Oct 12, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

News27 new results for Employment Law
 
Congress should restore workers' rights to fight discrimination
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Al Franken, D-Minn., and 40 other lawmakers introduced the Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012, which would restore workers' rights to band together to fight systemic workplace discrimination. Supporters of the Walmart decision may say ...
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3 Phoenix attorneys join Squire Sanders
AZ Central.com
Rosenfeld, who joined as a partner, has more than 35 years employment law experience, focusing in the defense of federal and state statutory employment claims. He received his law degree from Yale University in 1975. Pasternak, also a partner, focuses ...
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The 11 Law Schools With The Worst Employment Rates
Business Insider
And yet the law schools keep churning out students ... We've identified some of the schools with the highest rates of unemployment and underemployment, based on data from the Wall Street Journal. We also looked at the percentage of students who passed ...
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Business Insider
Arizona-Style Immigration Laws Hurt the Economy
Forbes
The Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA or employer sanctions) was the first such law, and it tried to regulate unauthorized workers out of the market. Its chief tool is E-Verify, an electronic employment eligibility verification system used to weed out ...
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Legal for Employer to Punish Employee for Signing a Referendum?
Opposing Views
Ct. App. 1981), held — dealing with a statute that made it a crime for an employer to "coerce or influence, or attempt to coerce or influence any of his employees by means of threats of discharge or loss of employment in case such employees should ...
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Opposing Views
Ontario teachers have strong case in court challenge, legal expert says
Toronto Star
"The law appears to interfere in the process of collective bargaining by freezing wages and dictating terms of employment, which gives the union a strong argument and puts the government on shaky legal ground," said Ryder. Premier Dalton McGuinty said ...
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Toronto Star
CEOs Twist Employees' Arms over Politics
CFO.com Magazine
Margaret Paget, co-chair of the employment practice at law firm Sherin and Lodgen, who typically represents companies and not employees, offers that "at the risk of stating the too-obvious, one can't fairly compare a cancelled shift to forced ...
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Schubert Formally Files Response Thursday; Requests to Dismiss Claims ...
SwimSwam
Rianda certainly has potential wrongful termination claims, breach of employment contract claims, and retaliation claims against both Golden West entities, but she does not appear to have viable claims against Mark Schubert under California employment ...
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SwimSwam
Law firm in employee owner deal
Scotsman
Fox and Partners, which specialises in equality and employment law, will give all nine employees an owning stake in the new entity, as well as representation within new management arrangements. Founder Carol Fox said: "We are going an extra step to ...
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Canada: Management Labour & Employment
Who's Who Legal
Former leader of the Toronto labour and employment practice group, Jeffrey Goodman combines his experience in employment law with his interest in mediation to provide assistance on labour disputes, human rights issues and health and safety law.
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Union Township adopts 'human rights' law
The Morning Sun
With a unanimous vote followed by applause from activists, the township adopted the law that would outlaw discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status ...
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Campaign 2012: How will it impact your workplace
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
The First Amendment provides no protection for private sector employees engaged in political activity or expression in the workplace. The First Amendment provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the ...
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For Ferguson Case attorney, pro bono service is a labor of love
Pacific Coast Business Times
By day she is a civil litigator and real estate attorney, but she picked up bankruptcy law for the first time to successfully defend a client sued by a lender for fraud during bankruptcy proceedings, according to the state bar. Many of the legal issues ...
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Pacific Coast Business Times
A FESCO as a Tool for Payroll and Labor Dispatch in China
China Briefing
Labor Contract Law stipulates that workers dispatched from a FESCO should generally assume temporary, substitute or auxiliary positions. In the past, this directive has often been ignored and FESCOs have been used to hire a wide variety of Chinese ...
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China Briefing
Walmart's workers unite
Boulder Weekly
Recently the National Employment Law Project (NELP), an independent nonprofit, issued a report saying Walmart is a major force driving down labor standards through policies of outsourcing and "squeezing" contractors and workers to cut costs constantly.
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Pocatello considers LGBT protection law
LocalNews8.com
A city committee is drafting a law that would make it illegal to discriminate in employment or housing based on someones sexual orientation or gender identity. Julie Zicha's shared her story with members of the city council to persuade them to support ...
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PRINCETON: Worker files labor charge
Packet Online
The Princeton Regional Health Commission, which under state law has sole jurisdiction to fix the duties and salaries of Health Department employees, had voted to put Mr. Carter at the pay grade. But in December 2010, borough officials voted to drop him ...
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Honorably discharged and returning to work? Don't make vets jump through ...
Business Management Daily
When he wasn't immediately reinstated, he sued under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act. The 6th Circuit concluded Brian should have been immediately reinstated without any preconditions and upheld a monetary award of ...
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Dewey, Skadden, Bingham, Cooley, Foley: Business of Law
Bloomberg
He has experience in appellate and insurance work, focusing his practice on appellate and regulatory law, complex litigation and employment law. Scott R. Miller joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the intellectual property ...
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Legal clinic for veterans will be Oct. 23
St. Cloud Times
Legal consultations are available for a wide variety of topics, including housing, consumer affairs, child support, employment and family law. Sponsored by the Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, in partnership with Central Minnesota Legal ...
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Planned layoffs can include those who took FMLA leave
Business Management Daily
Planned layoffs can include those who took FMLA leave. by The HR Specialist: Ohio Employment Law on October 11, 2012 5:00pm in FMLA Guidelines,Human Resources. Employees on FMLA leave sometimes think they're immume from being discharged.
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Kings Chambers barrister joins Welsh legal panel
The Birmingham Post
The prestigious appointment sees Paras Gorasia of Kings Chambers join the Cardiff legislature's specialist employment law panel, on which he will provide specialist legal advocacy and advisory support in a wide variety of cases and disputes. "I'm ...
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On the Record / Oct. 12, 2012
Buffalo News
Phillips Lytle was selected as a Go-To Law Firm for Labor and Employment Law for its "exceptional work" on behalf of DuPont from a survey by American Legal Media's Corporate Counsel and National Law Journal magazines. It's the sixth consecutive year ...
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New California Law Gives Employees and Job Applicants Greater Social Media ...
JD Supra (press release)
Last month, California became the third (and largest) state to regulate employer access to the social media accounts of applicants and employees. The law, A.B. 1844, will take effect on January 1, 2013, and is intended to protect California employees ...
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A Month in UK Employment Law Newsletter - October 2012
JD Supra (press release)
However, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that following recent European Court of Justice case law, the Directive gives workers are right to carry over leave entitlement without having to make a formal request and that on the termination of ...
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Income-Based Repayment: Lifeline for Law Graduates, Certain Loser for ...
Connecticut Law Tribune
With so many law school graduates trying to enter the workforce with six-figure debts and very poor short- and long-term employment prospects, the likelihood that the government will be forced to cancel large amounts of law school debt in 20-25 years ...
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Connecticut Law Tribune
Ferry workers to hold protests
ITV News
However the ferry firm says it abides by employment law. "Condor Ferries respects the right of RMT members to protest in a peaceful and nondisruptive manner. "However, we do not agree with their point of view. Condor Ferries is a diligent and concerned ...
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Blogs9 new results for Employment Law
 
