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	<title>Virginia Lawyers Weekly &#187; Employment</title>
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		<title>Interstate Delivery Drivers Lose on Preemption Issue&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/15/interstate-delivery-drivers-lose-on-preemption-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Gerald Bruce Lee]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants summary judgment to defendant Lasership Inc. in this suit filed by a purported class of delivery truck drivers who allege they were misclassified under the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Statute, M.G.L. 149 § 148B. Though headquartered in Vienna, Va., Lasership maintains facilities in Woburn, Mass., and Meriden, Conn. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An HR headache: New worker privacy law will protect ‘personal information’&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/13/an-hr-headache-new-worker-privacy-law-will-protect-personal-information/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Correy E. Stephenson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Employment lawyers – and attorneys who run their own firms – should take note of a new, under-the-radar law set to take effect July 1. Under the new statute, employers are not obligated to disclose the “personally identifiable information” of current and former employees, including name, cell phone number and work schedule, to third parties. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Worker’s USERRA Claim Too Late&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/07/city-workers-userra-claim-too-late/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/07/city-workers-userra-claim-too-late/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A chief warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserves, who left his job as a municipal waste manager for periods of active service with the Coast Guard, waited too long to file his suit under the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, and the 4th Circuit affirms the district court decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepless lawyer loses disability bias case&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/06/sleepless-lawyer-loses-ada-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawyer who asked for an eight-hour work day as an accommodation for her insomnia has lost her disability bias case in federal court. Sleeping is recognized as a “major life activity,” the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, but the lawyer did not show that getting only two to four hours of nightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A trap for p.i. lawyers&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/05/06/a-trap-for-p-i-lawyers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 11:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Correy E. Stephenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal injury lawyers whose clients have employee health benefit plans may want to pay attention to a new U.S. Supreme Court ERISA case, in order to protect their clients and themselves. The case creates a “window and a trap,” according to one plaintiff’s p.i. lawyer: Lawyers need to check current cases to protect their attorney’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineer sued for leaving with data&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/25/engineer-sued-for-leaving-with-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vieth</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contract]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Mosby G. Perrow III]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trade secrets skirmish in a Lynchburg courtroom has become a sideshow in a high-stakes battle over a contract to manage the nation’s atomic bomb factory. While giant corporations jousted for the prized $22 billion federal contract, a former government overseer at the Texas nuclear weapons plant stood before Lynchburg Circuit Judge Mosby G. Perrow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiff prevails in first case brought under amended VFATA &#8211; $208,100 Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/22/plaintiff-prevails-in-first-case-brought-under-amended-vfata-208100-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Verdicts & Settlements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexandria Circuit Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Plaintiff is a licensed architect with 35 years of experience in construction management and architecture. He was hired in January 2008 by the City of Alexandria to be the senior project manager for the new Alexandria police facility. The &#8220;APF&#8221; was and is the second-largest construction project ever undertaken by the city, with a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Long-Term Disability for Former Exec&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/18/no-long-term-disability-for-former-exec/</link>
		<comments>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/18/no-long-term-disability-for-former-exec/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Robert G. Doumar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former executive of a trader magazine publishing company loses his ERISA suit seeking long-term disability benefits for his conditions of anxiety, depression and ADD, as a review by four independent physicians does not support his claim; the Norfolk U.S. District Court also denies plaintiff’s claim for over $100,000 in civil penalties for the company’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Worker Can Grieve Discipline, But Not Discharge&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/05/city-worker-can-grieve-discipline-but-not-discharge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Elkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Employment Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion Digests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Charles E. Poston]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the former assistant director of a victim/witness assistance program may grieve her discipline for violating an office policy on rental car use, she may not grieve her dismissal, as grievance of termination for “special project” employees such as plaintiff is expressly disallowed by the city code, says a Norfolk Circuit Court. As a result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisor liable, but employer is not, on ‘Bowman’ claim &#8211; $6,713 Verdict&#160;</title>
		<link>http://valawyersweekly.com/2013/04/01/supervisor-liable-but-employer-is-not-on-bowman-claim-6713-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Virginia Lawyers Weekly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Employment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Hanson sued his former employer, 1 Foot 2 Foot and its owner/supervisor, Dr. Matthew C. Dairman, for wrongful discharge. Hanson’s theory of recovery was retaliatory discharge against public policy, first recognized in Bowman v. State Bank of Keysville, 229 Va. 534 (1985). Hanson claimed that Dairman fired him because Hanson would not allow his [...]]]></description>
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