Sep 17, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

News26 new results for Employment Law
 
Texas Employment Law Attorney Reminds Healthcare Groups to Revisit ...
Justice News Flash
Keith Clouse is a Texas employment law attorney who regularly assists healthcare groups with employment-related matters. He believes these groups should revisit employment-related matters at least yearly for several reasons: • Noncompete law changes ...
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Cumbrian business leader urges swift changes to employment laws
NW Evening Mail
A business leader has urged the Government to move quickly and bring employment law changes into power. Rob Johnston photo. Rob Johnston. Cumbria Chamber of Commerce chief executive Rob Johnston believes employers will be encouraged by ...
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NW Evening Mail
Murphy's Law
urbanmilwaukee
Scott Walker first proposed the law to restrict collective bargaining for public employees, most Democratic and Republicans were stunned by the broad sweep of the law. It was a revolutionary document. Given this, you'd think the Walker administration ...
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Only one business in 10 thinks employment law is fit for purpose
PersonnelToday.com
Only days after the Government announced its latest raft of employment law reforms, the YouGov research, commissioned by recruitment company Brook Street, revealed that only 9% of respondents thought that existing legislation is fit for purpose ...
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Taking the blame for workplace strife
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
Jeffrey R. Smith is the editor of Canadian Employment Law Today, a publication that looks at workplace law from a business perspective. He can be reached at jeffrey.r.smith@thomsonreuters.com or visit www.employmentlawtoday.com for more information.
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DNCC calls for swift employment law reforms
Insider Media
The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce (DNCC) has called on the government to take "swift action" and implement its employment law reforms sooner rather than later. Business secretary Vince Cable confirmed on Friday (14 September ...
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Letter: Workers' Rights Have Suffered
Twin Falls Times-News
Although my previous employer petitioned not to grant me unemployment, the state of Idaho saw that I was discharged unfairly, and I am able to collect for a time. I would have loved the chance to sue for my old position; however, due to the right-to ...
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Federal law forces textile layoffs in favor of prison labor
DigitalJournal.com
Fayette - American Power Source, an American Apparel subsidiary, makes military clothing in Fayette, Ala., but when its contract is up, Federal Prison Industries (FPI) also known as UNICOR, will get the work, replacing private industry workers with ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Legal and political battle over collective bargaining continues
WXOW.com
Esenberg is the president and general council for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. Esenberg represented some public employees who did not want to be forced to join a union. He says the judge's ruling against Act 10 will be appealed by the ...
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Let the Self Employed Deduct Health Insurance Premiums from Payroll Taxes
Small Business Trends
Suppose Congress passed a law exempting Americans from a tax on health insurance premiums as long as they worked for someone else, but required them to pay $1,800 if they were self-employed. Would you think it was fair? Probably not, but that's in ...
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Small Business Trends
Government targets "compensation culture" by reducing caps on unfair dismissal ...
Out-Law.com
The Government's latest announcements on employment law reform, including a major reduction in the level of compensation that can be awarded if a worker is successful in bringing a claim for unfair dismissal, target the "compensation culture" that the ...
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'Schools should decide on ethos v rights'
Irish Examiner
Changes were proposed this year to employment law that allow schools, hospitals, and other religious-owned employers discriminate on certain grounds to protect their ethos. Unions representing staff the organisations had been lobbying for such changes.
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Retiree rehire policy rankles some Wyoming public employees
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Only three retirement groups are eligible for rehire after retirement — the big public plan that includes state government employees and the plans for law enforcement officers and Wyoming Air National Guard firefighters. Kuchera is a rehired retiree ...
