Sep 13, 2012

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Is the teachers strike legal?
ABC7Chicago.com
Under Illinois' Educational Labor Act, teachers may strike only for certain matters subject to negotiations; wages, hours, other terms and conditions of employment; specifically the law states that teacher performance is not to be the subject of ...
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Is Minimum Wage Fair?
San Francisco Chronicle
A report recently published by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) revealed a growing disparity of jobs available in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. While the unemployment rate has decreased since its 2009 highs, indicating a modicum of ...
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California's rampant farm-labor abuse
Salon
In relative terms, suits like Villalobos are mundane, but they are also ubiquitous, filed with a frequency that suggests the most pervasive and insidious abuse faced by farmworkers is the kind Villalobos encountered: the blatant disregard of labor laws ...
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State pension reform trickles down to local level
Thousand Oaks Acorn
Under the new law, state employees, firefighters, teachers, police officers and other public workers hired after Jan. 1, 2013, will be required to pay at least half of their normal pension costs—which is about 8 percent of their gross salaries— while ...
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Probe finds Sebelius broke federal law
ModernHealthcare.com
According to the OSC's letter to President Barack Obama, Sebelius violated the Hatch Act, a 1939 law that prohibits federal employees from using their official authority or influence to affect the outcome of an election. The full report noted that ...
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HR reward special 7/7: legal update on employee benefits
HRmagazine.co.uk
Employment law is complex at the best of times, but when tax, benefits, fuel efficiency and parental leave come into play, HR departments can find themselves facing fresh hurdles in their bid to give staff a competitive offering. Here is our guide ...
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Missouri lawmakers override Gov. Nixon's birth control bill veto
Kansas City Star
But almost immediately after the vote, a Kansas City firefighter and the Greater Kansas City Coalition of Labor Union Women filed a lawsuit asking a judge to throw the new law out. The Republican-led House and Senate each met the two-thirds majority ...
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Kansas City Star
PERSONNEL FILE: Bailey named in Best Lawyers
West Virginia Record
CHARLESTON -- The law firm of Bailey & Wyant is pleased to announce that Managing Member Charles R. "Chuck" Bailey was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 in the category of Employment Law Management ...
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West Virginia Record
Executive Spotlight: Scott McCoy, Siemens Government Technologies chief ...
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
While we do have commercial, antitrust, employment law, and the whole gamut of issues, a major specialty that most of the team has here is government contracts and the whole legal and contracts team has experience with that, which I realize is not the ...
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Earl Ofari Hutchinson: What Obama and Romney Say about the Missing ...
Eurweb.com
Yet there's been absolutely no talk about civil rights during their war for the White House. That's civil rights that is that specifically focuses on racial and gender employment discrimination, hate crimes, and equal opportunity for minorities. Talk ...
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Eurweb.com
Employers 'treading on eggshells' with stress laws
Workplace Savings & Benefits
Ashurst head of employment law Caroline Carter said that employers had to give employees with stressful lives "appropriate" levels of work. "People can have stress in their life outside of work and that stress can compound pressure at work and result ...
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Workplace Savings & Benefits
Maine amends its UI law on various subjects
CCH
Charging of benefits. The experience rating record of the most recent employer may not be charged with benefits paid to a claimant whose work record with that employer totalled six (previously five) consecutive weeks or less of total or partial employment.
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Manager mistakes: 3 key lessons from the courtroom
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist on September 13, 2012 9:00am in Centerpiece,Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. judge with gavel It's always smarter—and less expensive—to learn about employment law from others' mistakes, rather than your own.
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UPS Worker Assaulted by Epithets, Bottles, and Rocks, Federal Agency Charges
Jobmouse
By the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Global shipping company UPS violated federal law when it allowed supervisors and coworkers to discriminate against and harass an employee for being Arab and ...
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Phillips & Phillips
Law.com
... York Law Journal. by Philip M. Berkowitz | 09/13/2012. In his Employment Law Issues column, Philip M. Berkowitz, a partner at Littler Mendelson, writes: Multinational employers often negotiate, with their key employees, employment agreements and restrict ...
