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EMPLOYMENT LAW

Employment law focuses on the myriad legal issues that arise in the workplace setting -- discrimination, harassment, whistle-blowing, disabilities, overtime, layoffs and firing, non-compete agreements, and more. The intended audience is employees and managers alike, lawyers, and human resources professionals.


Employment Law is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Michael Orey. This topic contains 1,087 news and 1,528 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Employment Law. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Employment Law from like-minded professionals.

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Buddhist insight for preventing sexual harassment at workmore

I am interested in how Buddhism informs employment law, so I read with relish "Being Buddha At Work: 108 Ancient...

Online Resource: Restatement of Employment Lawmore

Human-resource professionals often ask me about good online resources for their employment-law questions.

EEOC Issues Revised Guidance on the Application of the ADAAA to Vetera...more

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued revised guidance documents for employers and disabled...

Bad Behavior: If Reporting It Is Your Job, You May Not Be a Whistleblo...more

While cleaning out my briefcase this morning I ran across a printout of White v. Starbucks, an unpublished New Jersey...

Tighten Your Saddlesmore

Litigation Value: Cathy showing Jim the “Talla-Nasty” = yet more fodder for Jim’s sexual harassment lawsuit; five dots...

Duty to Accommodate Disabilities Takes New Turn in Canadamore

By Donna Gallant Employers are regularly called upon to modify the workplace or job duties in order to accommodate...

Nervous (About) Nelliemore

Litigation Value:  $100,000 – perhaps more if Todd Packer sleeps his way to a VP position. All sorts of sexual...

Everyone Knows to Beware the Ides of Marchmore

But the Ides of February?  Who knew that such a thing even exists?  Apparently it does, as variously explained here and...

Houston Judge: "[F]iring someone because of lactation or breast-p...more

 A federal judge in Houston has the employment law community up in arms over his ruling that “firing someone because of...

Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham - updatemore

Christopher v. SmithKline Beecham Corp. (11-204)    Issue: Whether pharmaceutical sales representatives were exempt...

Mo’ Money! Statutory Termination Can Lead to Common Law Damagesmore

By Marisa Victor and Sean McGurran Following a recent decision by Ontario’s highest court, employers across Canada may...

Truck Drivers and the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Actmore

Recently, Andrew L. Levy, Esq., a Member in McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC's Labor and Employment Law Practice Group...

Now Departing Through the Main Lobby . . .more

Today's Wall Street Journal has a fun article on e-mail blasts that employees send to their colleagues on their way out...

Is Rounding of Employee Time Entries Legal in California?--California ...more

By Mary Walsh In a matter of significance for California employers, in See’s Candy Shops, Inc. v. Superior Court of San...

NLRB General Counsel's Office's Second Social Media Report Still Leave...more

On Wednesday, the NLRB General Counsel's Office issued its second report on social media cases that have been brought...

It Is Alive . . . Contingency Fee Enhancements Are Still the Law in NJmore

Defense counsel in employment cases --- in any fee-shifting case, actually --- are going to be crying in their beer...

Canadians Can Now Sue for Invasion of Privacy, But It’s Not Worth Muchmore

By Brian P. Smeenk Does Canadian law recognize a right to sue somebody for invasion of privacy? In a landmark ruling in...

A “Get-Together”more

Litigation Value:  Call it what you will — a get-together, party, or bacchanalia. By any name, tonight’s gathering at...

Employer’s Right to Reduce Pension Benefitsmore

By Lyne Duhaime In most Canadian jurisdictions, employers are limited in retroactively reducing pension benefits.

NLRB: Certain mandatory arbitration agreements violate federal labor l...more

D. R. Horton, Inc. and Michael Cuda. Case 12–CA–25764 (01/03/2012) The NLRB has ruled that it is a violation of...

Sabotage!more

Litigation value: Nothing in this episode, but Dwight is perilously close to civil and criminal liability for his...

U.S. Department of Labor Releases Fact Sheet on Retaliation under FLSAmore

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has issued three new fact sheets on unlawful retaliation.

President making three recess appointments to NLRBmore

President Obama today announced his intent to recess appoint three individuals to serve as Members of the National...

2012 Employment Law Predictionsmore

Employment Lawyer Daniel Scwhartz has a piece out this week in the Connecticut Law Tribune titled "What Does Magic...

New Year’s Resolutions for Canadian Employersmore

By Brian P. Smeenk As we all contemplate our personal goals for next year (have you, too, promised yourself to work out...

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