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Canada's laws fuel migrant worker exploitation: Report
Canadian HR Reporter
Federal immigration and provincial employment law and policy are typically developed separately but should be integrated, she said. "At each stage in the labour migration cycle, migrant workers face insecurity that is either created through law or ...
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A case worth watching
VEGAS INC
One such person is Mark Ricciardi, regional managing partner of Fisher & Phillips, which represents employers in labor and employment law cases. I recently asked him about an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation that could have ...
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Legal expert says union ruling unlikely to stand
Wisconsin Law Journal
(AP) – A labor law expert says he thinks a judge's ruling overturning Wisconsin's law repealing most collective bargaining for local government and school district employees will be overturned on appeal. Marquette University labor law professor Paul ...
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Importance of strong HR practices; Employment contracts must be well-drafted ...
Dentistry IQ
ANSWER: It is important for your company to adopt strong HR practices and contractual language stressing the importance of the company's confidential information in all its employment contracts. Often, companies' HR practices do not respond to ...
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Wisconsin Judge Rules in Favor of Unions
The Root
In the shadow of the Chicago Teachers Union strike, a new decision made by a Wisconsin judge holds national resonance. In March 2011, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spearheaded the passage of a law that in effect worked to break labor unions in his state.
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There's some truth in tax, spending attacks on Inslee
TheNewsTribune.com
While their somewhat larger peers will face new costs, the smallest businesses could save money under the law, because of tax credits to help businesses with up to 25 employees afford insurance premiums. Those are estimated to cost an average of $4 ...
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Court clerks can now be called to bar
Law Times
... Association of Law Officers of the Crown (ALOC) that the employer, the Ontario government, violated the collective agreement by imposing contract terms that prevented clerks from being called to the bar as a term and condition of continued employment.
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Attorney General to Seek Stay in Union Case Soon
KSTP.com
Wisconsin's Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen plans to act quickly in seeking a stay in a court decision that overturns the law repealing most collective bargaining for local government and school district employees. Van Hollen's spokeswoman ...
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An employee, even if you don't think they are
Southland Times
For those of us at the coal face of employment law it is not that unusual to see people act badly - this case is interesting because of the level of bad behaviour. The case involved Mr Moodie. Now usually I don't name the people in these decisions but ...
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Southland Times
Proceedings | Highlights from the Law Blog
Wall Street Journal
The 1,000-lawyer firm is the latest big law firm to consolidate its support and nonlegal functions to locations where rents are cheaper and labor costs are lower. "We think this will give us a significant competitive advantage over firms that haven't ...
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Maternity employment rules to be amended
MaltaToday
When the Protection of Maternity at Work Places Regulations (L.N 92 of 2000) were published, there were no specific provisions in Maltese law that dealt with the conditions of employment of pregnant workers or workers who had recently given birth, and ...
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Lyons Davidson tops the list for Legal Ombudsman intervention
Post Online
Consumers had complained about the law firm's failure to advise, failure to progress and failure to follow instruction in litigation, employment law and consumer law. In five cases, further action was required to "put the situation right". In these ...
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Post Online
Dan Walters: Bankruptcy ruling could alter California pension law
Modesto Bee
Under bankruptcy protection, Stockton wants those who hold millions of dollars in city-issued bonds – or their insurers – to take a haircut, but it doesn't reduce the $29 million it pays each year to the California Public Employees' Retirement System.
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Modesto Bee

