Sep 20, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

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Seminar On Bermuda Employment Law
Bernews
Fozeia Rana-Fahy and Jennifer Haworth of MJM Limited, yesterday [Sept 19] presented a talk on 'Bermuda Employment Law: Restrictive Covenants in the Insurance Industry,' to members of the Association of Bermuda International Companies. The one-hour ...
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Speaking tour teaches labor law
China Daily
A national legal speaking tour co-organized by the Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Services Co Ltd, or FESCO for short, and Occupation magazine, affiliated with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of ...
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China Daily
Employment Law Solicitor Kiran Daurka welcomes likely changes to mental ...
Russell Jones & Walker
Employment Law Solicitor Kiran Daurka welcomes likely changes to mental health law. Disability Discrimination. 20 September 2012. Last Friday (14 September) the government backed the Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill, a private member's bill, which ...
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Russell Jones & Walker
Employment law changes proposed
Clickdocs
The Government is already delivering significant reforms of employment law, including extending the period for eligibility for unfair dismissal from one to two years, encouraging more effective ways to resolve disputes and thereby reduce the number of ...
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'Pay before you pump' law considered in Ontario
CTV News
"Jayesh's Law" will seek to make prepayment a requirement across the province as well as slap fines on gas stations that force employees to pay for stolen gas. Prepayment at gas stations became mandatory in British Columbia after a man was dragged to ...
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Legal 500 guide: Employment
Business Weekly
Employment law has been a fertile area for legal practices in East Anglia for several years. As more and more companies locally expand into overseas markets and hire staff internationally, so the need for sound cross-border employment law advice ...
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Ask The Law
gulfnews.com
My question here is, is the company entitled by law to ask me to sign such a clause after signing an employment contract without such a clause? Is this clause binding upon me? I am only 19 years old, what is the legal age for work under the Labour Law?
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Employees who employ dirty tricks
gulfnews.com
Khalid A. Wahab, Advocate at Al Midfa & Associates, said one of the most common types of cases that the law firm faces are employees asking for more labour entitlements or end-of-service benefits. "One of the common cases we face is where the employee ...
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gulfnews.com
NLRB Decision Supports USW's Claim that North American Salt Blatantly Breaks ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
19, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Sept. 12, 2012 decision that affirmed previous findings that Carey Salt (also known as North American Salt) violated federal labor law numerous times in its ...
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Hondurans challenge gov't land seizures, anti-worker law
People's World
Then there is the government's "National Program of Hourly Employment" that became law in November 2011. Rationalized as creating jobs but seen ultimately as bolstering Honduras' long-term hospitality to corporate investment, especially from abroad ...
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Maine Senator Bucks Republican Party on Gay Immigration Rights
U.S. News & World Report
Collins has been a long-time advocate for gay rights and has co-sponsored other legislation including the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act, which would give gay federal employees the same health and insurance benefits that heterosexual ...
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What the End of the Chicago Teachers Strike Means for the Rest of the Country
The Atlantic Cities
Firstly, unlike private sector employment law, which is based on federal law, public sector regulations are made at the state level. Different states have different starting points. Hancock says while school strikes were commonplace in Michigan during ...
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The Atlantic Cities
Federal data back up bank firing spree
DesMoinesRegister.com
"This was designed to restore public trust with the banking sector," Boswell said of the tighter bank employment rules. "There have been unintended consequences, which is why the waiver process was put in place. I am open to making changes to the law ...
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Study: Number of 'able-bodied' adults on food stamps doubled after stimulus ...
Fox News
The latest CRS report noted that while the stimulus law lifted the food stamp work requirement until late 2010, the law allowing extended unemployment benefits likewise allowed most states to waive those work requirements in 2011 and 2012. Statistics ...
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President Authorises Troop Employment
AllAfrica.com
... of 2002) employed members of the South African National Defence Force to support the South African Police Service in the prevention and combating of crime as well as the maintenance of law and order in the Marikana Area, North West province and ...
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Tribunal statistics reveal low unfair dismissal payouts
PersonnelToday.com
XpertHR senior employment law editor Stephen Simpson said: "These statistics highlight again that the small number of big payouts that grab the headlines are atypical. They don't support the Government's plan for the unfair dismissal compensation cap ...
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Labor alliance against contractualization, for a meaningful wage hike, formed
Bulatlat
In a press conference in Manila last Friday Sept. 14, leaders of these labor groups vowed to fight together for the rights to security of tenure and a living wage. "We demand a significant wage hike, one that will bring current wage levels closer to ...
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Bulatlat
LNP seeks access to secret report
The Australian
The groups relying on LPITAF funding include community legal centres, the Queensland Law Society, Bar Association, Legal Services Commission and the Public Interest Law Clearing House. "One of my departmental reps said the former Labor government ...
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New York expands list of permissible payroll deductions
CCH
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation amending Labor Law Sec 193, allowing employers to make further payroll deductions authorized in writing by employees. The law will allow for further deductions relating to insurance, pension ...
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Crucial Afghan mining laws up for review within a fortnight
Reuters
The new draft includes directives for enforcement -- for instance, ensuring that reported production matches actual output -- along with regulation for employment, infrastructure and environment protection, according to an expert working on the draft ...
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The September Employment Law Blog Carnival – The Bronx Bombers Edition
JD Supra (press release)
For those who are uninitiated, each month an employment law blog hosts a "carnival" with links to various posts from other blogs with a theme typically attached. Candidly, it's a relic from a bygone era before social media made sharing easy. But a ...
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Lessons from martial law
Inquirer.net
Servicing of the public debt eats up to more than half of our P2 trillion budget, cutting down by half expenditures for food production, schools, health services, infrastructure, economic development and employment generation. Marcos abolished the two ...
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Union takes action against RCS for alleged 'lockout'
Romeo Observer
Michigan law defines a lockout as temporarily withholding work from employees by shutting down operations to pressure the employees or bargaining representative to accept the terms of settlement in a labor dispute. "No doors were locked, no one was ...
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Creek County wildfire disaster relief deadline Sept. 26
kjrh.com
If you believe you may be eligible for assistance, call the OESC Unemployment Insurance Service Center at 1-800-555-1554 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., to begin the claim process. Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Ethics board to inform agencies of nepotism law
Boston Herald
An Ethics Commission spokesman said posting the requirement online in December, touting it in seminars and helping executive offices retool employment applications — with media coverage — should have been enough to let all state officials know their ...
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NLRB invalidates Costco's social media and blanket confidentiality policies
Lexology (registration)
The administrative law judge (the ALJ) found that employees would not reasonably construe this rule as regulating, and thereby inhibiting, Section 7 conduct. The Board overruled the ALJ: Here, the Respondent's rule does not explicitly reference Section ...
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Anti-Cybercrime law, an attack against freedom of expression, other civil rights
Bulatlat
"As many of the employed youth are now working in industries in which they are utilizing computer systems, it is feared that this provision may be exploited by unscrupulous employers to further control and restrict the rights of employees in their ...
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Blogs12 new results for Employment Law
 
