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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Who is a Witness?
"I didn't even see the accident, what could I possibly tell you that would benefit anyone?"Our investigators hear this all of the time. The answer is, "You might be surprised." You may have important knowledge regarding an on duty injury and not ...
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Who is Entitled to Company Benefits?
Most companies structure employee benefit plans to provide benefits to employees of the company other than those who may be statutorily excluded, namely employees covered by collective bargaining agreements, nonresident aliens, and leased employees ...
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Who Looks After a Buyer’s or Seller’s Interests in a Real Estate Closing?
Each party most likely will be represented by competent experts before, during and after the closing. For example, the bank which issues a loan to a buyer usually retains an attorney to ensure that the bank's interests are represented. Additionally ...
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Who Owns Employee Inventions? The Employer Or The Employee?
It is dangerous for an employer to assume that it owns an employee’s inventions merely because its employee invented them. Similarly, employees should not assume that they own inventions merely because they invented them at home. Employee-inventors ...
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Why Not Just “Deal” With the Railroads Directly?
Spouses occasionally ask why they should talk to or hire an attorney. They say, "Why not let the company take care of things and find out what they might offer before talking to a lawyer?"In an ideal world that might make some sense. In the real ...
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Why the FELA is so Important
Prior to the passage of the FELA, the average life expectancy of a railroad worker was just seven years....The railroad robber barons of old felt railroad workers were expendable. If the truth be known, the new profit gouging, greedy corporations ...
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Wide Latitude for Retroactive Litigation Proposed in the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Title VII was built for speed. Discrimination charges are to be filed within a mere 180 days "after the alleged unlawful employment practice occurred" (300 days if the charge is first filed with a state or local agency). The EEOC can sue just thirty ...
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Willful Blindness
The Washington, D.C., Federal Circuit Court of Appeals came down hard on a corn- refining company that reportedly ignored serious dust and electrical explosion hazards and noncompliance written reports. The OSHA Review Commission's determination of ...
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Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Equal Rights Division Increases Minimum Wage Effective June 1st
Recognizing that the federal minimum wage has fallen to its lowest inflation-adjusted value of all time, and commenting that wages are "so low that workers and their families can't afford their most basic needs," the Wisconsin Department of ...
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Without A Subrogation Statute, Previous Subrogation Settlements Come Under Attack
In 2001, the Ohio Supreme Court declared unconstitutional and invalid the workers' compensation subrogation statute found under 4123.931 of the Ohio Revised Code. As a result of that decision, questions were raised concerning prior settlements ...
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