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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Year 2000 Issues for Employers
Year 2000 problems for employers, particularly large employers that maintain substantially different classifications of workers, will be focused on the continued accurate computation of payroll, benefits, contributions and seniority. An employer ...
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Year 2000 Law Bulletin: A New Interpretive Release by the SEC Regarding Disclosure of Y2K Issues by Public Companies
In the SEC.s July 29, 1998 Interpretive Release ("July 1998 Release") regarding Year 2000 disclosure obligations of public companies, the SEC explained that it expected virtually all companies to address these issues in the MD&A sections of 10-Q and ...
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Year 2000 Update: Good Samaritan Law Passed!
On October 19, 1998 President Clinton signed the "Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act" into law. This Act, also called the Year 2000 "Good Samaritan" law, encourages the continued dissemination of Year 2000 ("Y2K") readiness ...
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YJB&R Fights Intimidation of Injured Railroad Workers
In recent years there has been a surge of intimidation and harassment by railroads against their injured employees. Sometimes the tactics are direct and obvious: A supervisor threatens a worker with a formal investigation if the employee wants to ...
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You’ve Heard About the Supreme Court’s Decisions on Sexual Harassment. Now What?
However, the Court did hold out a ray of hope to employers. It created an "affirmative defense" for companies if the employer can show that it took reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment and to promptly correct it, and where an employee ...
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