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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SEC Approves Final NYSE and Nasdaq Corporate Governance Standards

On November 4, 2003, the SEC approved final amendments to the NYSE and Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. The final amendments are nearly unchanged from the proposed amendments summarized in our Public Company Advisories dated October ...
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SEC Approves NYSE and Nasdaq Rules Relating toShareholder Approval of Equity Compensation Plans

Effective June 30, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new rules of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and of the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) that significantly broaden shareholder approval requirements for equity-based ...
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SEC Expected to Approve Final NYSE Corporate Governance Listing Standards

Completing a process that began in June 2002, the SEC is expected to approve the New York Stock Exchange's new corporate governance listing standards. This Advisory discusses the proposed standards as published by the NYSE on October 9, 2003. In ...
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SEC Issues Formal Guidance on Year 2000 Disclosures

In 1997, virtually everyone heard about the "Year 2000 Problem" or millenium bug. Early this year, the SEC staff strongly suggested that public companies should disclose in their periodic filings how the bug would affect their operations. Many ...
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SEC Issues Interpretive Release on Year 2000 Disclosure Requirements

This article originally appeared in the October 1998 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and is republished with their permission. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or ...
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SEC Issues New Interpretation on Expense Sharing

Originally published in the January/February 2004 issue of Currents, a publication of the National Society of Compliance Professions. It is common practice for broker-dealers to enter into expense sharing agreements with their parent companies or ...
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SEC Releases Strict New Guidelines Requiring Expanded Public Company Disclosure of Year 2000 Issues

According to the new guidelines, a company must provide Year 2000 disclosure in the Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) section of its '34 Act filing (10-Qs and 10-Ks) if it meets either of the following criteria: (1) its assessment of its ...
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SEC Turns Up the Heat on 401(k) Fiduciaries

This is not an easy time to be a 401(k) plan fiduciary. With frightening regularity, attacks have been launched by government agencies and plan participants, some successfully, at fiduciaries. And never has the group of potential plan fiduciaries ...
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SEC Update: Y2K Disclosure and “Plain English” Requirements

The SEC does not believe that most issuers are adequately addressing their Y2K readiness. It also believes that Y2K issues will be material for the vast majority of companies. As a result, August 3, 1998 the SEC issued new guidelines on Y2K ...
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Securities Law Update: March 1998

This edition of the Securities Law Update addresses disclosure obligations and ways to minimize potential management liability for Year 2000 problems. "Year 2000" or "Y2K" problems arise out of the inability of certain computer systems to properly ...
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