DOL Releases Fact Sheet on Break Time for Nursing Mothers Under FLSA

DOL Releases Fact Sheet on Break Time for Nursing Mothers Under FLSA
The fact sheet provides general information on the break time requirement for nursing mothers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”). From the fact sheet:

General Requirements
Employers are required to provide “reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk.” Employers are also required to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.”

Smart Phones Mean Not so Smart Driving

Smart Phones Mean Not so Smart Driving
Unless you have been living under a rock over the past five years, you've heard that using a cell phone while driving, or text messaging, could dramatically increase your risk of an accident. These risks increase several times if you're using an Android, iPhone, Blackberry or any other smart phone.

It shouldn't take super smarts to understand that using a phone that allows you to surf the web, send e-mail, and perform a dozen different activities while driving, increases your accident risks. It will however take super smarts to figure out effective solutions that can combat these risks. Simply asking people to switch off their smart phones while driving does not seem to work as well as Las Vegas car accident lawyers had hoped.

Do All Personal Injury Cases Involve Physical Injury?

Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by B. Ervin Brown
Personal injury refers to physical harm as well as harm to the emotions and mind. The same standards of negligence, incompetence, or deliberate misconduct apply. Winston-Salem injury attorney B. Ervin Brown, II, explains some cases where personal injury may not necessarily be a physical injury.

People who suffer physical injury as the result of an accident, negligence, or deliberate actions of another may also suffer mentally or emotionally as the result of ensuing lost wages and high medical costs. The mental and emotional suffering may not be limited to the person who suffered the physical injury. Severe accidents can also affect the family members of the injured party.