Sep 4, 2012

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Recession Boosts Employment Law Demand While Other Practice Areas Decline
ABA Journal
A survey of the nation's largest law firms by the Hildebrandt Institute's Peer Monitor Index reveals the trend, the Washington Post reports. Corporate demand for labor and employment work rose nearly 5 percent during the year's second quarter 2012 ...
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Boston Globe
An $18 million renovation of the Boston Marriott Copley Place that paid illegally low wages to men from a Philadelphia church was rife with violations of tax and labor laws, according to a state investigation that found improper activity by 15 ...
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Christians take 'beliefs' fight to European Court of Human Rights
BBC News
He said: "These four linked cases at their core raise questions about the rights, and the limits to the rights, of employees to force their employers to alter employment conditions, so as to accommodate the employees' religious practices. Continue ...
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BBC News
Samsung says its manufacturer doesn't use child labor
CNET (blog)
"We have a zero tolerance policy on child labor violations and are therefore conducting field audits to ensure all our facilities in China, whether supplier facilities or fully-owned facilities, are compliant with applicable labor laws and Samsung's ...
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Democrats and US Labor Delusional About Latin America
CounterPunch
Also omitted from the platform is any discussion of the horrendous human rights situation in post-coup Honduras where journalists, human rights advocates and labor leaders have been threatened, harassed and even killed at alarming rates. As Reporters ...
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Hard won worker rights celebrated at Labor Day parade
Buffalo News
Despite 85-degree heat, Walter Lukaszewicz, 79, of Hamburg, stood in the sun on Abbott Road Monday to show his support for the hundreds of people who marched in today's Labor Day Parade in South Buffalo. "Labor Day is all about workers, the future, ...
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Buffalo News
Louisiana amends its UI law on various subjects
CCH
Unemployment. Any individual who bears the relationship of spouse, mother or mother-in-law, father or father-in-law, son or stepson or son-in-law, daughter or stepdaughter or daughter-in-law, brother or brother-in-law, or sister or sister-in-law, to a ...
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HHS takes steps toward protecting transgender people under health-care law
Washington Post
The HHS letter, issued by the department's Office of Civil Rights, adds to recent court decisions and a ruling by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April that the Civil Rights Act's prohibition against sex discrimination applies to ...
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Talking Politics At Work Can Get You Fired
Forbes
The two disagreed so vehemently, they nearly came to blows. Alarmed about the disruption, the employer called Steven Hurd, a partner at the New York law firm Proskauer in its labor and employment law department. Could the company fire the employees, ...
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Forbes
Requirements for Hiring Highly Qualified Employees in Russia
The Moscow Times (blog)
The law defines "highly qualified specialists" as foreign nationals whose annual income paid in accordance with the labor / civil law agreement signed with a Russian employer exceeds 2 million rubles gross (which is approximately $65,000 and 53,000 ...
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The Moscow Times (blog)
St. Louis city, state will take residency law dispute to the Supreme Court
St. Louis Public Radio
The state of Missouri and the city of St. Louis will go in front of the state Supreme Court on Thursday to argue over who can decide where city employees live. The 2010 law allows firefighters who work for a department in an unaccredited school ...
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St. Louis Public Radio
Unfair dismissal and your rights
Onrec
This could have a damning effect on the nation's workforce and millions could be pushed into unemployment. Employment law experts Your Employment Matters, explains how you could be unfairly dismissed in this situation and what rights you have.
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China's Union. What Union?
China Law Blog (blog)
The China Business Leadership Blog has a post up today on the All Federation of China Trade Unions (AFCTU), China's Labor Union. The post is entitled, "Labor Day Thought," and the gist of it is that China's sole legal labor union, the AFCTU, is just ...
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China Law Blog (blog)
Organized labor: Slipping into darkness?
allvoices
According to Mix, organized labor unions as they are currently defined by federal law have too much authority in the states in which they are allowed to operate. Compulsory unionism, the ability of unions to force non-members to join a labor ...
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Employment minister names and shames first minimum wage violator
Recruiter
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has for the first time named a company violating national minimum wage law under a new scheme in place since the start of 2011. Leicester hair and beauty salon owner Rita Patel, trading as Treena ...
