Oct 25, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

News35 new results for Employment Law
 
Urging Federal Contractors to Violate the WARN Act
Right Side News
Sending employees layoff notices 60 days before a plant closing or mass layoff is required under the WARN Act,[3] a law that President Barack Obama previously supported. In 2007, when he wanted to amend the WARN Act to force employers to give 90 ...
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Birmingham council workers' ruling is significant for others making equal pay ...
Out-Law.com
"Previously the legislation was quite clear in that equal pay cases had to be brought to tribunal either during employment or within six months of employment terminating," said employment law expert Helen Corden of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind ...
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New employment laws for hiring non union labour before parliament by Christmas
Newstalk ZB
New laws making it easier for employers to employ non union labour and to opt out of collective agreements should be before Parliament by Christmas. The new law would see wages deducted for low level industrial action and would require parties in all ...
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Lee County manager's severance may violate law
The News-Press
A long-standing state law prohibits county employees from collecting severance pay that wasn't agreed upon in their contract, according to senate analysis and attorney general opinions. "No extra compensation shall be made to any officer, agent ...
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Louisiana Employment, Wages Increased in 2011
Insurance Journal
The information comes from quarterly tax reports submitted by all employers subject to the Louisiana Employment Security Law and from supplemental reports giving parish data submitted by employers with multiple locations. Information is available at ...
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Judge: Deported immigrant still entitled to workers' comp
The News Journal
Attorney Molly DiBianca, who specializes in employment law and has a legal blog about the subject, said although it may sound unfair at first that an illegal immigrant can get workers' compensation, the way Herlihy ruled is how other courts around the ...
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Pennsylvania amends its UI law on various subjects
CCH
The definition for "valid application for benefits" has been changed to require that an individual's wages must be earned in "employment" (as defined under the law) for the purposes of a valid application for benefits. With respect to claimants who ...
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Employees beware: The perils of posting on Facebook
rabble.ca
The dramatic growth of social media use in Canada on such sites as Facebook has raised novel legal issues for employers and employees. One such issue is whether or not an employee's off-duty conduct online (i.e. posting personal status updates, photos ...
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rabble.ca
News: TUC dismisses CBI union proposals as "attempt to weaken employees ...
HRZone.co.uk
CBI proposals to bring trade union laws "up to date with the modern workplace" have been dismissed by the TUC as simply an attempt to "weaken employees' voice". In a speech at law firm Eversheds' Labour Relations Conference yesterday, Neil Bentley, the ...
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News: Dyson sues Bosch after discovering 'spy' on its staff
HRZone.co.uk
In a statement, Dyson said: "Bosch vice president, Dr Hirschburger, was aware of the engineer's employment at Dyson. Dyson has confronted Bosch with evidence of wrongdoing, but it has refused to return the technology. Nor has it promised not to use the ...
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Severance pay during termination
Daily News
My employer said that he computed it on the basis of the employment law not following the clause in my employment contract which states that severance pay will be payment of six months of my salary at the time. The challenge is that the amount I was ...
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Daily News
Fired Wells Fargo employee rejects reinstatement
USA TODAY
Attorney Leonard Bates, who is representing Eggers for the Newkirk Law Firm in Des Moines, said his client sought to negotiate more humane terms for all Wells Fargo employees fired under the expanded employment rule. Those request included the ...
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Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Signs House and Senate Bills
Sacramento Bee
House Bill 1548 – Regulates child labor, repealing and replacing the former Child Labor Law in its entirety. House Bill 1616 – Amends Title 15 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations) adding a new chapter to the current Business Corporation Law ...
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Employment changes: 'Death by a thousand cuts'
TVNZ
Unions fear worker rights are again in for the chop and Robert Reid, general secretary of First Union, says ever since National came in it has introduced employment law changes every couple of years. "It's a bit like death by a thousand cuts," Reid ...
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Seminar is sell-out success
Lancaster Today
Joanne Holborn said: "Our Employment Law Update seminars are well known throughout Cumbria and with the opening of our new offices in Lancaster, we are delighted to bring our seminars to Lancashire, for the benefit of the local businesses." Email to a ...
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Lancaster Today
Bosses admit they're not fussed by workers' rights
Morning Star Online
Bosses themselves admitted today that employment law and health and safety rules don't hurt their businesses. The Con-Dem coalition is hell-bent on tearing up laws ensuring workers' rights and safety that they say are a "burden on business." But a ...
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Landmark Supreme Court ruling sets new tribunal precedent
Russell Jones & Walker
A landmark ruling at London's Supreme Court could result in Britain's employment law landscape changing forever. Yesterday (October 24th), it emerged that the Supreme Court has upheld an earlier decision made in favour of 174 females who used to work ...
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'Government workers, not officials, are marginalized, underrepresented'
Bulatlat
