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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Family & Medical Leave Act Developments
Throughout the years, the American workplace has become increasingly regulated and complex through the passage of laws designed to benefit and protect employees. Accordingly, employers and human resource professionals need to be more aware than ever ...
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Family And Medical Leave Roundup
The Family and Medical Leave Act requires employers with 50 or more employees to offer up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to employees who have worked for the employer for 12 months and for 1,250 hours during the 12 months preceding the leave. With ...
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Family Medical Leave Notice and the Threshold Illness Period
Two Federal Appeals courts clarify Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rights on two growingly common issues: 1) How restrictive can personnel departments make the hoops for employees to jump through for notification of FMLA-leave claims? 2) Do ...
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FAQs for Worker’s Compensation
If you were dependent upon your spouse for economic support you are entitled to death benefits from Workers' Compensation insurance. If you or your spouse had children that were economically dependent upon your spouse at the time of his or her ...
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Federal and State Statutes Pertaining to Termination, Discharge, Overtime and Wages
Have you been terminated or discharged? Do you feel that your discharge was motivated by the fact that you filed a workers' compensation claim? Do you feel that you were discriminated against due to race, sex, color, age, handicap, disability ...
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Federal Issues Target State Workers’ Compensation Programs
Reprinted with Permission From The National Workplace Injury Litigator The battlefield for the assault on state workers' compensation programs has shifted from the state capitals to the halls of Congress. Industry and their insurers are now shifting ...
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Feelings Mixed As Workers Weigh Job Security Post September 11
Key findings have been reported by a new Employment Law Alliance (ELA) poll, focusing on attitudes toward job security in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Contrary to popular perception, more than 60% of American workers are very ...
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FELA Basics
When a railroad worker is injured on the job, the right to compensation is governed by a Federal law known as the Federal Employers' Liability Act commonly called the FELA. The FELA became law in 1908 as a result of public anger over the devastating ...
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FICA Tax on Early Retirement Incentives Paid to Faculty: Benefits Briefs. Vol. 13, No. 2
FICA tax is imposed on “wages”” paid by an employer to an employee. It is well established that severance pay, dismissal pay, golden parachute pay and similar payments are considered wages subject to FICA. In a case that every retired professor in ...
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Findlaw Interview with Mark Jansen of Townsend and Townsend and Crew
: Please give us a brief overview of the case. The plaintiff, PowerAgent, was an "Internet bubble" start-up company whose business plan was to offer monetary or other "points" rewards to consumers who would register at its website, fill out a ...
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