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ALERT: FRSA Trumps Railroad Attendance Policy Discipline!

By Charlie Goetsch on September 30, 2013
Posted in Federal Rail Safety Act

It’s official: railroad employees who follow their treating doctor’s orders not to work cannot be disciplined for those absences, even if the absence is due to an off-duty medical condition. Why? Because Bala v. PATH now is the law of the land, having just been affirmed in full by the highest appeals tribunal in…

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