Publications, Videos and Web Tutorials
---- listed alphabetically by general employment topic
***Benefit Plan Reporting***
Reporting and Disclosure Guide for Employee Benefit Plans issued by the U.S. Department of Labor Revised Oct. 2008
***Discrimination***
Compliance Obligations Under Federal Non-Discrimination Statutes (Chart updated nov. 2009 to include GINA)
Table of Recordkeeping Requirements/IRS Revenue Procedure 75-50.
Staff Layoffs and Reductions in Force: Managing the Risks (12.15.08)
A publication by ACE, NACUBO, and UE, authored by Lawrence White and Martin Michaelson. This memo addresses both non-discrimination issues and contract issues, as well as other employment issues in the context of staff layoffs at colleges and universities.
Fall 2009 Faculty Newsletter
Faculty in Times of Financial Distress, By Anne Franke for ACE
Monograph on Examining Governance, Exigency, Layoffs and Alternatives (June 2009)
***FLSA***
FLSA: Professional Exemption for Computer Employees Dec. 14, 2006 Department of Labor Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2006-3. The gist of the bulletin is that the exemptions under Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA and 13(a)(17) for computer employees are not meant to be mutually exclusive, but rather 13(a)(17) (added in 1996) was meant to be an additional express statutory basis for the computer employee exemption. See 29 CFR 541.400 et seq. for the general rules for computer employees.
***Foreign Employment***
Winston and Strawn Recent Developments in EU Employee Data Privacy Law 2007 Discusses issues on collection and retention of data for employees in the European Union. The Privacy Directive may affect how U.S. employers with employees abroad handle personal data of employees.
***Student employment issues
Report published by the American Federation of Teachers and setting forth the Federation's standards of good practice in the employment of graduate students employed by institutions of higher education. The standards cover compensation, employment practices, professional responsibility and support, and rights of unionized graduate employees.
***Immigration***
NACUANOTES January 20, 2010 E-verify Compliance for College & University Federal Contractors
***Information Technology and employment***
Social Media and the Workplace: Managing the Risks (Feb. 2010) A Jackson Lewis monograph that summarizes relevant laws on employee use of social media such as Facebook and blogs, and possible employer and employee liability for misuse, both intentional misuse and negligent misuse.
***Policies***
CUA policy web page
***References and Release of Information on Employees***
NACUANOTES Jan. 2005 College and University Employee References
***Miscellaneous***
NACUANOTES June 2006 Non-Solicitation Rules and Union Organizing
links updated 6/9/08 rab
updated by mlo 11/29/09
Last Revised 10-Mar-10 10:16 AM.