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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California Supreme Court issues two important and long awaited decisions interpreting California’s Unfair Competition Law
The California Supreme Court on August 24, 2000 issued an important ruling approving the concept of mandatory, employer-imposed arbitration agreements for resolution of employment disputes. The Court required that such agreements be bilateral ...
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California Wage and Hour Laws Investigation and Hearings
The Division of Labor Standards Enforcement ("DLSE") administers and enforces all labor laws not specifically under the jurisdiction of other state agencies. California Labor Code Section 95. The Chief of the Division is known as the Labor ...
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Cameraphones: Innocuous Gadgets Or Workplace Threats
Employers have become wary of these fun little devices because they have the potential to create big privacy problems on the job. Not surprisingly, we're being asked to advise clients on employees' use of cameraphones. More employers are realizing ...
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Can New Jersey Employers Require its Employees to Arbitrate Discrimination Claims?
There has been a great deal of controversy between employees and employers regarding the enforceability of arbitration clauses in employment agreements, employee handbooks or job applications. This is especially true when litigating discrimination ...
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Carolinas Employers Should Evaluate Mexican Labor Laws Before Going into Business in Mexico
During the last two years, a record number of Carolinas-based employers have started doing business in Mexico, in many cases to take advantage of the low base wage rates. Some of those employers, however, have concluded that the burdensome ...
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Case Evaluation and Penalties
The valuation of permanent disability benefits including the type and extent of such benefits as well as the issue of penalties. The types and amounts of benefits are statutory which leaves the Industrial Commission powerless toward a remedy where ...
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Caution: Legislators at Work: A Survey of Recent Federal Healthcare Legislation
As an attorney involved in representing health care providers for many years, I have become familiar with the various roles of different groups of management within the healthcare industry, and the functions of those various levels of management. We ...
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Change in Compliance Dates for Qualified Retirement Plans
The Internal Revenue Code issued an advance copy of Rev. Proc. 99-23 on April 6, 1999. That document extends the deadline for amending qualified retirement plans to comply with changes in the law which resulted out of the following laws: 1.The ...
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Change in Retiree Health Benefits Violated Union Contracts
A report from BNA indicates that Schenectady, New York, violated police and firefighter union contracts when it changed the health benefits of retired police officers and firefighters. From 1969 through 1989 union contracts all contained the ...
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Choice of Doctor
Article provided by the Eley Law Firm. Please visit our Web site at www.eleylawfirm.com. In Colorado, employers have the right to select the treating physician (referred to as the "authorized treating physician") for an employee who is injured at ...
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