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In Tuesday’s election, four states — Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah — approved ballot measures that would guarantee employees the right to secret-ballot voting in union elections. We decided to ask employment law attorneys in each of the four states — all members of the Employers Counsel Network — about the outcome of […]
by Thomas E.J. Hazard, Holland & Hart LLP Democratic Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper moves across the street from City Hall to the Capitol as Colorado’s new governor after handily defeating American Constitution Party candidate Tom Tancredo and Republican candidate Dan Maes. Hickenlooper replaces Democrat Bill Ritter as governor. However, unlike Ritter, who enjoyed a Democratic-controlled […]
by Mark Schickman, Freeland Cooper & Foreman LLP Politically, California bucked the national move to the right, reelecting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Barbara Boxer — two poster children for the perceived overreaches of the Obama administration. In the governor’s race, it rejected the claimed business savvy of former e-Bay CEO Meg Whitman, instead […]
by Dinita L. James, Ford & Harrison LLP Arizona voters surfed the national Republican wave, flip-flopping the party affiliation of its U.S. House delegation, putting every statewide office in Republican hands, and likely giving the GOP a supermajority in the Arizona Legislature when final vote tallies are in. The election results are sure to lead […]
by Thomas M. Daniel, Perkins Coie LLP Alaska voters appear to have rejected Tea Party favorite and Sarah Palin-endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller in favor of write-in candidate Senator Lisa Murkowski. The write-in votes have yet to be counted, but they seem to be sufficient for Murkowski to claim victory. Miller, a West Point […]
Voters in Oklahoma decided to show their disapproval of the insurance mandate found in federal health care reform by passing a health care choice measure on Election Day. The initiative allows Oklahoma residents to opt out of health care mandates by prohibiting laws that would make residents, employers, or health care providers participate in a […]
by David I. Weissman, Ford & Harrison LLP Arizona voters resoundingly said “no thank you” to federal health care reform legislation on Election Day, voting in favor of Arizona Proposition 106 by a fairly significant margin. Proposition 106 amends the Arizona Constitution by: prohibiting any law or rule from compelling any individual, employer, or health […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, we covered the issue of in loco parentis for employees wanting FMLA leave to care for a son or daughter. Today, the other direction—when an employees want leave to care for the person who stood in loco parentis for them, plus an introduction to the "FMLA Bible." FMLA Definition of ‘Parent’ For […]
by Mark Adams At first glance, nothing significant came out of Louisiana’s midterm elections. There were no Tea Party candidates to create excitement. Republicans and Democrats each lost a U.S. House seat and won a seat they hadn’t controlled, so we didn’t contribute to the change of control in the House. However, the Republican takeover […]
By Dinita L. James As of Thursday morning, the outcome of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act remains too close to call. The no votes on Proposition 203 outnumbered the yes votes at one point late this morning by a slim 6,700-vote margin, with three precinct results incomplete and an unknown number of early voting ballots […]