomson Reuters Practical Law ™, the webinar covered the Religious Land Use & Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and how it has changed the landscape of local zoning decisions and disputes involving religious exercise.

Among the most inefficient uses of capital by law firms is the way that most firms now pay for case expenses — that is, for all the experts, local counsel, discovery costs, tribunal costs and other non-time-based disbursements they must cover in order to bring commercial litigation and arbitration to fruition when they work on a fully contingent basis.

Specifically, we allow covered entities to use or disclose protected health information without individual agreement to federal, state, or local government agencies engaged in disaster relief activities, as well as to private disaster relief or disaster assistance organizations (such as the Red Cross) authorized by law or by their charters to assist in disaster relief efforts, to allow these organizations to carry out their responsibilities in a specific disaster situation.

Written by local experts in key jurisdictions, topics covered include: regulations governing direct distribution; potential restrictions, financial and tax considerations on foreign businesses» operations; distribution structures available to suppliers; regulation of relationships between suppliers and distributors; restrictions on the distribution of competing products; relevant consumer protection laws; restrictions on contractual choice of law, courts or arbitration tribunals; and dispute resolution, mediation and arbitration procedures and processes.

The portal is targeted at law firms, local and international businesses, law schools and their students, and covers countries often overlooked by such initiatives.

The EPA was administered and enforced by the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and signed into law by President John F. Kennedy, and it regulates the conduct of local, state, and federal governments and most private employers and covers virtually all workers.

State and local laws often provide broader coverage and prohibit discrimination based on additional classes not covered by federal law.

Where allowed by local law, the inspector will remove the covers off main distribution panels, subpanels and any other major disconnects in order to perform a scan of the breakers, fuses and wires.