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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Overtime Collection and Class Actions: The Need for Reform
In years past, when a recently-terminated employee walked into an attorney's office to discuss possible legal action against a former employer, the first issue the attorney would usually want to explore was what protected class or classes the client ...
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Overtime Laws
In case you haven't noticed, the laws relating to overtime pay are complicated and confusing. The Industrial Welfare Commission has now issued an Interim Wage Order which makes the following clarifications: It makes it clear there is no ...
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Overview of Independent Contractor Guidelines
The IRS in looking at the status of a worker for a corporation looks at the employer's "right to control" that individual. If the employer has the right to control the manner in which the worker performs the services, then the worker is an employee ...
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Overview of the Privacy Act of 1974
Prepared by the Office of Information and Privacy in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), it is updated and expanded each year. Any inquiry about the Privacy Act's provisions should be made to individual agency Privacy Act ...
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P&I Ranks Largest Funds
Following its annual tradition, Pensions & Investments has listed the nation's 1,000 largest employee benefit funds. Totalling almost $4.4 Trillion, pension fund assets are generally broken down into defined benefit ($3.4 Trillion) and defined ...
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PA Golf Courses Can Hire Minors 14 and 15 years old
Gov. Ridge of Pennsylvania signed into law a bill (now Pennsylvania Act 67 of 1999) on December 16, 1999 that amends the Child Labor Law to allow 14 and 15 year old minors to work at golf courses so long as they are not permitted to serve or handle ...
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Paid Time Off for Partial Day Absences and Maintaining “Exempt” Employee Status
On January 7, 2005, the U.S Department of Labor (DOL) issued an Opinion Letter confirming that employers may deduct less than a full day from a salaried, overtime- exempt white-collar employee’s PTO bank for absences due to personal reasons ...
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Parties can Contract for Broad Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards According to U.S. Appellate Court
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on December 9, 1997, ruled that parties to an agreement can contract for broader judicial review of an arbitral award than permitted under the Federal Arbitration Act ( FAA ), 29 U.S.C. §10, 11. LaPine ...
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Payment of Disability Benefits Following a Finding of Maximum Medical Improvement
In Neal v. Carolina Management, ______ N.C. ________, _________ S.E. 2d ______, 1999 Plaintiff was a 57 year old female who worked as a waitress for the defendant-employer since 1986. Prior to beginning work for the defendant-employer, plaintiff ...
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Pennsylvania Adopts The Separate Reaction Theory For Latex Allergy Claims
The Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has followed the theory adopted in a majority of jurisdictions that each discrete reaction to latex products constitutes a separate injury. Even though the worker may have suffered a reaction ...
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