Employment Law Alphabet Soup
Janell Grenier's post several weeks back noting the myriad of abbreviations in the benefits world reminded me of the "employment law alphabet soup" that I used to share with my students many years ago. Not sure where it originated and, unfortunately, failed to find the original. So, alas, I had to start all over. Here's the new 2005 "unofficial" employment law alphabet soup.....
A - ADEA, AAP's, ADR
B - BFOQ
C - COBRA, Comp Time, Consumer Report, Comparable Worth
D - Disparate Impact/Treatment, Disability, Discipline/Discharge
E - EEOC, ERISA, EPA
F - FLSA, FACTA, FMLA
G - Glass Ceiling Recommendations, Government Contractors, Good Faith
H - Handbooks, HIPAA, HMO's, Hostile Environment
I - Intermittent Leave, IRS, Investigations, IRCA
J - Just Cause
K - KSA's
L - Labor Relations, Layoffs
M - MSDS's, Mediation, Military Leave
N - NLRA
O - OSHA, OWBPA
P - PDA, Privacy
Q - Quid Pro Quo Harassment
R - Religious Discrimination/Accommodation, Restrictive Covenants, Releases, RIF
S - Sexual Harassment
T - Trade Secrets and Confidential Information, Third Party Harassment
U - USERRA, Unemployment
V - Violence in the Workplace, Voting Time Off
W - WARN, Weingarten Rights, Waivers
X - eXcelsior List
Y - Yield Ratios, Yellow Dog Contract
Z - Zero Tolerance
There are many more that can fit here, but we'll have to wait until I lose this and have to start over again. In fact, why don't we just let Janell be the keeper of the lexicon since she's come up with hundreds already! Thanks to Heidi Hayden at Epstein Becker and Green for X and Y - my brain stopped working by the time I got to the end of the alphabet.
