Oct 24, 2012

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News31 new results for Employment Law
 
Former Thomas Jefferson School of Law Employee Alleges Falsification of ...
Above the Law
Back in March, we reported that Thomas Jefferson School of Law's motion to dismiss Anna Alaburda's class action lawsuit over the school's allegedly misleading employment statistics was "not well-taken," and the case moved on to the discovery phase.
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Above the Law
Social Media in the Workplace, with Wendi Lazar of Outten and Golden, LLP
LBNstudio
Wendi Lazar, of Outten and Golden, LLP in New York talks with the Employment Law Channel, part of the Legal Broadcast Network, about social media policies in the workplace and the recent NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) decisions that have come ...
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Health law could squeeze small Idaho employers
The Idaho Statesman
But come 2014, the Affordable Care Act prohibits small employers from shifting costs to their employees through deductibles of more than $2,000 for an individual plan and $4,000 for a family plan. The law also sets maximum out-of-pocket costs. In 2014 ...
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The Idaho Statesman
CBI proposes union law shake-up
Financial Times
The coalition has been reviewing strike ballot laws for 18 months, but has so far shown little appetite to legislate. Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, said the CBI proposals would weaken the voice of employees and some would make employment ...
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Around Tech Valley
Albany Times Union
John M. Bagyi, deputy managing attorney in Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC's Albany office, was included in the Best Lawyers In America 2013 listing for Employment Law — Management and the 2012 New York Super Lawyers Upstate Edition listing for ...
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NLRB Law Update – Recent NLRB Decisions That Affect The Non-Union ...
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
In American Red Cross Arizona Blood Services Region and Lois Hampton, Case 28-CA-23443, (2012), an NLRB Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") held that a statement in an employee handbook acknowledgment form concerning the permanence of the ...
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174 women win Supreme Court equal pay fight against Birmingham council for ...
Daily Mail
Sarah Ozanne, an employment specialist at law firm CMS Cameron McKenna, added: 'This is a significant development in current equal pay laws, and leaves employers open to the threat of claims long after the employment relationship has ended.' ...
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Daily Mail
Introduction of Foreign Legal Concepts Into Russian Legal Practice
The Moscow Times
Non-compete and non-solicitation provisions are, perhaps, among the most widespread legal concepts applied in arranging employment relations. Yet neither Russian law nor relevant court practice is fully adjusted to proper legal protection of employers ...
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The Moscow Times
Former Sky employee was guilty of database rights infringement for supply of ...
Out-Law.com
Steven Lee, who worked for Sky In-Home Service for more than five years, was also guilty of breaching the terms of his employment contract with the company as a result of his activities, the Court said. Lee "transmitted" data that was "substantial in ...
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Camden County sued over Sunshine Law
Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Camden County -- A lawsuit filed against Camden County by a former employee alleges the commission not only violated the Missouri Sunshine Law but failed to uphold a $10,000 verbal settlement offer. The suit was filed by Tony Beabout in Camden County ...
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Health Care Reform: Cameron County businesses assess changes, options ahead
Brownsville Herald
"So, depending on what happens with the election, if the law holds, then we'll see what's written in the law and how it will affect their businesses and employees," she said. "Everybody is just sitting tight. We're just going to wait this out." The ...
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Workers Compensation Bill Signed into Law
Santa Barbara Independent
Press Release Guidelines. A new law authored by Assemblyman Das Williams will target unethical contractors who intentionally underreport and/or fail to report the hiring of new employees in an attempt to avoid paying full workers' compensation premiums.
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Wal-Mart and Two of its Staffing Agencies Sued
JDJournal.com
A lawsuit has been filed against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for allegedly breaking laws related to minimum wage and overtime. Also named in the suit are the staffing agencies used by the company. The lawsuit said that the company's temporary employees were ...
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Implementing Employee Owner Status
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Government intends to amend the Employment Rights Act 1996 to create a third employment status, "employee owner", alongside those of "worker" and "employee". The employee owner status has two defining characteristics – an equity share and ...
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Top 7 HR Trends: Lawyers' Perspective
The Moscow Times
In this article we would like to draw attention to the main HR trends from the standpoint of labor lawyers. This includes changes or proposed changes to labor and employment laws, as well as HR practices that are raising important legal questions. "New ...
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The Moscow Times
Students volunteering with post-quake law cases
New Zealand Herald