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Five hiring mistakes to avoid
Golf Course Industry Magazine
Golf course superintendents focus on turf, not employment law…and rightfully so. However, superintendents charged with recruiting and managing their own staff must be aware of the risks inherent in the hiring process. Often, that process can be quite ...
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DARRPP: The New Frontier — Random Drug Testing
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
In late 2007, the Alberta Court of Appeal (ABCA), in Alberta (Human Rights and Citizenship Commission) v. Kellogg Brown & Root (Canada) Company, reviewed a human rights case involving a pre-employment test of a recreational marijuana user.
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Cuba Holds International Congress of Law-2012
Prensa Latina
The Congress is to address the Legal terms of self-employment, Social Welfare in Cuba; Family Courts in Cuba and Labor and Commercial Laws and related regulations. Mantecón also announced conferences and a Master Conference at the closing session ...
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Minister responds to criticism over employment review
Newstalk ZB
The Minister of Labour's hitting back at criticism of her progress of reviewing employment laws. Cleaning company Crest Commercial Cleaning's been critical of Kate Wilkinson for not concluding a review of rules that require companies to hire staff from ...
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Newstalk ZB
SCDEW "Tax Cut" Claim Challenged
FITSNews
Specifically, the report finds that "application of (unemployment insurance) law by DEW remains undetermined at this time as DEW has provided no consistent, uniform or verifiable explanation of its actions under the statutes." Gee … that's comforting ...
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FITSNews
Los Angeles' Lessons Shape Animal Law Studies
Sacramento Bee
Bernstein is a member of the California Bar Association, New York Bar, United States Southern District and United States Eastern District Bar Associations and has been an Adjunct Professor teaching employment, labor, evidence and criminal law at La ...
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Stock Option Plans And Arbitration: Is It Possible Under Brazilian Law
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
On the other hand, individual labor rights are those directly provided by law and, in principle, not subject to arbitration, in view of the protective and mandatory nature applied, which prevents them from qualifying as "freely disposable patrimonial ...
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Keeping Workers Healthy: Managing Injuries and Fitness for Duty
EHS Today
A panel of safety leaders and employment law attorneys at the 2012 America's Safest Companies (ASC) Conference in Chicago discussed strategies to manage employee injuries, including building relationships with occupational medical providers and ...
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EHS Today
Will not supporting gay marriage get you sacked?
Left Foot Forward
This is presumably a reference to the Court of Appeal's decision in Ladele v London Borough of Islington (reported in IDS Employment Law Brief 893). In that case, the Court of Appeal held that L, a Christian registrar, was not discriminated against on ...
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Left Foot Forward
Social Media Use in the Workplace
HispanicBusiness.com
"By the time the law figures out email, nobody's using email anymore," said Renee Mattei Myers, a labor and employment attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in Harrisburg. On Tuesday, Myers discussed the issue of using social media in the ...
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HispanicBusiness.com
Senator Tom Harkin Calls On Obama To Sign Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Huffington Post
"I'm not going to give up on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act," he said. "It's a civil rights issue. I know we can't get it this year because of Republican opposition, but I'll be there next year. We'll have Barack Obama as president. I believe we ...
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ATF creating 'legal' injustice for FFL fighting revocation
Examiner.com
Per a Courthouse News Service report, "Brink's says it owns more than 14,000 guns, which are used by its 9,000 employees in 220 branches across the country." "Violations found during inspections in 2000 and 2002 did not result in administrative action ...
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Examiner.com
Can I set up my business while still employed?
Financial Times
If you do decide to go it alone, I would strongly recommend that you seek advice from an experienced employment law professional to ensure your old job is concluded properly and that your new business gets off to the best possible start. Good luck!
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Cuts to Sussex CAB 'will hit neediest worst'
This Is Sussex
"At the moment we offer specialist advice on a range of subjects including welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and family law. "There is a huge need for that in and around Crawley. And that need isn't going anywhere, even though next spring we ...
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This Is Sussex
McGUIGAN: America's most important ballot question you've never heard of (yet)
Montana Watchdog
"Rights" listed in the proposal reference nearly unlimited protections to form and keep labor unions in the public sector, with profound implications also for the private sector — and to compel unwilling actors to join unions as a condition of employment.