MANILA – Government employees are asking the Commission on Elections to reconsider its decision denying accreditation to their party-list group, saying that they need representation in the House of Representatives as no law has been passed protecting ...
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Adcorp's labour law bonanza
Financial Mail
Under the amendments, he explains, companies would have to afford contract workers benefits equal to those of permanent employees in a similar position after an initial employment period of six months. The rule, he adds, would apply only if there was a ...
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Sky staffer plundered database to benefit naughty false firms
Register
A former Sky employee who took Sky customers' information from its databases and passed it on for use by others was guilty of misusing the company's confidential information and infringing the firms' database rights, the High Court has ruled. Steven ...
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An Ex-Staffer's Revelation Could Doom A Law School Accused Of Massive Fraud
Business Insider
An ex-employee of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says her boss told her to distort the employment statistics of its graduates, according to a sworn declaration. The declaration was filed in a class action that a Thomas Jefferson grad filed claiming it ...
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In this morning's Michigan news headlines. . .
Michigan Radio
"Governor Rick Snyder says if voters reject Proposal 2, that would not be an invitation to pass a right-to-work law in Michigan. Proposal 2 would guarantee collective bargaining rights in the state constitution, and call into question many of the state ...
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Not alms, but rights
The Hindu
According to the 1959 law on beggary, Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, anyone perceived as having "no visible means of subsistence" and "wandering about" can be branded a beggar and detained in certified institutions for a period of not less than one ...
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The Hindu
Recent NLRB Decision Affirms Specificity Requirement In Employer Social ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union filed an administrative charge against Costco, alleging that the policy violated National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") Section 8(a)(1). While an Administrative Law Judge ("ALJ") found that employees would ...
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Equality rules
The Lawyer
Mishcon de Reya employment partner Greg Campbell labelled the judgment an "incremental step for employment law" and said it may still take another 30 to 40 years for gender pay equality to be achieved organically, rather than through litigation ...
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Walmart workers sue for unpaid wages
People's World
... the difference between what they actually got and Illinois' minimum wage, damages and a court injunction banning Walmart - legally considered a "joint employer" - and the staffing agencies from further state and federal wage and hour labor law ...
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Proposed Anti-Bias Law Would Protect Transgender New Yorkers, Advocates Say
DNAinfo
Daniel Squadron sponsored, would give statewide legal protections to people who are denied employment, housing, access to health care, or access to stores or restaurants because of their gender. "It is simply unacceptable that a New Yorker can lose ...
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Unions vow to fight new law
The Farming Show
"We will fight very hard against these employment law changes and I think New Zealanders will see this for what it is, it's about reducing paying conditions of New Zealand workers." Peter Conway says workers have a right to take industrial action but ...
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Teare elected partner at Shawe & Rosenthal
Daily Record (subscription)
Teare represents employers in all aspects of employment law and counsels them on strategies and best practices to limit potential liability exposure. Teare litigates claims of employment discrimination, employment torts and contracts in both federal ...
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Wage Gap for U.S. Women Endures Even as Jobs Increase
Bloomberg
The new law lets workers file a complaint within 180 days of receiving each paycheck that they consider discriminatory. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported on the one-year anniversary of the legislation that it had received 4,800 ...
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Romney Flails on Gay Rights
The Nation. (blog)
BuzzFeed asked Cooper if Romney pledged to sign the Employment Non-Discrimination Act [ENDA], and Cooper said, "I did not say Romney would sign the current form of ENDA." But he admitted that he, "discussed legislative vehicles and executive actions ...
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The Nation. (blog)
Betty Binns Fletcher Dies at 89; Liberal Stalwart on the Bench
New York Times
In 33 years on the bench, Judge Fletcher generally wrote liberal opinions on matters like employment discrimination, environmental protection and the death penalty. In 1996 ... The couple had four young children when she decided to go back to law school.
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Now Romney supports gay adoption, DADT repeal, and hospital rights
AMERICAblog (blog)
First, we learned yesterday that the lead gay group, Log Cabin Republicans, had "sat down" with Romney staffers, and afterwards were convinced that Romney would help gays on employment discrimination, which usually means supporting ENDA and/or an ...
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Audit: UIHC employee stole $272000
Iowa City Press Citizen
Vaudt said he's shared his more than 200-page report with law enforcement, the state Attorney General's Office and the Johnson County Attorney's Office. The report also includes 17 policy recommendations for UIHC to prevent similar incidents in the ...
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The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 Recognizes Two Bennett Law Firm Attorneys
PR Web (press release)
Peter Bennett, a Partner of the firm originally founded fifty years ago by his father, Herbert H. Bennett, is renowned as a leading labor and employment law attorney and has been awarded Best Lawyers in America ongoing since 2006. He is also a leader ...
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Blogs8 new results for Employment Law
 
