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

Teachers Allowed Benefits During the Summer Months

The consensus that usually prevails when the New Jersey Supreme Court decides workers' compensation claims was shattered this term when the Court dealt with an issue that could affect the ongoing school funding controversy. Justice O'Hern, writing ...
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Telecommuting: Here Today But Gone Tomorrow?

On January 4, 2000, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had quietly posted an advisory ruling on its website in November 1999 which stated that an employer is responsible for federal and ...
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Temporary Regulations Issued on Mental Health Parity

As we reported in our December, 1997 Newsletter, the Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 ("MHPA"), which amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), became effective January 1, 1998. Provisions implementing MHPA were added to ...
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Temporary Services, Staffing Companies and Their Customers: Are They Joint Employees or Not?

(The Voice, An Industry Bulletin, California Association of Temporary Services, No. 2, 1995) Whether temporary services or staff leasing companies are joint employers of temporary and leased workers can determine legal liabilities for everything ...
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Temporary Twilight Zone

Independent contractors, temporary employees and part-time employees account for almost twenty-five percent of the total U.S. workforce. Collectively, these groups of workers have been termed the "contingent workforce," and have been the subject of ...
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Ten Keys To Successful Personnel Management In Local Government?

Introduction: Governments find themselves in personnel litigation more often than private sector employers. One reason for this is that public employees have more rights than do their private sector counterparts. This litigation comes in the form of ...
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Ten Rules For Negotiating Business Transactions

I believe the most effective negotiating techniques for business transactions are slightly different than negotiating tactics used in other contexts. Because business negotiations often involve multiple issues and transactions in which the ...
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Terminated California Governor Designates Employees As Private Attorneys General

Outgoing Governor Gray Davis has signed the "Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004" (Senate Bill 796). The Act authorizes aggrieved employees to file lawsuits against employers who violate any provision of the voluminous California Labor ...
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Test Your Knowledge

This case, handled by Jack Sevey of The Crow Law Firm, illustrates a good example of a violation of the Federal Safety Appliance Act. The Safety Appliance Act requires that railroad cars be equipped with couplers that couple and uncouple ...
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Texas Labor And Employment Case Law

, 962 S.W.2d 536 (Tex., February 13, 1998): The Court held that Tex. Labor Code § 417.002(a), which requires that a workers' compensation carrier be reimbursed out of any third party recovery by the claimant for all benefits paid for his injury ...
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