The University of Canterbury law students are donating thousands of hours to help people wade through insurance documents, Earthquake Commission (EQC) correspondence, and preparing for criminal cases and employment disputes. The new Dean of ...
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CBI urges trade union law changes
MSN Money UK
The laws too often empower union leaders at the expense of employees, said the business organisation. Deputy director general Neil Bentley said a "whole new approach" was needed on how to engage with workers. He will tell a conference that changes ...
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Put labour law changes on hold, union says
NZ City
"This survey confirms New Zealand is already a highly business-friendly country," he said. "Removing employment rights doesn't create jobs and the government should re-think its employment law proposals." The government recently extended the 90-day ...
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Got a hugger on your hands? He spells trouble
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Illinois Employment Law on October 23, 2012 2:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. Having a good sexual harassment policy in place doesn't mean much if your supervisors ignore it. Take, for example, someone ...
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Business Finance: Peter Harrup of PKF on new employee-owner employment ...
Yourcanterbury.co.uk
The basic premise is that the employer offers employees shares (worth at least £2,000 but not over £50,000) in return for less protection under employment law. Employees may be asked to give up their rights in relation to unfair dismissal, redundancy ...
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Yourcanterbury.co.uk
Case File: 'Blue Bloods' Star vs. CBS
Hollywood Reporter
... or required by a 'reduced schedule,' is the mistake many employers make before they know all the facts, and this mistake violates both federal law, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and California state law, the Fair Employment and Housing Act ...
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The sequestration game
Carolinacoastonline
This federal law requires (emphasis) employers with at least 100 employees to provide a legally required notice to employees 60 days in advance if they might be laid off. Because America's national debt is $16.2 trillion, rising $4.25 billion a day, ...
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Eight in 10 workers angry with their lazy colleagues
Irish Independent
But the number one gripe of employees is the lazy workmate who fails to carry their share of the labour burden, according to research carried out by Peninsula Ireland, an employment law consultancy. The research is based on the replies of 341 workers ...
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NDP urges 'common sense solution' in Sask. labour law changes
CTV News
Workplace and employment relationships are currently governed by 15 separate acts such as the Trade Union Act, the Public Services Essential Services Act, the Labour Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The government has said ...
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CTV News
President Obama Reverses Course, For Now, and We're Better Off For It
Forbes
According to The Hill, more than 1,200 businesses, unions, and nonprofits received such waivers, covering about 4 million employees, from the law's restrictions on benefit caps. Many of these waivers expire at the end of 2013, thus giving a large group ...
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SPI, EEOC reach settlement on discrimination lawsuit; SPI to pay $95000 fine
AndersonValleyPost.com
"We will not tolerate it in our company and will terminate employees who have harassed others," he added. Harassment based on national origin violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law also strictly prohibits retaliation against ...
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'Females only' job advert for Bristol Subway comes under fire
This is Bristol
A Bristol franchisee of submarine sandwich store Subway may have broken employment law by posting a job advert for female-only staff. The advert, which appeared on classified adverts website Gumtree over the weekend, appealed for "female staff to work ...
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This is Bristol
Wise employers pick their battles carefully
Financial Post
... legislation that may prevent employers from setting off such losses against wages. Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt LLP, employment and labour lawyers. He practises employment law in eight provinces and is author of The Law of Hiring in ...
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Financial Post
Temp Workers Sue Wal-Mart, Staffing Firms
Workforce Management
... Inc. and two staffing firms — QPS Employment Group Inc. and Labor Ready - Midwest Inc. — claiming they didn't receive pay for all hours worked and didn't receive employment and wage notices as required by law, according to the complaint in the ...
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The Never-Ending Employment Law Case and the Hour-Long Commute
JD Supra (press release)
The agreement stated that it did not alter the at-will relationship and that it does not provide "any greater or lesser rights or privileges than any other employee." The court rejected Plaintiff's claim that this language required her to be treated ...
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Lamontagne comments on equal pay for women draw criticism from Hassan ...
The Union Leader
And if there aren't, we should have that legal remedy available." He admitted he was "not familiar enough with employment laws right now in New Hampshire to know whether or not there is in fact right now available remedy. "There must be a remedy for ...
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Blogs10 new results for Employment Law
 
