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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The Jackson Lewis Ten Step Response to the New Rules on Workplace Sexual Harassment
In its landmark sexual harassment decisions, the Supreme Court has issued two clear mandates to employers: First, take immediate, bold and continuing steps to prevent harassment from occurring in the first place. Prevention is the only "no ...
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The Law Did Not Bend-Arm Wrestling
A worker who engaged in arm wrestling at work, which resulted in a spiral fracture of the right humerus with scarification, was engaging in an activity that was neither endorsed nor approved by his employer. On May 23, 1994, Nelson Quinones was ...
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The Laws and Regulations Governing Allowable Executive Compensation
Over the past three years, Congress has taken upon itself to regulate the compensation of government contractor employees and, in particular, defense contractor employees. Congressional interest first manifested itself in the 1995 DOD Appropriations ...
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The Likelihood of Employer Liability for Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Has Increased Based upon Recent Supreme Court Decisions
The United States Supreme Court recently issued two decisions in the area of sexual harassment. These cases discussed the standard of liability imposed on employers for supervisory sexual harassment that creates a hostile working environment. In ...
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The Long Reach of the Cat’s Paw
Fired employees can sue for wrongful discrimination even if their employer's actual decision makers were neutral and without discriminatory intent. This may happen when decision makers rely on misinformation submitted by a supervisor or high-level ...
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The MACPA Statement Fair Market Value In ESOP Transactions: A Moving Target
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) present outstanding planning potential for your corporate clients, be they large, not so large, and even relatively small, so long as they are profitable. The aggregation of benefits bestowed upon them by ...
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The Many Faces of Workers’ Compensation Subrogation
More than any other area of personal injury subrogation, workers’ compensation subrogation is often fraught with traps and pitfalls for the unwary subrogation professional. This is primarily because most subrogation professionals assume that ...
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The Motor Carrier Exemption Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
---DISCLAIMER--- Fact Sheet No. 019 The Motor Carrier Exemption Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Section 13(b)(1) of the FLSA is an exemption from overtime. The provisions of Section 7 (overtime) do not apply with respect to any employee ...
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The necessity of employer VIGILANCE under California’s “bounty hunter” law
One of Governor Davis' last acts in office was signing S.B. 796 permitting employees (and so-called "bounty hunter" attorneys) to bring civil suits, including class action lawsuits, to recover penalties from employers for violations of the Labor ...
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The New Bounty Hunter Law and its Recent Reforms
A. Labor Code Section 2699: The Original Bounty Hunter Law On January 1, 2004, the Labor Code Private Attorney General's Act went into effect. Signed by Governor Davis on October 12, 2003 as Senate Bill 796, this statute created a private right of ...
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