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CODEXIS, INC. : Shell Grants Codexis Rights to Commercialize Cellulase ...
4-traders
This action will reduce Codexis' workforce by approximately 133 employees effective October 30, 2012. All affected employees will receive advance notice of their employment loss in accordance with applicable law. "It is difficult to make business ...
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Samsung to make on-site inspections on all Chinese suppliers
China Daily
SEOUL -- South Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics said Tuesday that it will make on-site inspections on all 105 suppliers in China by the end of September as part of efforts to ensure whether the suppliers are compliant with applicable labor laws ...
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Lessons from the SHRM 2012 conference
Business Management Daily
Here are some nuggets of employment law advice from the speakers at this summer's Society for Human Resource Management annual conference in Atlanta. Facebook: "The risk of looking at (an applicant's) Facebook page is much less after you interview ...
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Entrepreneurs are the New Labor: Part I
Forbes
... people: entrepreneurs are the new labor. Or to put it in a more useful way, the balance of power between investors and entrepreneurs that marks the early, frontier days of a major technology wave (Moore's Law and the Internet in this case) has ...
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Retirement changes signed into law today for Michigan's teachers
Michigan Radio
Governor Rick Snyder will sign legislation into law Tuesday that will make some changes to how teachers and other school employees save for their retirement. School employees will have to pay more for their benefits, and those hired after today will no ...
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This Is A Contribution To The European Employment Law Update - August 2012.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Austria: This Is A Contribution To The European Employment Law Update - August 2012. 04 September 2012. Article by Helene Amsinck, Marianne Granhøj, Jens Lund Mosbek and Tina Brøgger Sørensen. AUSTRIA WILL SHORTLY IMPLEMENT EU ...
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Audit findings raise parish questions; president-council may be headed to ...
EuniceToday.com
Dual Employment of the Director of Administration: Mr. Bellard is dually employed by the Parish and the City of Opelousas Fire Department which is allowable under state law as long as both are not full-time positions. Since the Parish time sheets for Mr.
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New York Legislature Expands Permissible Wage Deductions
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Section 193 of the Labor Law currently prohibits deductions from an employee's wages unless they are required by law or are expressly authorized in writing by the employee and are for the benefit of the employee. Such authorized deductions are ...
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Labor Day In A Lagging Economy: Obama, Romney And Who's Better Off ...
Neon Tommy
A study by the National Employment Law Project showed low-wage employment was gaining at a faster rate than middle class jobs with the biggest gains in the retail and food service industries. The economy has its bright spots, however. Brian Hamilton ...
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Neon Tommy
Dublin City Council wants action on migrant worker loophole
Irish Examiner
The High Court ruled that a Pakistani worker who was awarded thousands of euro in compensation for breaches of employment law, was not entitled to the money because his employment contract cannot be recognised. Dublin Councillor Jane Horgan-Jones ...
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Man With 12 DUI Convictions Enters Guilty Plea
WINA AM 1070
... With 12 DUI Convictions Enters Guilty Plea. Law enforcement agencies had additional Labor Day patrols searching for those who drink and drive, and Fredericksburg area prosecutors are glad a man with 12 DUI convictions spent the holiday behind bars.
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WINA AM 1070
Hidden Pitfalls in Hiring Highly Qualified Foreign Specialists
The Moscow Times
To this end, it should be noted that a specialist's employment in Russia is governed not only by the law, but also by the Russian Federation's Labor Code (Federal Law Nо. 197-FZ, dated 30.12.2001, as amended) (the "Labor Code"). The rules established ...
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The Moscow Times
The Political Education of Elizabeth Warren
The American Prospect
"The other half of it—I never checked off a box on a college application, law-school application, employment application, so I just never expected this to be an issue. Didn't understand why it would be." That attitude drove Warren's early response ...
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Blogs12 new results for Employment Law
 
Is your business covered by federal employment law?
By Shawn Roberts
Is your business covered by federal employment law? In Friday's post, I covered what types of conduct are regulated or prohibited by Federal Employment Law. The focus today is a critical one: Who is covered by Federal Employment Law?
