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The only basis asserted by the Board, before the Court of Appeals and here, for rejecting respondent's proof of supervisory status with respect to directing patient care was the Board's interpretation of the second part of the test-to wit, that employees do not use "independent judgment" when they exercise "ordinary professional or technical ...
[15] [16] [17] According to the guidance, which does not change policy, EMTALA, as a federal law, supersedes state laws that ban abortion. So, doctors who perform emergency abortions to stabilize a patient are protected by EMTALA. Hospitals that fail to do so could face fines or be booted from Medicare.
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. [1] The FMLA was a major part of President Bill Clinton's first-term domestic agenda, and he signed it into law on February 5, 1993.
A patient's bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care. It may take the form of a law or a non-binding declaration. Typically a patient's bill of rights guarantees patients information, fair treatment, and autonomy over medical decisions, among other rights.
Monica, who declined to use her last name for fear of immigration enforcement, is part of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program granting temporary work visas from deportation.
Subsequent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board, Appellate courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court have further defined what other activity is protected and concerted for the purposes of gaining Section 7 protections. The test for what actions are mean to be protected asks what employee actions did Congress intend to protect under the NLRA.
To induce labor, Ellyn Mayor, who was 10 days past her due date, had been given a cocktail of medications, and was feeling loopy. “I was shaking so badly that my G must have looked like a B ...
Two other Federal laws, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act [24] (PDA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (PPACA, also known as the Affordable Care Act, the ACA or Obamacare) [25] amendment of the Fair Labor Standards Act, [26] provide some additional protection for parents on the birth of a child. For instance, the PDA upholds ...