Oct 16, 2012

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Mexico's Labor Law Reform Sparks Massive Protests
In These Times
The Mexican Senate has begun its 30-day consideration of a proposed reform of the country's labor laws. Its provisions will have a profound effect on Mexico's workers, changing the way they are hired, their rights at work, and their wages. Benedicto ...
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Labor law and workplace violence workshop planned
Central Valley Business Times
For both members without any dedicated HR staff and members with full HR departments, these forums are an opportunity to get updated on the latest changes in labor law, learn about important HR issues and get answers to urgent questions from HR ...
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Bowie & Jensen is Pleased to Announce that R. Michael Smith, A Veteran ...
Sacramento Bee
TOWSON, Md., Oct. 15, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Bowie & Jensen, a premier business law firm, is pleased to announce that veteran employment litigator R. Michael Smith is now a lawyer with the firm. "Our employment law practice was started by Nicole ...
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What You Can't Say in an Employee Handbook
Human Resource Executive Online
It may be time for HR leaders to update their employee handbooks, as even seemingly appropriate policy statements contained within them could place employers in violation of federal labor law, according to a few recent National Labor Relations Board ...
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Human Resource Executive Online
Virginia Jury Rules in Favor of University of Virginia Whistleblower for $819000
Sacramento Bee
"This case should encourage other whistleblowers that are seeing abuse in federal grants to come forward," stated Adam Augustine Carter, lead counsel for Dr. Huang from The Employment Law Group® law firm. "It is tough for people to come forward in such ...
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LIN TV CORP : LIN Media Expands Legal Team with the Appointment of Ronald ...
4-traders
LIN Media (NYSE: TVL), a local multimedia company, today announced the appointment of Ronald S. Allen to Counsel, Labor and Employment. Mr. Allen will oversee labor and employment law matters, and will report directly to Denise Parent, Senior Vice ...
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Deccan Chargers owner takes swipe at UK law
New York Daily News
"Hence, the English Courts had wrongly assumed jurisdiction and have passed the decree in contravention of the laws of India." DCHL also claims the employment contract it signed with Mr Wright was governed by Indian law and that Mr Wright was to fulfil ...
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Employer play or pay under healthcare reform law: It's time to prepare
HR.BLR.com
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as the healthcare reform law, does not require employers to provide healthcare insurance for their employees. Instead, it imposes penalties on those that do not. This type of scheme is referred to as play or pay.
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Koch Social Media Policy May Be Unlawful; Employers Still Have Broad Leeway ...
PR Watch
"Currently, the legal protections for [the workplace speech of] private sector employees are slim, to say the least," said Paul Secunda, an associate professor at Marquette Law School who specializes in labor and employment law. Private sector ...
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To Hell with the Law; Re-Election Is More Important
American Thinker
He has asked defense contract employers to ignore WARN -- that is, to break the law. Obama has asked defense contractors not to send out layoff notices to their employees in anticipation of "sequestration." This memorandum, dated September 28, 2012, ...
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Holiday headaches
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
By Jeffrey R. Smith. As we get later into the year, holidays start entering our awareness. It's the fourth quarter, year-end is approaching, people start to make their plans and employers have to keep in mind that their employees may have different ...
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Foxconn admits to violating Chinese law by hiring underage interns
The Verge
In a statement, Foxconn admits "that full responsibility for these violations rests with our company," going on to say that "any Foxconn employee found, through our investigation, to be responsible for these violations will have their employment ...
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Law Fails to Protect Children
AllAfrica.com
The were charged under the Employment Act, and not on child trafficking according to Section 79 of the Child Care Protection and Justice Act. The Child Care Protection and Justice Act, which became a law in December 2011, stipulates that a trafficker ...
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2012 election video: How should employers handle political speech at work?
HR.BLR.com
Hello. I'm Susan Schoenfeld, a Senior Legal Editor for BLR's human resources and employment law publications and I'm here today to talk about political speech in the workplace. As we approach Election Day, the media is full of stories about political ...
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LIFELINES: LABOR PAINS Labor law protects expectant and new mothers — to ...
