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

Chronic Beryllium Disease Suffers Get Recognition

"The Cold War Compensation Act" is the first federal workers' compensation program to be implemented in the last twenty years. The benefit program that will be offered to beryllium workers amounts to a federal bailout of a monopolistic private ...
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Claimant’s Fall While Helping Relative Held Compensable

Claimant worked with several other workers on a production team and her pay was based on productivity. On the day of her accident, she was informed by a distraught coworker (Bright), who was married to claimant's nephew, that the nephew had been in ...
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Client Alert: April 2000

The Ides of April is ominous this year not only because of the annual April 15 deadline to submit your tax return. This year the Department of Labor.s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will be sending out "surveys" to 7,000 government ...
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Client Alert: August 1999

Punitive DamagesEEOC Guidance on Employer's Vicarious Liability for Workplace Harassment Three Supreme Court Cases Clarify ADA Obligations In Kolstad v. American Dental Ass'n, 119 S. Ct. 2118 (1999), the Supreme Court defined the standards for ...
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Clinical Lab Settlements Reflect Future Government Enforcement Actions

The Whistleblower initiated case against National Health Laboratories ("NHL") in 1992 resulted in the criminal conviction of officials of NHL and an $111 million civil recovery by the Federal government. This case triggered "copy cat" enforcement ...
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COBRA Continuation Rate Structure Clarified

Rules for continuation coverage under group medical plans through the provisions of COBRA require an employer to offer continuation coverage to employees and/or their beneficiaries when certain events occur. Those events include: In all of these ...
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Cobra Election Notices May Be Sent To All Beneficiaries at Their Common Residence

In a published opinion letter the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration has said that a single COBRA election notice may be sent to all beneficiaries who reside at a single address. Former employees, their spouses and dependents may all be ...
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COBRA Rules Set To Change

In 1986, the Department of Labor published the first model notice under COBRA. That notice soon became obsolete because of numerous changes in COBRA law. The proposed regulations include a new "general notice" of COBRA rights that should be given ...
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COBRA Update

The Sixth Circuit recently held that giving a COBRA notice to an employee is not sufficient notice with respect to the employee's spouse. McDoweel v. Krawchison, 125 F. 3d 954 (6th Cir. 1997). The Sixth Circuit stated that notice under COBRA must be ...
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Combined Effect of Several Ailments May Create “Serious Health Condition” Under FMLA

To this point, federal courts have been reluctant to expand upon the already expansive definition of "serious health condition" contained in the FMLA. However, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago recently ruled that an employee's ...
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