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

Workers’ Compensation

I. WHAT IS IT? II. TYPES OF INJURIES AND DISEASES COVERED Coverage here is extended and paid for accidental injuries that are caused, in whole or in part, by the employee's work. This would also include injuries brought on by repetitive use of a ...
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Working Hard or Hardly Working?

California is a worker's paradise when it comes to taking time off from work. The Golden State provides for family leave under the California Family Rights Act (CFRA). The CFRA, as well as the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), entitle ...
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Working Out Mitigation: Some recent issues in the form of reasonable notice and the duty to mitigate

In dealing with the dismissal of any employee, both the employee and the employer must negotiate a host of legal minefields. Two central concerns in navigating the end of the employment relationship are the employer’s duty to provide reasonable ...
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Workplace Harassment

This month's topic is . We have observed this is an area where there is confusion by some employers. When speaking of harassment, most employers think of sexual harassment. Yet, sexual harassment is only one type of prohibited harassment. Under ...
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Workplace Injuries

New Hampshire has enacted laws which require virtually every employer to provide workers' compensation benefits to injured employees. Such benefits are usually paid by insurance. If you are injured at work, or if you have contracted an occupational ...
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Workplace Injury Intentional Torts

Like mushrooms, intentional tort lawsuits over workplace injuries survive legislation to eradicate them and crop up in unexpected states with historically strong workers compensation employer immunity. Witness the recent case of Theresa Birklid v ...
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Y2K Benefit Changes Require Employers to Revise Their COBRA Forms and Procedures

For more than a decade employers have wrestled with administration of COBRA healthcare continuation rules. Under COBRA, most private employers must offer employees and dependents who lose health coverage due to certain qualifying events the right to ...
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Y2K Disclosures Can Be Protected from Suit

For many months now businesses have been asking each other "Is your business Y2K compliant?" These inquiries have caused legal counsel concern that a response might create liability should it turn out to be incorrect or misleading. In an effort to ...
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Y2K Theories of Recovery

The following is a list of the primary theories of recovery likely to be asserted in Y2K litigation. We will see additional theories as claims unfold and plaintiffs' counsel attempt to characterize disputes in ways that increase the likelihood of ...
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Year 2000 Act Is Signed into Law

On October 19, 1998, President Clinton signed the "Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act" ("Y2K Disclosure Act" or the "Act"). This legislation will have a direct impact on how businesses and individuals publicly disclose and address ...
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