Employment Law Newsletter: Recent Legislation Addresses Genetic Discrimination and Consumer Product Safety

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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Wyrick Robbins attorneys L. Diane Tindall, Mary M. Williams and J. Kellam Warren have released the latest issue of The Resource: A Legal Newsletter for Employers & Human Resource Professionals.

This issue discusses two federal laws recently passed by Congress in 2008:

• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA, with employment discrimination provisions effective as of November 21, 2009)
• Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA, with protections for “whistleblower” employees who engage in protected activity, effective immediately)