Influx of employment lawsuits, regulations a bright spot for law firms ...
By admin
September 20, 2012. Companies' demand for legal services is falling in nearly all areas of the law except labor and employment — the lone area where the fallout of the recession appears to be helping rather than hurting large law firms.
Estate of Denial
Tips for Assisting Newly Married Employees with Name Changes ...
By Daniel Schwartz
Unfortunately, until the legislature and various agencies change the laws regarding name changes to make them less burdensome, employees will have to carry much of the burden. HR personnel can assist by pointing them in the right ...
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
IRS Attempts to Clarify Scope of Employer Health Insurance ...
By Foley & Lardner LLP
The Affordable Care Act requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide full-time employees... ... An employer may wait up to 13 months to retroactively determine the status of variable-hour employees. To fall within this safe harbor, ...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: Enforceable Pennsylvania ...
By Philip Miles
In Pennsylvania, employers generally must provide employees with consideration to make a noncompete contract enforceable. Furthermore, continued employment is generally not enough. The Legal Intelligencer published an interesting ...
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog
The Right to Breastfeed: CO School Case Settled - Employment Law ...
By Deanne Katz, Esq.
Colorado has its own law protecting nursing mothers but it's not the only protection new mothers have. Federal laws prevent employers from discriminating against employees who choose to have children. ... Categories: Employment Law ...
FindLaw Employment Law News Blogs
EEOC Sues Food Retailer for Firing Bipolar Worker - The BLT: The ...
By Jenna Greene
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued food retailer King Soopers Inc. for firing a worker who is bipolar, alleging that the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Employment discrimination suits involving mental illnesses are relatively rare and... ... The National Law Journal. Legal Times and The National Law Journal have merged to bring you legal news from Washington and around the nation.
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
NLRB Invalidates Costco's Social Media Policy - HR & Employment ...
By Andrew Lu
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officially weighed in on corporate social media policies for the first time by invalidating Costco's policy. The NLRB has issued several reports regarding the agency's thoughts on social media ...
In House
Ontario Human Rights Commission's "Policy On Competing Human ...
By Catherine Coulter
A religious employer requires employees to sign a faith-based code of conduct as a term of their employment. These are examples of cases where competing human rights may exist in the workplace. In order to assist organizations working ...
Employment and Labour
Linder Myers holds employment seminar for GP practices ...
By shropshirelive.com
... 2012 0 Comments shropshirelive.com. Shropshire law firm Linder Myers will be hosting an employment seminar on 1st October in Shrewsbury advising GPs on recent changes in case law and the impact this will have on practices. Read the ...
shropshirelive.com
Meet: Rob Wilks, Head of the brand-new RAD Deaf Law Centre ...
By Editor
This means that without legal aid, Deaf people on a low income or in receipt of benefits will find it difficult to enforce their employment rights or challenge the changes to their benefits as they won't have access to legal advice, and if they do find ...
The Limping Chicken
Employment Tribunal case data for year to 31st ... - Employment law
By Ben Jones
We report on the figures released today by the Government on employment tribunal claims, the key takeaways and most interesting trends.
efrb.org.uk
Financial Inclusion for Child Laborers
By Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
The most prolific law introduced by the Government of India against the practice is the Child Labor Act of 1986, which sets the minimum age for employment at 14. However, this law (currently up for reform) has loopholes that are easily ...
Searchlight South Asia