Practical Pointers in Respect to Non-compete Agreements in China ...
By McDermott Will & Emery
This China Law Alert was authored by MWE China Law Offices lawyers John Huang and May Lu. In 2008, China's Labour Contract Law provided uniform rules regarding non-compete issues after the termination of an employment relationship.
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
A Sneak Peek at "Hiring Without Headaches" | Connecticut ...
By Daniel Schwartz
Portrait of Daniel Schwartz Trusted advisor. Experienced employment law attorney. Bar leader. Award-winning author. Noted Speaker. "Legal Rebel". All can be said to be apt descriptions of Daniel Schwartz, a member of Pullman & Comley.
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Opinion: Shares for Rights? An open letter to Nick Clegg
By Mark Valladares
NO, it is not! This drives a coach and horses through previous employment law, and takes us back several decades. I have set up small firms with employee ownership, and can tell you that I do not need to remove employee rights to do so, nor ...
Liberal Democrat Voice
What Employers Can Expect from the Next ... - Employment Law Watch
By Rebecca Blaw
Jonathan Nadler and Joel Barras published a series of three related articles in Forbes magazine last week, in which the Labor & Employment duo pre.
Employment Law Watch
NLRB Strikes Down Employee Handbook ... - The National Law Forum
By National Law Forum
Employees who wished to avoid discipline, according to the majority, would mind this rule in the context of disputes related to wages, hours, or terms and conditions of employment and therefore would be inhibited in exercising NLRA rights.
The National Law Forum
Inside the Law School Scam: Vanguard of the precariat
By LawProf
(3) The ABA Section of Legal Education has been pressured successfully into requiring schools to publish far more employment data than was available even a year ago. For example, elite law schools are no longer able to hide the fact that ...
Inside the Law School Scam
CAREER BLITZ: Law » Dartmouth College Career Services Blog
By dartcareer
Professor Organ will present information regarding the current realities in the employment market for law graduates and how those realities should reframe the way prospective law students think about whether to go to law school and where to ...
Dartmouth College Career Services Blog
Voter Suppression and Union Suppression Deny Basic Civil Rights ...
By dsalaborblogmoderator
Teacher unionist Albert Shanker interpreted Republican opposition to pro-union labor law reform in much the same way, stating that the legislation's passage could have changed "the entire politics of the Congress of the United States.
Talking Union
Psst...there's a hella-good new blog for HR and employment law ...
By Eric B. Meyer
Janette Levey Frisch, In-House Counsel at Joule, Inc., has guest-blogged here before (here and here). As you know from her posts here, she is a fantastic employment lawyer. Now you can reap more of the benefits by checking out her.
The Employer Handbook Blog

