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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Review of Credibility Decisions by the Full Commission
In Adams v. AVX Corporation, ________ N.C. ________, ________ S.E. 2d ________, 1998 WL 646487 (N.C. 1998)(151 PA 98), the Supreme Court addressed the issue of the Full Commission's authority to review and reverse a Deputy Commissioner's credibility ...
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Review of the 1995-96 NJ Supreme Court Workers’ Compensation Decisions
The 1996 court term set forth standards for occupational disease claims, defined defenses available, provided interpretation regarding third party liens, further defined standards to be utilized in the presentation of evidence and set forth ...
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Review of Workers’ Compensation Law 15-8 (2)
The July, 1995 Defense Law Letter is dedicated to a summary and review of Workers' Compensation Law '15-8(d). In instances of compli-cated, or long-term claims, relief from sole liability pursuant to reimbursement under '15-8(d) can be extremely ...
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Revised FLSA Regulations, Effective August 23, 2004, Set New Standards For Overtime Compensation
The United States Department of Labor's long-anticipated, much debated revised regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") finally have been issued, and will take effect on August 23, 2004. The most notable change in the new regulations ...
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Revisiting Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Disputes: A Cost Efficient Method of Resolution?
Employment litigation is on the rise. Current and former employees disgruntled with their termination, lack of promotion or dissatisfied with an annual review resort more and more to the courts. Even the weakest of discrimination and wrongful ...
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Ring in the New Year with an Updated Employee Handbook
Employee handbooks serve to communicate personnel policies, workplace rules, benefits, and work standards in an integrated manner. Handbooks provide supervisors and HR personnel with a reference guide for implementing and enforcing company policies ...
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Rogues in HR CLothing Can Create Punitive Liaibility
Last summer in the case of Kolstad v. American Dental Association, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that a company will be insulated from punitive damages when a rogue manager engages in sexual harassment despite the company's good-faith efforts to ...
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Rules of Conduct for Securities Attorneys
Jeffrey Knetsch, partner at Brownstein Hyatt & Farber, discussed the importance of the new attorney rules of conduct for securities lawyers, "The SEC's 'up the ladder' reporting requirements for attorneys went into effect in August 2003 and will ...
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Rules Relating to IRAs
The following is a synopsis of some of the rules relating to traditional IRAs which may be of interest to you: Required Beginning Date (RBD). Named owners of traditional IRAs must begin to take required minimum distributions from their IRAs by April ...
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Russian Roulette Not Compensable
An armored truck employee died on the job while playing Russian Roulette. The security guard was required to carry a hand gun while performing his job. In August of 1989 he was assigned with two other guards to the employer's armored trucks. As the ...
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