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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Leave It Out? Family And Medical Leave Act Claims May No Longer Be Waived By A General Release
Based on the recent decision in Taylor v. Progress Energy, No. 04-1525 (4th Cir. July 20, 2005), the common employer practice of including Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claims in general releases is in jeopardy. Although it is unclear whether ...
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Legislation Aims to Improve New Jersey’s Benefit Structure
Over the course of the last few years the United States economy has undergone radical change that will require New Jersey industry to reevaluate the manner in which it conducts business. New Jersey's robust economy is reflective of a national trend ...
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Legislative Alert
The Wyoming legislature began its general session on January 14, 2003. The bills that have been filed so far are a mixed bag of technical workers' compensation and unemployment insurance changes as well as a couple of unique labor-friendly ...
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Lex Mentis: Civil Rights for the Aesthetically-Challenged
Most of us are shameless "lookists." We have a natural preference for good-looking people over ugly ones, whether in the context of hiring employees, selecting a mate, or watching movies or television. To date, most employers have largely been free ...
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Lex Mentis: Taking Out the Garbage
The scenario is all too familiar. A plaintiff in a harassment or discrimination lawsuit puts an "expert" witness on the stand to testify that in his or her opinion, the defendant employer discriminated against the plaintiff, or that a sexually ...
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Lex Mentis: The Transvestites’ Bill of Rights
In 2003, California became only the third state to enact legislation specifically protecting transgendered employees from workplace discrimination. It did so, moreover, in a clumsy and ill-defined fashion that will likely lead to considerable ...
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Lex Mentis: What’s God Got to do With It?
Most of us think of religion in terms of a deity, a set of defined values and traditions, and a moral code emphasizing virtuous behavior. But not the EEOC and most courts. In an absurd, politically correct effort to avoid passing value judgments at ...
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Lex Mentis: You’re Looking at Me Like I’m Crazy!
"A nut case." "Crazy as a loon." "A Total Fruit Cake." "Just ain't right in the head." We often use terms such as these to refer to people who behave peculiarly, at work or otherwise. Until recently, the use of such expressions was fairly harmless ...
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Light Duty Program Reserved for Employees Injured on the Job Need Not Be Extended To Pregnant Employees
The Eleventh Circuit has ruled, consistent with the Fifth Circuit, that reserving a light duty program exclusively for employees suffering from work-related injuries does not violate the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. In Spivey v Beverly Enterprises ...
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Litigating a Workers’ Compensation Claim: The First Step a Claimant’s Perspective
Pretrial conferences are required to be held by Arbitrators in each case that has been stipulated for hearing. The exact method for setting a case for hearing differs from docket to docket, but the general procedure is to file a form called a ...
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