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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Sexual Harassment Policy Creates Employment Contract
In a somewhat surprising decision, the Illinois Appellate Court recently ruled that a company's strongly worded sexual harassment policy may create an implied employment contract. Corluka v. Bridgford Foods of Illinois, Inc. On July 15, 1994 ...
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Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Now Mandatory for California Employers
Prudent employers have trained managers and employees on preventing unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace for years. Such training helps employers avoid conflicts that result in litigation and can also help defend against lawsuits ...
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Sexual Harassment Recent Developments
In two companion cases, the United States Supreme Court recently announced a new framework for employer liability in sexual harassment cases. In Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Kimberly Ellorth, Case (June 26, 1998) and Faragher v. City of Boca ...
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Sexual Harassment-The Roadmap to Avoid Liability
Two years ago the United States Supreme Court issued two landmark opinions (&graphurl=&court=US&case=/us/000/97%2D569.html" >Burlington Industries v. Ellerth and &graphurl=&court=US&case=/us/000/97%2D282.html" >Faragher v. City of Boca Raton) which ...
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Sexual Harassment: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Hold Employers Liable
The U.S. Supreme Court has recently decided two important cases in the area of sexual harassment: Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth, Docket No. 97-569 and Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, Docket No. 97-282. These cases follow on the heels of two ...
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Sexual Harassment
The explosion of sexual harassment litigation in the U.S. since the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the related testimony of Anita Hill is all too well-known to employers. In spite of a reluctance on the ...
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Show Me the Money: Wage and Hour Lawsuits Soaring in Popularity
Within the past year, the number of lawsuits filed by employees seeking to recover unpaid overtime wages has dramatically risen, and in many states have actually surpassed the number of discrimination lawsuits filed by employees. The stakes and ...
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Sidley & Austin-Alternative Dispute Resolution
In Industrial Electronics Corp. v. iPower Distribution Group, (7th Cir. May 31, 2000), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently ruled that an arbitration clause in a franchise agreement did not cover a dispute between the ...
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SIMPLE: Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers
Small businesses have a new vehicle to help their employees save for retirement. Called the SIMPLE plan—Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers—it gives businesses with 100 or fewer employees an affordable way to offer ...
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Six Years Later. . . The Statuts of the Work Made for Hire Doctrine and the Reid Test after Aymes v. Bonelli
The 1992 landmark case, Aymes v. Bonelli, on which I served as lead counsel for the defendant,3 presented the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit with its first opportunity to implement the multi-factor test for applicability of the work ...
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