Florida Minimum Wage Rising to $7.79 | Fisher & Phillips LLP ...
By Fisher & Phillips LLP
This is an amount equal to the new Florida minimum of $7.79 per hour, minus the $3.02 hourly tip credit permitted under Florida law (assuming that these employees receive enough in tips to generate this credit). Employers taking advantage ...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
Hiring Seasonal Workers – The Dos and Don'ts | Employment Law ...
By Sage
By Amanda at Sage HR Advice. Hiring Seasonal Workers Christmas is nearly here, and that can mean many things for small businesses. But for many SMEs, Christmas can mean a seasonal spike in sales and productivity. While that's ...
Sage Ireland Blog
The California Employment Law Blog: Harbor Regional Center v ...
By Steven G. Pearl
Harbor Regional Center (Harbor) appeals from the judgment in this administrative mandate action, contending that the trial court erred by determining that an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) from the state's Office of Administrative Hearings ...
The California Employment Law Blog
DOMA Decisions Raise Questions About Employer Health Benefits ...
By Deanne Katz, Esq.
DOMA's invalidation would affect federal laws regarding private employment as well as benefits for federal employees. If it's overturned by the Supreme Court that could require employers to offer the same health benefits to both gay and ...
In House
Writers needed for labor law or employment posters articles | Articles ...
Most important, you know employment law or are familar with labor law posters, or you pay attention to the employment in US. The topics for the articles.
Freelancer.com - New Projects
Judgment in Joined Cases C-302/11 to C-305/11 ... - EU Laws
By İlke Göçmen
EU law precludes 'stabilisation' of the employment relationship of public sector workers employed on a fixed-term basis which does not take account of the length of service accrued. The fixed-term nature of the contract does not constitute an ...
EU Laws
The Walmart Strikes » TripleCrisis
By Triplecrisis
The result was the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), passed in 1935. The NLRA has nominally been the law of the land ever since, with a few notable adjustments. It set up the system through which unions persistently tried and failed to ...
TripleCrisis
Bill C-377: The Conservatives' Private Members Bill on Union ...
By Doorey
Thoughts on Canadian Labour & Employment Law For Students & Others. Home · Prof. David Doorey · Copyright · MHRM Wiki Library · School of HRM · Osgoode LLM · Scholarship · In the Media · Bad Employers ...
Doorey's Workplace Law Blog
Could more have been done to protect Zina, Azana employees - WITI
By Henry Rosoff
When it comes to employer/employee relationships, there's nothing (the employer) can do to prevent something like this from happening — specifically under the employment law," Luzi said. As for co-workers who may have felt unsafe and ...
FOX6Now.com – Milwaukee News...
EEOC Guidance On Criminal Convictions And Employer Duty Of ...
By Hunton & Williams LLP
Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives : Employment Lawyers & Attorneys : Hunton & Williams Law Firm : Labor Law Legislative Updates · Published By Hunton & Williams. Hot Topics. Union Organizing and the NLRB... Read More ...
Hunton Employment & Labor Law...

Web4 new results for Employment Law
 
Employment Statistics | Duke University School of Law
Duke Law graduates are in high demand because they are known as leaders, clear thinkers, and excellent writers who are ready to serve as effective advocates ...
law.duke.edu/admis/employment/
SES Labor and Employment Law Seminar « Mitchell Williams Law ...
Attorneys Ben Brenner and George Ernst will speak on November 14, 2012 at the SES Labor and Employment Law Seminar. This seminar addresses new ...
www.mitchellwilliamslaw.com/.../ses-labor-and-employment-l...
NLRB issues report on Fiscal Year 2012 activities | Employment Law ...
The NLRB has issued a report on its activities during the Fiscal Year 2012. The Board reports that it resolved nine of its 10 oldest cases, issued more than 300.
www.employmentlawdaily.com/.../nlrb-issues-report-on-fiscal-...
Rudman Winchell's Employment Law Team Presents The Annual ...
Rudman Winchell's Employment Law Team Presents Annual Employment Law Seminar. Friday November 9, 2012 at Hollywood Casino. 7:30am -12:30pm ...
www.rudmanwinchell.com/.../267-rudman-winchell-s-employ...


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