Web6 new results for Employment Law
 
UK – New proposals to ease employment laws and drive labour ...
Business Secretary Vince Cable today announced new steps to give firms more flexibility in managing their workforce and to reduce employment law red tape.
www.staffingindustry.com/.../UK-New-proposals-to-ease-empl...
Employment Law Weekly - 7th Circuit Holds ADA Requires ...
Bernadette M. O'Brien and Dona Lee Skeren of Floyd, Skeren & Kelly, LLP, are editors of Employment Law Weekly. Ms. O'Brien is also author of the popular ...
employmentlawweekly.com/.../937-11th-circuit-holds-ada-incl...
Employment law reforms are licence to treat people badly - and still ...
Anya Palmer: Government plans to cap unfair dismissal compensation will not make it easier to fire employees. It'll just make it cheaper.
www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/.../unfair-dismissal-compensati...
Oregon Announces Increase to Minimum Wage - National ...
75 Maiden Lane, Suite 601, New York, NY 10038 ▫ 212-285-3025 ▫ www.nelp.org . National Employment Law Project. For Immediate Release: September 17, ...
www.nelp.org/.../PR-Oregon-Announces-Minimum-Wage-Inc...
Dykema L&E Lawblog: Kroll v. White Lake: Dykema Labor ...
For over twenty years, the Americans With Disabilities Act has prohibited employers from conducting medical examinations of current employees unless they are ...
www.laboremployment-lawblog.com/Kroll_v_White_Lake
The Employment Law Group® Law Firm Principal ... - WNEM TV 5
WNEM TV 5 The Employment Law Group® Law Firm Principal Nicholas Woodfield Ranked Among Best Lawyers 2013 in the Labor and Employment Law ...
www.wnem.com/.../the-employment-law-group-law-firm-prin...


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