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Montana Watchdog
Fall employment fair: Colorado Mesa University
KKCO-TV
Fall employment fair: Colorado Mesa University. Law enforcement, armed forces, and target, were just some of the many employers. Every student was looking for something to fit their needs. "Something that I could find that I would like to do for at ...
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Call for new laws for state intervention
BDlive
Mr Phillips warned that the slowdown in the rate of growth in gross domestic product (GDP) made it unlikely that the target of achieving a 45% rate of employment by 2014 would be met. He was concerned that broad unemployment in rural areas had risen ...
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Blogs9 new results for Employment Law
 
New York Public Personnel Law: Not providing an employee ...
By noreply@blogger.com (The Public Employment Law Press)
The Public Employment Law Press: This Lawblog is prepared by NYPPL Consultants. NYPPL Consultants assist public employers, public employee organizations and attorneys in matters involving New York State public personnel law.
New York Public Personnel Law
Parties to Calhoun Contract Planned for a Retirement | Connecticut ...
By Daniel Schwartz
Connecticut Employment Law Blog Insight on Labor & Employment Developments for Connecticut Businesses. Home · About · Services · Contact · Published by Daniel A. Schwartz of Pulman & Comley, LLC ...
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Our Employee Is Going to Hurt Himself Performing That Job With ...
By Foley & Lardner LLP
Yet while employers and government agencies such as OSHA focus on safety, employees — and sometimes even their doctors — incredibly seem to take a cavalier approach in the face of seemingly obvious safety risks. In light of this, what ...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
New edition – The developing labor law
By sallen
New edition – The developing labor law · Employment and Labor Law Add comments. The developing labor law : the board, the courts, and the National Labor Relations Act / editor-in-chief, John E. Higgins, Jr. Arlington, VA : Bloomberg BNA, ...
Social Law Library - Collection Weblog
Part-time Firefighters in Brooklyn Park Cancel Election to Unionize ...
By Tiffany Schmidt
In June, I blogged about the Bureau of Mediation Services (BMS) decision granting part-time professional firefighters in the City of Brooklyn Park the.
Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
'At #WSSocialMedia & Law Event. Panel Includes Lawyer Who ...
By Cat Pond
Cooper also considered the developing employment law in relation to social media, explaining – in what came as a shock to me and other attendees – that the intended audience of a social media post often has no bearing on whether the ...
Legal Cheek
The 5 little words that will cause your company a huge headache
By Jon Hyman
proactive employment law information for businesses. ... A very disgruntled, and justifiably fired, ex-employee went to see a plaintiff's employment lawyer about filing a wrongful discharge lawsuit. The lawyer correctly told him that that he had ...
Ohio Employer's Law Blog
USERRA: Rehiring veterans is simple, but it can be dangerous for ...
By Zach Oubre
Any additional prerequisites to reinstatement that an employer tries to apply are unlawful—and you must reinstate the veteran to his former position. USERRA is probably the strictest employment law out there—mainly because you have no ...
EmployerLINC
PhD teaching quid pro quo without the quid (or goes)
I suspect the problem for my department is that if they were to formally draw up a contract in which I effectively work in exchange for money, then I would have employment rights. Disclaimer: All user contributions posted on this site are those of ...
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Web4 new results for Employment Law
 
Taxable employmentlaw settlements - Overlawyered
Taxable employment-law settlements. by Walter Olson on September 12, 2012. Yes, you do have to submit to tax withholding on that back and front pay award, ...
overlawyered.com/2012/.../taxable-employment-law-settlemen...
: Equal Employment Opportunity : Employment Law Monitor
Employment Law Monitor : Employment Lawyer & Attorney : Cole Schotz Meisel Forman & Leonard Law Firm : NJ, Mid-Atlantic Wage & Hour, Wrongful ...
www.employmentlawmonitor.com/.../equal-employment-oppo...
California Increases Protection of Religious Expression in the ...
Effective January 1, 2013, California employers will be required to accommodate their employees' religious dress and grooming practices. Governor Brow.
calemploymentlawupdate.proskauer.com/.../california-increase...
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