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(Labor & Employment Newsletter - 2002) An employee who perceives that his employer has intruded upon his reasonable expectation of privacy may sue under the common law claims of "Invasion of Privacy"/"False Light," or "Intrusion Upon Seclusion." View Article The above publication is saved in PDF format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this document..

Under Maryland’s "new" sexual orientation legislation, codified at Md. Code 1957, Art. 49B, employers may not, in making employment decisions, discriminate on the basis of their applicants’ or employees’ sexual orientation. The legislation broadens Maryland’s civil rights law banning discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, color, national origin, marital status, and disability to include a ban…

This paper focuses on jurisdictions in which the insurance codes appear to authorize insurance commissioners to order payment of policy benefits to an individual insured as a result of a determination that the insurer has violated the Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act.

Although the General Assembly has set forth by statute certain areas of private affairs which cannot be transgressed even in the context of the employment relationship, the advent of the electronic workplace has raised a veritable host of issues touching upon the realm of private affairs not addressed directly by legislation. View Article The above publication is saved in PDF format. You will need the…

In Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (March 19, 2002), the Supreme Court ended the dispute over a controversial Department of Labor ("DOL") regulation that provided employers a grand total of "one or two business days" to designate an employee's leave from work as qualifying under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 ("FMLA"). The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 allows, among…

(Labor & Employment Newsletter - 2002) While there are both federal and Maryland laws which address privacy there are few which explicitly address privacy rights in today's complex and sophisticated electronic workplace. View Article The above publication is saved in PDF format. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this document.