2007 Ad

Monthly Labor Review, Jan, 2008 by John J. Fitzpatrick, Jr., James L. Perine

Worker privacy. Arizona added the position of code enforcement officer to the list of public employees, and others, who may request that the general public be prohibited from accessing the unique identifier and the recording date contained in indexes of recorded instruments maintained by the county recorder. Florida statutes were amended to exempt certain personal identifying information from the public records requirements. Now exempt is personal identifying information that is contained in records documenting an act of domestic violence and that is submitted to an agency by an agency employee. Indiana expanded the categories of public records that may not be disclosed by a public agency unless access to the records is specifically required by a State or Federal statute or is ordered by a court under the rules of discovery. Except when data are to be released to certain Federal, State, and local government entities, Nebraska employers shall not publicly post or display, in any manner, more than the last four digits of an employee's Social Security number, or otherwise make more than the last four digits available to the general public or to an employee's coworkers. Nevada amended the exemptions from State law that authorize the release of the home address of a peace officer by a law enforcement agency. New York employers shall make reasonable efforts to provide a room or other location, in close proximity to the work area, where an employee can express milk in privacy. Confidential employment information secured by the Oregon Employment Department may be provided to the State Department of Transportation to assist that department in carrying out its duties relating to the collection of delinquent and liquidated debts, including taxes, due under the State Revised Statutes and the State Vehicle Code. In Tennessee, the residential address, as well as the personal telephone and cell phone numbers, of any State, county, municipal, or other public law enforcement officer shall now be treated as confidential and not open for inspection by members of the public. It is now unlawful in Virginia for any person to publish the name or photograph of a law enforcement officer, along with identifying information, with the intent to utilize that information to coerce, intimidate, or harass the officer. It is now unlawful in Washington State for any person, firm, or corporation to require, either directly or indirectly, that any employee or prospective employee take or be subject to any lie detector or similar tests as a condition of either employment or continued employment.

Alabama

Other legislation. Active and contributing members of a city or municipal retirement system who participate in the State Employee Retirement System and who have rendered prior service as a full-time firefighter with a nonparticipating city employer which has been annexed into a city or municipality that participates in the retirement system may purchase credit, including credit for hazardous duty service in the retirement system, for prior service if the member pays to the secretary-treasurer of the retirement system, prior to the date of the member's retirement, a sum equal to the full actuarial determined cost for each year of service purchased, as determined by the actuary for the system. The local government entity that currently employs the member shall furnish the retirement system with documentation of the prior service being claimed by the member, as requested by the retirement system.