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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Seinfeld Goes to Work
Newcomers to the American employment scene are often puzzled by the inconsistency between the anything goes freedom of expression that reigns in the media and the sexually neutral atmosphere that US law requires employers to enforce in the ...
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Selected Year 2000 Legal Issues to be Considered in Year 2000 Planning Efforts
Year 2000 Internal Examinations and Studies * Year 2000 Compliance Programs * Standards of Care of a Director * Counsel to Y2K Committees * Year 2000 Audit Projects Contracting Issues relating to Year 2000 Compliance * Year 2000 representations ...
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Selecting Retirement and Fringe Benefit Plan Providers
This year the United States Department of Labor finally articulated a principal that the benefit community had implicitly understood since the passage of ERISA in 1974. The selection of service providers for retirement or fringe benefit plans by a ...
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Self-Audits Of Employment Practices
With the complexity of statutes and regulations affecting the workplace, every employer can benefit from a periodic examination of its employment practices. An internal self-audit is a prudent way to measure compliance with federal and state laws ...
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Sense and Sensibility: Legislative Amendments to the California Labor Code’s Private Attorneys General Act
The California Legislature, in a burst of "common sense" in its treatment of employers, has amended California's "bounty hunter" law to eliminate some of its more onerous provisions. These amendments, known as Senate Bill 1809, revise and amend the ...
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Seven Deadly Sins Often Undertaken by Employers and How to Avoid Them
It seems that employers are subject to more and more legal restrictions and obligations each year. This dilemma is compounded by the changing workforce and recruiting methods employed by companies today, such as the use of temporary agencies. Below ...
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Seventh Circuit Gives Expansive Reading To FMLA
According to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (Chicago), an employee with multiple diagnoses -including high blood pressure, hyperthyroidism, back pain, severe headaches, and a sore throat - may proceed with her suit under the Family and Medical ...
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Seventh Circuit Rules Title VII Burden Shifting Analysis Does Not Apply To FMLA Cases
In a recent decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the court ruled that the burden shifting analysis utilized by the federal courts since 1973 in most employment discrimination cases does not apply to substantive ...
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Seventh Circuit Sets Out Liberal Standard For Same-Sex Harassment Lawsuits Under Title VII
On July 17, 1997, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago joined the growing fray when it explicated an extremely liberal standard for bringing same-sex sexual harassment cases involving ...
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Seventh Circuit Weighs Status of Independent Contractors
Chicago-based Cragin Bank for Savings retained loan originators to obtain mortgage loan business. Each loan originator entered into an agreement with Cragin that established the conditions of the loan originator's work and compensation. The ...
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