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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Michigan Supreme Court Decides Three Important Cases

In Town v Michigan Bell Telephone Co, the Michigan Supreme Court recently upheld the dismissal of age and sex discrimination claims. The decision is significant because, for the first time, Michigan's highest court formally acknowledged the "same ...
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Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Title VII Standard for Imposing Liability for Sexual Harassment under Michigan Law

In Chambers v Trettco, Inc, (July 31, 2000) the Michigan Supreme rejected by a six to one margin the U.S. Supreme Court's standard for imposing liability under Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act on employers for sexual harassment allegedly ...
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Michigan Supreme Court Rules that Harassment on the Basis of Pregnancy is Actionable

The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that harassment on the basis of pregnancy is actionable as a form of sex discrimination. In Koester v City of Novi a police officer complained about comments made to her concerning her pregnancy by the assistant ...
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Michigan Supreme Court Rules That Tuition Contracts for On-The-Job Training Violate Wages and Fringe Benefits Act

The Michigan Supreme Court recently ruled that an employer violated the Wages and Fringe Benefits Act ("WFBA") by requiring an employee to sign a tuition contract which required reimbursement for mandatory on-the-job training if the employee failed ...
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Military Leave: Employers’ Obligations

In light of our country's anti-terrorist military efforts in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and the large number of citizens who are being called up or are signing up to serve in the armed services, it is important that employers be familiar with their ...
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Milwaukee Radiologist Awarded Benefits for Latex Allergies

On Feb. 25 a jury in Milwaukee awarded a radiologist $1 million for doctors' bills and damages in her lawsuit against glove manufacturer Smith & Nephew of England. Workers' Compensation Acts, in most jurisdictions, do not prohibit an additional ...
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Misclassifying Employees as Independent Contractors can be Costly

Employers may face serious financial exposure when an individual the employer classified as an independent contractor is determined to be an employee entitled to employee benefits under the terms of one or more of a company's employee benefit plans ...
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Model Benefit Plan/Compensation Practice Exclusion Provision

Our firm has developed a model provision designed to exclude contingent workers from benefit plans and other compensation practices even when their employment status has been misclassified. This generic provision must be customized to each ...
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Montana Legislature Considering Several Bills of Interest to Employers

Although no labor or employment legislation has yet been enacted into law, the Montana Legislature is considering several bills of interest to employers. House Bill 359 would require you to provide rest periods of at least 10 minutes after an ...
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N.C. Supreme Court to Review Decision On Alteration of Agreements

Late last year, the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard a case wherein two workers' compensation claimants brought an action against their employer and insurer, alleging fraud, unfair and deceptive trade practices, intentional infliction of ...
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