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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Practice Makes Perfect-Personnel Issues In The Office Family And Medical Leave Act Of 1993
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993("FMLA" or the "ACT") Public Law 103-3(107 Stat. 6; February 5, 1993), (29 U.S.C., § 2601 et seq.) became effective August 5, 1993. On January 6, 1995, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of ...
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Pre-Dispute Agreements to Arbitrate Statutory Discrimination Claims: Are Plaintiffs Gaining the Upper Hand?
Pre-dispute arbitration agreements have again become a hot topic in the employment arena, not only because they provide a faster and less expensive way to resolve disputes, but also because they require employees to waive their right to a judicial ...
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Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements and Their Application to Statutory Discrimination Claims
Pre-dispute arbitration agreements are those agreements between an employer and an employee that require an employee to arbitrate disputes against an employer which have not yet arisen. These agreements allow both employers and employees to overcome ...
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Pre-Tax Commuting: A New Employee Benefit
Savvy companies can help their employees pay commuting costs pre-tax. The IRS recently published guidance on how employers can establish qualified transportation spending account plans to permit their employees to pay the following expenses on a ...
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Preparing for Government Contract OFCCP Audits
Is your affirmative action plan (AAP) up to date? How about your supporting documentation? Have you reviewed the latest requirements for interviews, job applications, vendor and supplier nondiscriminatory certifications, applicant flow logs and ...
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Preserving the At-Will Relationship
Originally published in the Orange County Business Journal"At-will" employment or the right to terminate employment at any time AND FOR ANY OR NO REASON, i.e., with or without cause, has been the law in California and most other states for a very ...
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President Clinton Signs Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act
On October 19, 1998, President Clinton signed into law the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act (the Act). In enacting this legislation, Congress found that (i) the Year 2000 computer problem, if not effectively addressed, could ...
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Private Whistle-Blower’s Act Differs from Public Whistle-Blower’s Act
Sections 448.101-448.105, Florida Statutes, comprise the "Private" Whistle-blower's Act; sections 112.3187-112.31895, Florida Statutes, the "Public" one. The two acts significantly differ. The Public Whistle-blower's Act specifically provides that ...
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Procedures To Reduce the Risk of Litigation and Liability for Discharges
An employer's liability insurer may not be responsible for defending or indemnifying the company against claims of intentional wrongful discharge. See, e.g., B & E Convalescent Ctr. v. State Compensation Ins. Fund, 8 Cal. App. 4th 78 (1992). In La ...
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Professional Employer Organizations and the National Labor Relations Act
A discussion of the joint employer doctrine as it affects Professional Employer Organizations and their clients for purposes of vicarious liability, bargaining obligations, and vunerability to secondary boycotts. The full text of this article is ...
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