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Editor’s Note: William Joseph Austin, Jr. is a member of the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Ward and Smith, P.A. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010. A provision became effective immediately that requires employers who are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to provide mothers reasonable break time to express milk for their infants who are up to one year old. This article will answer some basic who, what, when, and where questions about the new law and dispel some of the misconceptions associated with it. Because...

Editor’s Note: Mr. Austin is a member of the Labor and Employment Practice Group of Ward and Smith, P.A. What is the Employment-At-Will Rule? Here is a serviceable formulation of the basic employment-at-will rule ("At-Will Rule"): Where a contract of employment does not fix a definite term, it is terminable at the will of either party, with or without cause. Thus, the At-Will Rule supplies a default provision for the term of employment when the parties themselves have not agreed on a specific finite period of time. What the At-Will Rule Is Not. The At-Will Rule often is confused...