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.
Human Resources
Employment Laws Articles
-
How Can the Company Protect Itself From Liability for Supervisors Who Sexually Harass Employees?
The U. S. Supreme Court has ruled that employers are responsible for even a low-level supervisor's sexual harassment or other harassment of a person in a protected category (race, creed, religion, age disability, and sexual orientation) even if the ...
Read More » -
How Can You Defend the “Guilty”?
When I speak publicly about my work as a criminal defense lawyer, I am often asked "How can you defend someone you know is guilty". The question actually has different meanings to different people. To the young, it often presupposes that the ...
Read More » -
How Do I Determine if an Employee is Exempt from Overtime?
You must pay overtime to employees who works over 40 hours a week unless the employee is specifically exempt from overtime pay or receives compensatory time off during the same pay period as the overtime worked. There are exceptions to this general ...
Read More » -
How Do I Tame the Overtime Dragon?
How to correctly compute overtime seems to generate more calls than any other wage- and-hour issue. The basic rules are: 1. Whether or not a person is entitled to overtime depends on: (a) the fact the person is paid a salary, not an hourly wage; and ...
Read More » -
How Safe Is The Y2K Harbor For The Good Samaritan?
Congress has passed, and the President said he will sign,1 the "Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act," S. 2392. The purpose of the legislation is to "promote the free disclosure and exchange of information related to year 2000 ...
Read More » -
How to Fire Your Best Friend
INTRODUCTION While employment lawsuits arise out of all sorts of circumstances, the event that still triggers most employment-related lawsuits is discharge. It is critical, therefore, that all managers and supervisors with firing authority receive ...
Read More » -
How to Protect Your Fees in Worker’s Compensation Cases: Lack of Physician Lien Means Looking for Other Ways to Recover
Do you often find yourself cheated out of treatment fees when caring for workers' compensation patients? Since there are no physician liens in workers' comp claims, you need to know how to protect yourself.Here are some of the surest ways to ...
Read More » -
HR’s Role in HIPAA Security Compliance
Suffering "HIPAA Privacy Rule fatigue," many human resources and benefits professionals have passed the compliance baton for the HIPAA Security Rule to their colleagues in the Information Technology (IT) Department. Letting IT grapple on its own ...
Read More » -
Huge Cost Of Unemployment Benefits Poses Dilemma For All Louisiana Employers
Louisiana faces an unprecedented level of unemployment benefits paid as a result of the impact from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This article discusses the state's liberally-granted unemployment benefits and how the price tag could prove quite ...
Read More » -
Hurt On the Job? The Ten Commandments of Workers’ Compensation
If you have a work injury, your employer is required to pay for your lost time and medical expenses. So remember, in the event of an accident at work, follow these simple rules: O'Brien, Shafner, Stuart, Kelly & Morris has been handling both state ...
Read More »