Web9 new results for Employment Law
 
McQueary case could affect employment law - Evening Sun
It s possible that former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary s civil suit against the university could break ground in employment law.
www.eveningsun.com/.../mcqueary-case-could-affect-employ...
Iowa Employment Lawyers: IA Lawyer, Attorney, Attorneys, Law Firms
Find Iowa Employment lawyers, attorneys, law firms - IA Employment Lawyers.
lawyers.findlaw.com/lawyer/practicestate/employment.../iowa
Was Your Job Title Reclassified? | Employment Law Attorney in ...
Read the blog entry entitled Was Your Job Title Reclassified?. To learn more, consult with a knowledgeable Employment Lawyer in Washington from Heyrich ...
www.waemploymentlaw.com/.../Was-Your-Job-Title-Reclassif...
Welch, Bruun & Green, Attorneys at Law - Employment Law ...
Welch, Bruun & Green, Attorneys at Law - Employment Law - Employment law is eclectic, and includes workers' compensation; unlawful discrimination; wrongful ...
www.wbgatty.com/index.asp?N=Employment-Law&C...
1 October employment law changes - Lexology
There are two important employment law changes effective from today (1 October being 1 of the 2 Government dates each year for implementing employment ...
www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6414e09a-da7d...
New Laws & Legislation - California Labor & Employment Law Blog
In the past few days he finally acted on various pieces of employment-related legislation, by signing several bills into law and vetoing a couple. Bills Signed Into ...
www.callaborlaw.com/blog/topic/new-laws-and-legislation%20
Employment Law: A Tour of the European Union on Vimeo
Do you have employees in the European Union or plan to hire in the near future? Watch the ...
vimeo.com/50690221
Employment Law Advisory for October 3, 2012: Social Media Privacy ...
As a result of the explosion in popularity of social media in recent years, employers frequently seek information regarding applicants or employees through ...
www.topix.com/forum/news/privacy/T1PC1B903T7FS4K0G
Employment Law Litigation - Freeman, Freeman & Smiley LLP
Service Details. Employment Law Litigation. Our Employment Practice attorneys regularly practice in all California State and Federal Courts, providing litigation ...
www.ffslaw.com/services/Employment_Law_Litigation/


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