The Japan Times
I had a labor consultation with a woman who said: "The other day I told my company I was pregnant. My boss asked me to quit because the firm can't afford to give me time off. One of my coworkers once resigned before giving birth but I want to stay on.
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Push for Hunting Weapons in Cars at Fairfax County Government Parking Lots
NBC4 Washington
An unusual legal controversy in Fairfax County involves crossbows and other hunting weapons and whether a new state law allows employees to take them to work. Push to Let Fairfax Co. Workers Take Huntin. Tweet. Link; Embed; Email. Copy. Close ...
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Legal Lasso: 24 Miles, 4 Minutes And 834 MPH Edition
Law Week Colorado
TAKING ON EMPLOYMENT LAW: The U.S. Supreme Court. It had a full employment law docket last term, and things haven't changed this term. Anticipated decisions range from very important nuts-and-bolts rulings to potentially more abstract but equally ...
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Grand jury: SF eateries took tips on health care surcharge
Business Management Daily
Grand jury: S.F. eateries took tips on health care surcharge. by The HR Specialist: California Employment Law on October 15, 2012 2:00pm in Compensation and Benefits,Human Resources. A San Francisco civil grand jury has concluded that 38 restaurants ...
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Egypt: The Land Centre Asks the President and His Government,' When Will ...
AllAfrica.com
... handled, as if all those years and the last months are not sufficient yet to issue a decision to turn temporary employees in a government sector that should comply with the laws and respect ILO conventions to ensure the right of decent work for all ...
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Employment Update: October 2012
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The primary focus of this edition is the Government's latest proposals for employment law reform. David Green gives us his opinion on these and we take a look at what we think the likely outcome of the consultations will be. We have also taken this ...
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Unemployment Stories, Vol. 12: 'The World Is Filled with People Who Just Don't ...
Gawker
Unemployment Stories, Vol. 12: 'The World Is Filled with People Who Just During tomorrow's presidential debates, you will doubtless hear much talk about unemployment in America, but you will not hear from the unemployed themselves. Here, you can. Each ...
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Celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month with UCP
The Sacramento Press
National Disability Employment Awareness Month traces back to 1945, when Congress enacted a law declaring the first week in October each year "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1962, the word "physically" was removed to ...
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About Jotham Stein
Patch.com
Author of a recent book on negotiation, Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees, published by Oxford University Press in 2011, available at Amazon.com. Political experience: 2009 candidate for St. Charles mayor ...
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Did Big Banks Violate Civil Rights Law in the Housing Crisis?
The Atlantic Cities
In one famous 1971 employment discrimination case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Duke Power Company violated the Civil Rights Act by requiring employees to hold a high-school diploma and certain intelligence test scores – a policy that had little to ...
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The Atlantic Cities
Your Job or Your Health Insurance
Business Insider
Passed into law in 2010, and initially upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 2012, ObamaCare has had an ongoing negative effect upon the employment situation in the United States since it was crammed through the House of Representatives and ...
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Employment Newsletter - September 2012
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT's decision in NHS Leeds v Larner that a worker who was absent due to sickness for a whole leave year was entitled to payment for that year's unused statutory holiday entitlement when her employment terminated. Mrs ...
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Survey: Many bosses don't pay holiday overtime
EastDay.com
Ye Jingyi, a labor law professor at Peking University, said that as a general rule, most big enterprises and government-affiliated institutions are reliable when granting overtime pay, but in many small private firms, overtime pay is often absent ...
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Blogs7 new results for Employment Law
 
Foxconn Admits to Employing 14 Year Old Interns at Chinese Factory
By Jon Russell
This is not only a violation of China's labor law, it is also a violation of Foxconn policy and immediate steps have been taken to return the interns in question to their educational institutions. We are also carrying out a full investigation, ...
The Next Web
Foxconn admits child labor laws breached by use of underage ...
By James Trew
Foxconn has admitted that it employed underage interns in breach of China's child labor laws. An internal investigation at its Yantai factory found some.
