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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Injured at Work?
When an employee is injured by accident, or contracts a disease, arising out of and in the course of his/her employment, he/she may be entitled to receive Workers' Compensation. The employer, manager or supervisor should be notified that a work ...
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Injured Employees: You’ll Be Back WHEN?
Make no mistake about it: Jurors, generally, identify and sympathize with employee/plaintiffs - not employers. After all, each juror usually either is or has been an employee and prospective jurors who are part of senior management are normally the ...
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Injuries at Sea: Establishing Liability
Over the past year, I have had the pleasure of authoring a series of articles outlining principles of maritime law. This article will focus on establishing liability under general maritime law and the Jones Act. In an upcoming Trial News, I will ...
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Insufficient Evidence to Support Full Commission’s Findings
Claimant suffered a compensable injury in August of 1989 and later had four back surgeries. After those operations, employer could not place claimant and continued paying him benefits. Employer learned through surveillance that claimant had applied ...
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International Arbitration Clauses Keep Trading Partners on Track
A Conroe-based designer and builder of electrical power plants has been contacted by a regional government entity to build a power plant in the Ukraine using local labor. While the project sounds lucrative, the prospect of labor strikes, corruption ...
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Intoxicated Worker Awarded Workers’ Compensation Benefits
An employee fell from a narrow, eighteen foot high scaffold in the course of assembling a sheet metal roof. Even though there was evidence admitted at the trial that he had consumed a gallon and a half of hard alcohol, drank two beers that day and ...
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Investigating Employee Wrongdoing and Workplace Misconduct: Navigating the Amended Fair Credit and Reporting Act
With the new Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT) signed into law on Dec. 4, 2003, Congress amended the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and clarified the FTC's role in regulating workplace investigations. Specifically, the amendments ...
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Investigator’s Corner: Liability: How it Effects Your Case
The amount of money that an injured railroad employee can receive in a settlement or jury verdict in an F.E.L.A. case depends on many factors. First among those factors is liability. Think of liability as set of scales balancing what the railroad ...
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Iowa Court Liberalizes Latex Claims
In a landmark case, the Iowa Supreme Court decided that latex allergy/sensitivity claims are to be considered work related accidents rather than occupational diseases and that sensitized workers are entitled to receive workers' compensation benefits ...
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IRS Issues New Temporary Regulations on Cutback Notices
On December 15, 1995, the IRS issued new temporary regulations on so-called "204(h)" notices. The purpose of a 204(h) notice is to give affected participants minimum advance notice of a significant reduction in the rate of future benefit accruals ...
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