Shawn J. Roberts
Labor Day 2012: Surrogates | Law and the Multiverse
By Ryan Davidson
It discusses three issues related to surrogates: gender and race relations, law enforcement and crime, and individual and public health. There's probably enough for a solid post on each of those issues, but this being Labor Day, we're going to ...
Law and the Multiverse
Daniel Barnett's Employment Law Archive: Employment status ...
By Daniel Barnett
This archive contains Daniel Barnett's employment law email bulletins which are posted when an email bulletin is sent out. To receive these bulletins by email you can subscribe for free. Over 28,000 people, including solicitors, barristers, HR ...
Daniel Barnett's Employment Law Archive
Employment law manual update: new chapter on information and ...
The XpertHR employment law manual has been enhanced by the addition of a new chapter on information and consultation. All existing reference manual content.
XpertHR | Home Page News
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Geography Matters In Law ...
By Glenn Reynolds
September 4, 2012. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: Geography Matters In Law School Employment. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:00 am. Tweet · RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos ...
Instapundit
Christians take 'beliefs' fight to European Court of Human Rights
By sferguson
All four lost separate employment tribunals relating to their beliefs. Secular critics have said a ruling in favour of the group could "seriously undermine" UK equality law. A ruling is not expected from the European court for several weeks.
resignation - Hiring, Firing, and Discrimination - FindLaw Answers
Jump to content. FindLaw | Find a Lawyer. Find Answers. Learn About the Law · Find a Lawyer · FindLaw Answers · Legal Forms · News · Blogs · FindLaw Answers; » Employment; » Hiring, Firing, and Discrimination ...
Employment Law
Why low-wage jobs boom is good news for California | CalWatchDog
By CalWatchdog
Not according to the union-backed National Employment Law Project's new study, "Low Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality." After reading NELP's study, one might wrongly conclude it is better to be unemployed than working. But the ...
CalWatchDog
A Secunda 2-Fer - Law Professor Blogs Network - Typepad
By laborprof lpb
Decisionmaking hubris with cognitive origins is present today in many labor and employment law cases in the United States. In two previous law review articles, I explored whether anthropological and psychological explanations of judicial ...
Workplace Prof Blog
Encyclopaedia on Family and The Law – Welcome, new Editors ...
By Natasha
She worked at the BBC from 1987 to 1996 and after a brief sojourn at the Sun and News of the World she worked at the College of Law, specialising in litigation, criminal law and employment law. From there, Gillian went to work at Times ...
Researching Reform
Weekly Employment Tribunal News Update - 27 August 2012 ...
Mrs Hall seeks compensation for loss of career and pension rights. The Government released a briefing note on the introduction of fees in the employment tribunal. See the blog Government's Employment Tribunal Reform Changes Fees and ...
Ecademy: user blogs
5 Ways to Avoid Ex-Employee Lawsuits - Free Enterprise
By Andrew Chow, JD
defamation; discrimination; employee rights; employment law; health insurance; hiring; intellectual property; IRS; marketing; nonprofit corporation; SBA; SBA loans; sexual harassment; small business; Small Business Administration; small ...
FindLaw News - Top Stories

Web5 new results for Employment Law
 
Low-wage jobs explosion - Aug. 31, 2012
Some 58% of the jobs created during the recovery have been low-wage positions , according to a new report by the National Employment Law Project. Only 22% ...
money.cnn.com/2012/08/31/news/economy/.../index.html?...
Is the NLRB In Need of a Dictionary? - Delaware Employment Law ...
A recent decision by the NLRB has many employers (and their lawyers) up in arms. It has left me wondering whether maybe the Board needs a dictionary.
www.delawareemploymentlawblog.com/.../is-the-nlrb-in-need...
Employment Law and Contracts: Which lawyer should I talk to if I ...
I am about to accept a job offer from a bay area company and heard that it's important that I talk to a lawyer if I care about my IP. I have several side projects I ...
www.quora.com/.../Which-lawyer-should-I-talk-to-if-I-want-t...
Peninsula Business Services - Blog
Peninsula Business Services is the UK's largest employment law and health & safety consultancy. Check out our latest HR offering - hronline For further ...
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Practising Law Institute ~ California Employment Law Update 2012 ...
With over 30 years of uncompromising commitment to high quality legal work, Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo is one of California's leading law firms.
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