Blog Posts in September, 2008
Posted on Sep 25, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
Millions of Americans with diseases or impairments such as diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, cancer and carpal tunnel syndrome will be protected from job discrimination under a new disability rights ...
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Posted on Sep 24, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
Bullying in the Connecticut workplace is not illegal. We receive many phone calls and emails from Connecticut workers who are being verbally abused and bullied in the office and believe that they have ...
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Posted on Sep 22, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
on September 22, 2008 6:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) What is a hostile work environment? A work environment may be found to be "hostile" when managers or co-workers are engaging ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request by global shipping giant FedEx to review a $100,000 punitive damages award against it for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf package ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
Claims of employment discrimination are evaluated under the burden shifting analysis set forth in Ford v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, Inc., 216 Conn. 40, 53-54, 578 A.2d 1054 (1990). ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
Two new categories of FMLA leave were created by a 2008 amendment: Injured Service Member Leave. Employees who are the spouse, parent, child or "next of kin" of a service member who suffers a serious ...
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Posted on Sep 2, 2008 By James V. Sabatini
Vincent Sabatini is pleased to announce that he recently obtained a settlement for a client whose husband had past away. Prior to his death, our client and her husband refinanced their home with Wells ...
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