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

Answers to Questions from Small Businesses Regarding the Provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

HIPAA's group market rules apply to every employer group health plan that has at least two participants who are current employees. Further, States have the option of applying the group market rules to groups of one. Some States have elected to do ...
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Appeals Courts Provide FMLA Relief

In July, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Florida, ruled invalid the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") Regu-lation which provides that if an employer fails to specifically and prospectively inform an employee that the employee ...
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April 1999 Civil Rights Alert

The Sixth Circuit found that the employee was subjected to a hostile work environment based on race because of these ongoing incidents which created an unreasonably abusive and offensive work-related environment that adversely affected the African ...
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Arbitration Agreements: Ninth Circuit Upholds Heightened Judicial Review In Deference To Terms of Parties’ Agreement

The Ninth Circuit, in La Pine Technology Corp. v. Kyocera Corp.; Kyocera Corp. v. Prudential-Bache Trade Services Inc., No. 9615319, 96-15321 (December 9, 1997) ("La Pine"), recently held that a clause in the parties' agreement that broadened the ...
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Arbitration Clause May Prevent Private Suit

The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari to address the issue of "whether a general arbitration clause in a collective bargaining contract bars an employee covered by the contract from filing his own lawsuit under a federal ...
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Arbitration Of Employment Claims

The enforceability of arbitration agreements as they apply to employment discrimination claims received attention in two recent cases, Wright v Universal Maritime Service Corp and DeCaminada v Coopers & Lybrand. In Wright, a unanimous U.S. Supreme ...
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Are Advances Available For Injured Workers’ In Difficult Financial Times?

The answer is yes, according to the First DCA in This case was heard on a Motion for Rehearing by the E/C to clarify the former opinion found at 24 FLW D 1546. The E/C appeals an award by the JCC of a cash advance of $2,000.00. At the time of the ...
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Are Workplace Legislation and Judicial Protectionism Towards Employees Nudging Unions Towards Extinction: Are Congress and the Courts Setting the Floor or Dropping the Bottom Out of Union Representa

For approximately thirty years, federal and state legislatures, as well as the judiciary, have enacted laws and extended protections to unionized and non-unionized employees alike. At various times during these years the economy has been weak and ...
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Are You A “Best-Workplace” Employer?

If you have any concerns regarding your responses to the above questions, Human Resource Attorneys can meet with you to evaluate your workplace ...
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Are Your Clients Prepared For A Visit from the Department Of Labor?

Last year, the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") officially began an audit of the construction industry which the department hopes will be as successful as its attack on the garment industry was. Construction projects in and around Harris ...
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