Employment Laws
Employment law covers all rights and obligations within the employer-employee relationship — whether current employees, job applicants, or former employees. Because of the complexity of employment relationships and the wide variety of situations that can arise, employment law involves legal issues as diverse as discrimination, wrongful termination, wages and taxation, and workplace safety. Many of these issues are governed by applicable federal and state law. This is FindLaw’s collection of Employment Laws articles, part of the Human Resources section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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Employment Laws Articles
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NLRB Issues Advice Memos on Employment At-Will Policies
On October 31, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board issued two memos that analyzed at-will employment clauses in employer handbooks. The memos are helpful guidance for employment attorneys and in house counsel to know what language passes ...
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Linking Community Factors and Individual Development
Series: Research Preview Author: NIJ Published: September 1998 Subject: Juvenile violence, juvenile delinquency prevention, family strengthening, community based corrections 8 pages 26,000 bytes ------------------------------- Figures, charts ...
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Alternative Dispute Resolution Developments
In Kahn Lucas Lancaster, Inc. v. Lark International, Ltd. (2d Cir. 7/29/99), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to enforce an arbitration clause under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral ...
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Alternative Method of Reporting USERRA “Make-Up” Contributions
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") recently announced an alternative method of reporting "make-up" contributions made pursuant to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemploy-ment Rights Act of 1994 ("USERRA"). Under USERRA, an employee who is ...
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Amendments to NASD and NYSE Analyst Standards Rules
On July 29, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") approved the proposed rule changes by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD") and the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. ("NYSE") (together with other self-regulatory ...
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American Disabilities Act
When the topic of the Americans with Disabilities Act is raised, most employers think about the obligation to modify job duties to accommodate an employee's disability. However, accommodation also includes basic physical accessibility. Further, the ...
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An Employee Cannot Sue An Employer For Providing A Prescription Drug That Caused An Adverse Reaction To The Employee
The Court in Payne v. Galen Hospital Corporation d/b/a Clear Lake Medical Center, 43 S.Ct.J. 1167, held that an employee cannot sue an employer covered by workers compensation insurance for providing a prescription drug to which the employee had an ...
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An Overview for Employers of the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act
As the present military call-up continues, it is becoming increasingly common for employers to be faced with one or more employees having to temporarily leave their employment to fulfill a military obligation. As such, it has become increasingly ...
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An Unnecessary Burden: How the NLRB’s “Decisional Bargaining” Doctrine Has Ignored Section 8(d)
The National Labor Relations Board's decisional bargaining doctrine, as it has evolved over the years, requires employers to bargain over the decision to transfer work out of the bargaining unit-such as through subcontracting or assigning the work ...
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Another Four Years: Employees Have More Time to Sue Employers For Racial Discrimination Claims
Recently, the United States Supreme Court, in Jones v. R.R. Donelly & Sons Co., addressed the applicable time period employees could sue employers for claims brought under a federal civil rights statute that prohibits intentional racial ...
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