Engadget
Forced Migration Current Awareness: Employment, Property Rights
By EEM
Employment, Property Rights. Events after the fact: Joint Colloquium on the Right to Work for Refugees in Europe, Strasbourg, 27 September 2012 [info] - See also related UNHCR news story and interview with the UNHCR Representative to ...
Forced Migration Current Awareness
NLRB Takes a Hardline Approach Against Class Action Waivers in ...
By plushq
In distinguishing the aforementioned Supreme Court precedent, D.R. Horton noted that neither case involved employment agreements or the waiver of rights protected by federal law. In addition, the policy espoused by the FAA did not alter the ...
PLUS Blog
New Risks for At-Will Employment Disclaimers - Free Enterprise
By Deanne Katz, Esq.
The disclaimers both included language stating at-will employment could not be altered or modified without written permission from a high-level executive. That violated employees' rights to engage in collective bargaining, according to the ...
FindLaw News - Top Stories
Broadening the "Ministerial Exception": What Limits on Judicial ...
By Georgia L. Holmes and Penny Herickhoff
Too broad an exception will immunize religious organizations under numerous neutral, generally applicable laws, such as those governing sexual abuse, unemployment compensation, employer social security deductions, and sales taxes, ...
Bench and Bar of Minnesota
Employee Vacations: Good For Business | BCBusiness
By Nicole Byres
This blog is written by Nicole Byres of Clark Wilson LLP and made available by BCBusiness to provide general information on employment law, and is not a substitute for competent legal advice from a lawyer licensed to practice in your ...

Web11 new results for Employment Law
 
Employment law, dicipline? - Yahoo! Answers
Employment law, dicipline? last year i fell at work (slipped) and severly banged my head. since then i was urged by my union rep to make a claim. during this i ...
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Home - Labor and Employment Law Section
Labor and Employment Law Section Executive Committee and Committee Chairs Business Meeting. Nov 19, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time) ...
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Employment Law Defense - Cleary Shahi & Aicher, P.C.
Rutland, Vermont, employment law defense lawyers. Call 802-282-4980 for a free consultation with Cleary Shahi & Aicher, P.C..
www.vttriallaw.com/Litigation.../Employment-Law-Defense/
Employment Law: Small Business Updates | Monster.com
Busy building a business? Don't let all your hard work get derailed because of a thoughtless employment law mistake.
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New Orleans Employment Law Attorney | Metairie LA Wrongful ...
Free consultation. Call 504-662-9606. The New Orleans lawyers at Burgos & Evans, LLC, resolve complex legal disputes between employees and employers.
www.neworleanslawfirm.com/Employment-Law.shtml
Kean Miller Employment Law Forum Scheduled ... - Kean Miller LLP
KEAN MILLER LLP. - Bayou Cane, Louisiana Business Lawyer - Laplace, Louisiana Environmental Law Attorney.
www.keanmiller.com/lawyer-attorney-2035024.html
Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2012 Cumulative Supplement to "Privacy in
Bloomberg BNA published 2012 Cumulative Supplement Privacy Employment Law Third Edition offering guidance employeeemployer rights limits employer ...
www.bna.com/bloomberg-bna-publishes-pr17179870195/
Jacksonville Breakfast Briefing: Post-Election Employment Law in ...
Following our national election on November 6, 2012, we will know more about the direction of our administrative agencies, laws and courts for the next four ...
www.constangy.com/communications-events-146.html
Labor And Employment Law Firms Kivalina Alaska - Lawyers.com
Find Kivalina, Alaska Labor And Employment lawfirm listings and reviews on Lawyers.com.
www.lawyers.com/Labor-And-Employment/.../law-firms.html
EventsSpeaking Engagements | Events | Employment Law Institute ...
Employment Law Institute: The Latest Cases and Trends in Employment Law DATE: October 18, 2012. WHERE: AT&T Building (2nd Floor Theater) Nashville ...
www.bassberry.com/employment-law-institute-the-latest-cases-...
Facebook, Twitter, and the 2012 Employer - Employment Law
News alerts, employment and pension law updates, employment guidance toolkits and checklists. Global Product Liability. Showcases the depth of capabilities ...
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