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	<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Should We Throw Up Our Hands?</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/should-we-throw-up-our-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We may be inclined to answer yes, given all the bad stuff around us that&#8217;s supposed to get worse. Managing Leadership has an interesting post on taking individual responsibility, even in these turbulent times. Food for thought.
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		<title>Bill Richardson and Background Checks</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/bill-richardson-and-background-checks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Danger Zone: Hiring]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Politics &amp; HR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Weeks ago, we read about how candidates considered for top jobs in the Obama administration would be subjected to historic vetting. Though some complained about intrusiveness, this was a sign that Washington was indeed going to change. Well, not so much.

With New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson&#8217;s withdrawal as Obama&#8217;s nominee for Secretary of Commerce because of a grand jury investigation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Personal Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/obamas-personal-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/obamas-personal-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Employee Communications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Handbook Policies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Health care reform is a favorite subject of Barack Obama. It&#8217;s still said that this reform is high on his list of things to accomplish early in his administration. The state of the economy makes reform more difficult, but America&#8217;s appetite for health care reform seems to be at an all time high.

Obama has a personal health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of This Year&#8217;s Experts</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/one-of-this-years-experts/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/06/one-of-this-years-experts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[HR Humor]]></category>

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		<title>Deep Throat: Good or Bad?</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/deep-throat-good-or-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/deep-throat-good-or-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[C-Suite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[In the Courts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Communications]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics &amp; HR]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supervisor's Corner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Talent Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a post about The Man Gene. So, those already thinking about the movie Deep Throat should get your minds out of the gutter.

Deep Throat was the name given to the principal informant for Bob Woodward and Carl Berstein as they wrote story after story in the Washington Post about Watergate in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Day for the ADA</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/a-new-day-for-the-ada/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/a-new-day-for-the-ada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ADA Amendments Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[C-Suite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Danger Zone: Discrimination]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Federal Legislation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[In the Courts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ADA Amendments Act is now effective. In a sense, we&#8217;re starting all over when it comes to disability discrimination. It&#8217;s likely to take a few years of court decisions to know for sure what the ADAAA has done to the Americans with Disabilities Act. In the meantime, review my earlier post on the subject and pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging Into the New Year</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/blogging-into-the-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/blogging-into-the-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[HR News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Other Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure there will be no shortage of blogging this year. I&#8217;m planning to keep on keeping on, and I&#8217;ll pass along to you some helpful posts from other blogs I regularly read. In fact, I&#8217;ll try to do more of that this year.

If you want to jump-start your &#8216;09 blogging year, check out the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caroline Wants a Job &#8212; Tip of the Week</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/caroline-wants-a-job-tip-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/05/caroline-wants-a-job-tip-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret. Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, wants New York&#8217;s Governor David Paterson to appoint her to the U.S. Senate seat now held by Hillary Clinton.

For someone who was 16 when Kennedy was assassinated, I&#8217;ve always felt close to Caroline and, before his death, John John. I don&#8217;t know her, of course, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate BS Takes a Breather</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/03/corporate-bs-takes-a-breather/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/03/corporate-bs-takes-a-breather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My weekly Corporate BS (usually posted on Saturday) is taking a rest. That&#8217;s not to say I won&#8217;t use some Corporate BS in future posts. I may even call out a word or phrase of Corporate BS from time to time.

In considering my blogging for 2009, it was necessary to think outside the box about next steps, talk off-line with those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oney &#8212; HR Song of the Week</title>
		<link>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/02/oney-hr-song-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://employmentlawpost.com/theword/2009/01/02/oney-hr-song-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Phillips</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It just may be appropriate to start the new year with a warning of sorts from the late, great Johnny Cash. His song &#8220;Oney&#8221; tells of what can happen when a long-time, hard-working employee retires and uses his retirement party to give his nitpicking, perhaps abusive supervisor something to remember him by.


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