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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Bullard-Plawecki Employee Right-to-Know Act

The Bullard-Plawecki Employee Right-to-Know Act provides employees working in the state of Michigan with an ability to acquire their employment records. If you are a current or former employee working for someone with four or more employees, you have a right to request a review of your employment records. This law covers employees in both public and private sector jobs.

If you would like to access your personnel file, you must make a written request to your employer. In your request, you should include your name, Social Security number, dates of employment, and branch number or location of the facility.

Generally, you will be allowed to view your personnel file twice a year. The review of your file usually occurs at a location near your place of employment during regular working hours. If you are reviewing an employment file kept by your current employer, you will not have to take time off from work to review it. However, if you are reviewing a file from a former employer, you may be required to take time off.

If you disagree with the information in your file, it can be removed or changed provided that the corrections are agreed upon by both you and your employer. If you and your employer cannot agree on the changes, you may submit a written statement explaining why you feel this information is incorrect. Your written statement will become a part of your employment file.

Your employer is legally required to comply with this act. If he fails to do so, you may bring an action for compliance in your county’s circuit court.

Please contact the attorneys at Jay Trucks & Associates, P.C. today to speak with one of our employment law specialists if your employer tries to deny you access to your personnel file. We serve clients in Lansing, Fling, and Saginaw, Michigan.

posted by Patti at 9:16 AM

Monday, February 16, 2009

A threat to public health

Contrary to Sally Pipes' claims, no jury has ever pulled a drug from the market. Removing a drug is a decision made solely by the FDA. Likewise, only the FDA can change a drug's warning label. The black box warning on SSRI antidepressants to which Pipes referred was added because the FDA determined the warning was needed. Months earlier, the same warning was added to antidepressants in Britain, which has a minimal tort system relative to ours.

Pipes presents herself as a defender of physicians against big bad lawyers. But the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of American Medical Association have come out squarely against FDA preemption, the lawsuit shield Pipes advocates. Indeed, the editors insist that such a shield would be a cataclysm for public health, drug company accountability and patient rights.

Writer:Henry Greenspan
Ann Arbor

posted by Evan Langsted at 8:19 AM

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