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

Sixth Circuit Clarifies Employer Liability for Co-Worker Harassment

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Blankenship v. Parke Care Centers (1997), expressed its view on an issue likely to reach the U.S. Supreme Court: employer liability for co-worker harassment. In this case an employee complained that a co-worker ...
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Slip and Fall Accidents

Slip and fall accidents can involve tremendous injuries as the body crashes down because someone other than the injured victim is negligent. The negligence can be not clearing ice or snow, defective or no lighting, holes or defects in the floor, no ...
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Social Security: How Worker’s Compensation And Other Disability Payments May Affect Your Benefits

Ordinarily, disability payments from other sources do not affect your Social Security disability benefits. But, if the disability payment is workers' compensation or another public disability payment, your and your family's Social Security benefits ...
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Social Security: Offsets & Structuring Workers’ Compensation Settlements

Published in the California Workers' Compensation Enquirer, September 1999 The interrelationship of public disability programs is an ever-increasing area of legal complexity. As temporary and permanent disability rates are increased by legislative ...
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Soft-Dollar Brokers Underperform Other Types of Brokers, According to Study

From a total trading cost perspective, soft-dollar brokers underperform most other types of brokers, according to a study by two university professors. Most investors are willing to pay more in commissions when they use soft-dollars because they ...
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Some Applications of ERISA to Executive Benefits Briefs. Vol. 13, No. 1

Companies award phantom stock to give employees a stake in the equity growth of the company without actually letting them own shares. In a typical plan, an executive is awarded a number of phantom stock units with a notional value equal to the ...
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Some Of Your Stock Market Investment Losses May Be Recoverable

Most people believe that losses in their investment accounts are simply part of the risk of investing in the stock market. That is not always correct. Losses are often a fault of the broker. Factors to be considered in assessing the broker's fault ...
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South Carolina Court of Appeals: Workers’ Compensation Update

There have been three significant decisions handed down by the South Carolina Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. The following is a summary of these three new cases: George Dodge v. Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, and Companion Property & Casualty ...
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South Carolina Supreme Court Adopts Balancing Approach to Determine Whether Disloyal Employees Are Entitled To Compensation

In its July 26, 1999, ruling in , the South Carolina Supreme Court held that an employer may withhold earned compensation from an employee fired for disloyalty to the employer. However, the ruling limits when an employer lawfully may withhold ...
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South Carolina Supreme Court Rules that Verbal Job Promise Did Not Create Employment Contract

The South Carolina Supreme Court has decided that a supervisor's alleged promise that an at-will employee would have a job as long as he "kept his nose clean" did not create a contract of employment requiring termination only for just cause. In ...
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