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

Litigating Employability

The employability or re-employability of a worker is much litigated in the area of workers' compensation. Whether a worker can return to his previous job, or, to any other job is a question that must be addressed in all phases of the litigation ...
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Los Angeles Labor & Employment Alert: The New Millennium Means The Return of Daily Overtime

In 1998, the California Industrial Welfare Commission ("IWC") removed the decades long requirement that non-exempt employees working under Wage Orders 1 (Manufacturing), 4 (Professional, Technical, Clerical, Mechanical and Similar Occupations), 5 ...
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Lyme Disease-Groundskeeper Awarded Benefits

A groundskeeper working at a local country club was found to have contracted Lyme disease. His job included picking up trees and tree limbs, maintaining the lawn and maintaining the grounds at the golf course all year round. During the summer of ...
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Major Supreme Court COBRA Ruling

As we reported in our last Newsletter (June, 1998), the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a major decision involving COBRA continuation coverage. In Geissal v. Moore Medical Corp., 1998 U.S. LEXIS 3732, the High Court held that a former employee may not ...
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Making Part-Day Deductions From Leave Banks of Exempt Washington Employees? Better Do It Right

Are you taking part-day deductions from the leave banks of employees exempt from overtime when the employees leave work early because of illness or vacation? If so, you need to be aware of a new regulation that takes effect on February 21, 2003. To ...
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Managing Employee Absenteeism

When an employee works a standard five-day week, one can assume 260 workdays exist annually. After subtracting 10 days on average for vacation and another 10 days for federal, state and local holidays, an employer could expect 240 workdays a year ...
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Managing the Reduction in Force

Even in boom times, a company may find itself facing the prospect of a reduction in force. The announced proposed merger of Exxon and Mobil was accompanied by an announcement that 9,000 employees would lose their jobs. How does an employer manage a ...
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Mandatory Arbitration: A Growing Concern for Employees

Our present legal system was built upon a foundation of certain rights and remedies. The most basic and important right is the right an individual possesses to have their grievances settled by a jury. The Declaration of Independence guarantees the ...
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Mandatory Arbitration of Employment Dispute Upheld

The substantial increase in lawsuits by disgruntled employees and former employees is forcing employers to look for alternatives to the high cost of litigation and the disruption to their business attendant with litigation and full-scale discovery ...
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Maritime Damages for Wrongful Death

The Eastern District opinion in the case of In re: Denet Towing Service, F. Supp. (E.D. La. May 21, 1999), may now cast doubt on the understood limitations and uniformity for damages in maritime wrongful death cases of seamen after Miles v. Apex ...
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