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

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Employer Insurance Programs

PBGC administers two pension insurance programs, the single-employer program and the multiemployer program. The single-employer program protects about 33 million participants in about 43,000 pension plans. Under this program, a company can ...
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Pension Benefits for Multinational Employees

This memorandum outlines our suggestions regarding the treatment of multinational employees; that is, employees who transfer between countries and retirement programs during their careers with a multinational employer. We recommend the adoption of a ...
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Pension Guarantees

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insures the retirement benefits of about 42 million Americans - one of every three working persons - in about 45,000 pension plans. Since 1974, when Congress created PBGC to guarantee payment of ...
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Pension Plan Premiums

Following are answers to questions frequently asked by employers and pension professionals regarding PBGC premiums. If you do not find the answer to your particular question, please see the premium instructions or contact our customer service ...
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Pension Plan Terminations

Following are answers to questions frequently asked by employers and pension professionals relating to termination of defined benefit pension plans insured by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. If you do not find the answer to your particular ...
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Pension Termination

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) was created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to protect the pensions of participants in private defined benefit pension plans. PBGC protects participants when employers ...
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Personal Injury and Worker’s Compensation

QUESTION NO. 1 I was injured in an accident. The other party's insurance company adjuster has made an offer to me to settle the case. When I responded by telling the adjuster that I thought maybe I should discuss the matter with an attorney, the ...
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Personality Testing: Do Your Pre-Employment Tests Violate the ADA?

In June, an Illinois federal court of appeals issued a decision that may have a drastic impact on the use of "personality tests" in the employment setting. Steven, Michael and Christopher Karraker, three brothers who worked for Rent-A-Center ...
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Personality Testing in Employment

Faced with an increasingly competitive business environment, many employers are turning to employment testing as a way to improve their workforces. In a recent survey, forty percent of Fortune 100 companies indicated that their ...
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Power of Attorney for Health Care

A power of attorney is a written instrument in which one person (the principal) appoints another person or persons (the agent or attorney-in-fact) to act in place or on behalf of the principal. This document permits the agent to make health care ...
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