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The 2010 Update to the 1300 page Employment Law Manual for Wisconsin Employers contains 700 replacement pages of the most recent Wisconsin and federal employment law changes, including:

• ADA - expanded discussion of the EEOC's 9-23-09 proposed regulations interpreting the ADAAA and reversing 20 years of court decisions and employment practices
  
  
• Discrimination - extensive information added on class and collective actions, including wage and hour and employment discrimination claims; new information regarding the four categories of religious discrimination and guidance on best practices; factors to consider when determining the basis of who to layoff in RIFs
  
  
• FMLA - Wisconsin law adds domestic partners; federal law adds exigency leave eligibility for regular armed service members and 26 weeks for pre-existing injuries and veterans
  
  
• Employee Handbooks - amending policies to comply with the new FMLA laws
  
  
• Immigration - information regarding new I-9 Forms, and documentation, and requirement that government contractors use E-Verify (9/8/09)
  
  
• Wage and Hour - minimum wage changes, including all example boxes; new guidance on time clocks and the de minimus rule
  
  
• Health Insurance - effective 1/1/10 federal Michelle's Law continuing insurance for students on a medically-necessary leave; Wisconsin requirement that health insurance policies include dependents under age 27 and cover autism and contraceptives
  
  
• Benefits Continuation - new guidance box on health insurance continuation - COBRA subsidy provisions of ARRA (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act)
  
  
• Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 - pay discrimination claims can be filed within 300 days of the last discriminatory paycheck
  
  
• Wisconsin's Equal Pay and Enforcement Act - allowing compensatory and punitive damages in state discrimination claims
  
  
• Privacy - new guidance on HIPAA, ARRA and the Health Information Technology for Economical Clinical Health Act (HITECH) - security breaches of health information
  
  
• Restrictive Covenants - 2009 Wisconsin Supreme Court decision, Star Direct, Inc. v. Dal Pra; also six additional Wisconsin Court of Appeals cases discussed
  
  
• Unemployment Insurance - updated law on quit without good cause for illness of a family member, transfer of work, domestic abuse, and employee's spouse changing employment
  
  
• OSHA - penalty assessments updated
  
  
• Worker's Compensation - revised rates and definitions
  
  
• Hiring - new guidance on using employment tests with a disparate impact after Ricci v. DeStefano (6/29/09 U.S. Supreme Court decision)
  
  
• Downsizing - changes to Wisconsin's written plant closing notice requiring additional contact information (12/16/09)
  
  
• Separation Agreements - sample separation agreement and release updated
  
  
• Posters - seven new required federal and Wisconsin posters