STATE EMPLOYMENT LAW Purpose: The surveyor, in a supervisory role, must be cognizant of state employment law. Background: Choose a state that you plan to work in or do work

in. Analysis: In a memo, compare a state's employment law against a similar federal employment law. For example, you may wish to compare the state's family medical leave law with the federal family medical leave act or the state's discrimination law against the federal discrimination law. Not all aspects of the law need to be compared, only those aspects that are different and may have an effect on a survey employer such as the number of employees that would trigger the law the state law but does not trigger the federal law. 1