Blogs11 new results for Employment Law
 
Ex-EEOC employee met requirements to pursue disability claim ...
By Washington Employment Law Letter
Just as private-sector workers are required to file an administrative charge of discrimination before filing a lawsuit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, federal employees also have prefiling requirements. In a disability discrimination ...
Diversity Insight
NLRB continues to attack facially neutral employment policies
By Jon Hyman
To place this issue within a legal context (and for the uninitiated), the National Labor Relations Act grants all private-sector employees (union and non-union) the absolute right to engage in protected concerted activity, which includes, among ...
Ohio Employer's Law Blog
[IWS] CRS: POST-EMPLOYMENT, "REVOLVING DOOR," LAWS ...
By SBasefsky
Under federal conflict of interest law, at 18 U.S.C. § 207, federal employees in the executive. branch of government are restricted in performing certain post-employment "representational". activities for private parties, including (1) a lifetime ban ...
IWS Documented News DAILY POSTINGS
Law You Can Use: Fair Labor Standards Act Sets Federal Minimum ...
By News-Herald Blogs
A: The FLSA covers most employees. It applies to any business that grosses at least $500,000 in annual gross volume of sales or business and to any smaller business whose employees are engaged in, or whose duties are directly essential ...
Law You Can Use
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES: Employers more proactive about ...
By Charlie Plumb
Charlie Plumb is a labor and employment attorney with the McAfee & Taft law firm and serves as leader of the firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group. He represents management in all phases of employment law and labor relations.
EmployerLINC
EEOC Commissioners to Explain Disability Discrimination Law in
By AAAA
The series of training seminars is aimed at employment law practitioners, human resource and equal employment opportunity/diversity specialists, and managers dealing with issues of reasonable accommodation. Commissioners Chai ...
Affirmative Action Blog Spot
Free Legal Question: Employment Law | California | I have been ...
Employment Law in California : I have been working for haagen dazs for about 5 years and recently quit due to unwilling help from the securities and.
LawGuru Knowledge Base
Why the AFL-CIO Must Address Black Criminalization and (Un ...
By Kenyon Farrow
The AFL-CIO blog posts also mentions how the National Employment Law Project (NELP), one of the groups pushing the EEOC to make these changes, conducted a 2011 report emphasizing the use of technology by companies to exclude ...
Kenyon Farrow | Writer. Speaker....
My former employer can't prevent me from working, right? Dissecting ...
By Jason Shinn
After an individual's employment is terminated and that individual begins working for a competitor or starts his or her own business, a common question asked by both the individual and the former employer is whether a noncompete ...
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
NLRB Nixes Still More Employer Policies in Costco : Employment ...
By Joel S. Barras
Once again attacking personnel policies largely designed to comply with other laws, the National Labor Relations Board invalidated certain personnel p.
Employment Law Watch
The Urban Agriculture Law Project — City Farmer News
By Michael Levenston
Nonprofit formation and governance: bylaws, articles of incorporation, obtaining 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. Land use and zoning legal advice. Lease agreements. Employment law advice. Workshops or talks on legal issues. See the Urban ...
City Farmer News

Web8 new results for Employment Law
 
BakerHostetler | News / Resources | International Employment Law ...
International Employment Law: A 2012 Perspective LIVE Webcast. 10/29/2012. Employment Law Partner Matthew W. Hoyt will be among the speakers for ...
www.bakerlaw.com/.../international-employment-law-a-2012-...
In the News - Employment Laws Have Seen Dynamic Changes
Employment Laws Have Seen Dynamic Changes 9/12/2012. Stoel Rives Labor and Employment attorney Victor Kisch was recently interviewed by Briefly Legal ...
www.stoel.com/shownews.aspx?Show=9790
Working from Home – Not a Reasonable Accommodation ...
By Mark Wiletsky If an employee claims that she needs to work from home due to a medical condition, do you have to grant such a request under the Americans ...
www.coloradoemploymentlawblog.com/.../working-from-ho...
Lynberg and Watkins Employment Law Blog: United States ...
Main Navigation. Lynberg and Watkins Employment Law Blog: United States Supreme Court Overrules Department of Labor's Interpretation of Rules Regarding ...
lwemploymentlaw.com/.../united-states-supreme-court-overrul...
Labor and Employment Law Alert - Seventh ... - Barnes & Thornburg
Download a PDF of the Barnes & Thornburg LLP Labor and Employment Law Alert, "Seventh Circuit Reverses Course on Reassignment Accommodation" ...
www.btlaw.com/alert-seventh-circuit-reverses-course-on-reassi...
Labor & Employment Law - initial counsel
I'm seeking some initial counsel on whether or not I have any legal basis for compensation claims against my employer. I live and work in Virginia. The employer ...
washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/lgl/3255961683.html
Lawsuit alleges man was subjected to wrongful workplace harassment
It is very important for employers to take all proper steps to protect their employees from wrongful workplace harassmen.
www.wisconsinemploymentlawblog.com/.../lawsuit-alleges-ma...
Mealey's Employment Law Bulletin: $3.3 Million Dollar Judgement ...
Mealey's Employment Law Bulletin: $3.3 Million Dollar Judgement Entered Against Couple Accused of Enslaving, Raping Housekeeper. ALEXANDRIA, Va.
www.lexisnexis.com/.../mealey-s-employment-law-bulletin-3-...


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