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 New DOT DBE Rule is Narrowly Tailored
Determination of goals by reference to the availability of qualified firms in the relevant industries Overall goals represent the level of DBE participation a recipient would expect absent discrimination, and must be based on evidence of the ...
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The New Sexual Harassment Pitfall: The Fair Credit Reporting Act and Sexual Harassment Investigations.
Just as the United States Supreme Court in its Faragher v. City of Boca Roton, 524 U.S. 775 (1998), and Burlington Indus., Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998), decisions has emphasized the importance of an appropriate response to allegations of ...
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The Outer Limits of Workers’ Compensation
Three recent appellate court cases test the reach of workers' compensation trade-off protections for workers and immunity for employers. Case 1: An Employee Fired for Filing a Comp. Claim Against His Previous Employer Can Sue for Retaliation. In the ...
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The Plot Thickens: A Post Duffield Update on Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements and Statutory Discrimination Claims
The May 1998 issue of Workforce included an article entitled "Pre-Dispute Arbitration Agreements and Their Application to Statutory Discrimination Claims." In addition to providing the general historic framework of the debate over the enforceability ...
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The Prevailing View on Prevailing Wages
Recently enacted California legislation impacts when a private development project will be classified as a "public work," triggering the payment of so-called prevailing wages. Prevailing wages are hourly work rates published quarterly by the ...
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The Private Attorneys General Act Of 2004: One Of California’s Newest Laws Threatens To Flood Employers With Class Action Lawsuits When An Ounce Of Prevention Could Avoid Them
In one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation affecting employers in California this year, (recently recalled) Governor Davis signed into law a bill that authorizes – and seemingly invites – class action lawsuits against every small, medium ...
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The Randomness of Random OFCCP Audits
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") is a government agency that is entrusted with monitoring the affirmative action efforts of certain federal contractors and subcontractors. Specifically, companies that provide goods and/or ...
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The ROI from Employee Training
To train or not to train. Because most companies are driven by return on investment (ROI), training employees on proper workplace behavior is often not a priority, since it means dedicating financial resources to the training and having employees ...
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The Role of Corrective Measures Under the ADA
Do people with a "correctable" condition have a disability covered under the ADA? For now, it depends, at least in part, on where you live. The EEOC's interpretive guidance (which is the way the EEOC interprets its own guidelines and is not binding ...
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The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
HHS FACT SHEET December 18, 1998 Contact:HRSA Press Office (301) 443-337 On August 18, 1990, Congress passed Public Law 101-381, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act by wide, bipartisan margins in both houses ...
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