EEOC Guidance Threatens Employers Who Conduct Criminal ...
By Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC
However, state and local laws are preempted by Title VII if they purport to "require or permit the doing of any act which would be an unlawful employment practice" under Title VII. Therefore, if an employer's exclusionary policy or practice is not ...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
Employment Law Basics: Handling the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
By Mark Toth
Employment laws can be confusing and downright scary. They don't have to be. As a public service, from now until my special Halloween webinar Answers to the World's Scariest Employment Law Questions, I'll be tackling each major law one ...
TLNT
EEOC forces cardiologists to have change of heart — Business ...
By The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law
by The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law on October 25, 2012 10:00am in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. A Western Pennsylvania cardiology practice has agreed to settle EEOC sexual harassment charges ...
Business Management Daily
Twitter Rant Costs Man Job, Unemployment Benefits - Employment ...
By Andrew Lu
Before the Internet, one could gripe and complain about work to a spouse or bartender. But when someone makes the same complaints on Facebook or Twitter, that person could find himself out of a job and without any rights to unemployment ...
Law and Daily Life
The California Employment Law Blog: Shelley v. Geren: Ninth Circuit ...
By Steven G. Pearl
I recently attended an employment law update presented by Patrice Goldman and Andrew Friedman, and they noted several cases that I missed over the course of the last year. I will be discussing those cases over the next few weeks.
The California Employment Law...
NLRB Makes It Official – Requiring Employees to Be Courteous Is ...
By admin
We reported that holding in our November 1, 2011 Employment Law Briefing. (See our article below). Termination Was Lawful, but … Now it's official. The NLRB upheld the ALJ and issued its opinion that had some bad news for employers and ...
Hall Render - Blog
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: Lawffice Links - Who Owns ...
By Philip Miles
What happens when an employee uses a LinkedIn account for professional and personal use, shares the password with a co-worker, and then leaves the company? If you guessed "a lawsuit over ownership of the LinkedIn account" then you ...
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog
New York Public Personnel Law: Resigning from a teaching position ...
By The Public Employment Law Press
The Layoff, Preferred List and Reinstatement Manual - a 645 page e-book reviewing the relevant laws, rules and regulations, and selected court and administrative decisions is available from the Public Employment Law Press. Click On ...
New York Public Personnel Law

Web2 new results for Employment Law
 
Calif.: New Law Restricts Employer Access to Employee Social ...
You're sitting in your office. Maybe revising a handbook. A manager rushes in with a lurid tale. "You won't believe this," he gushes. "That new hire in ...
www.shrm.org/.../Calif-Employee-Social-Media-Accounts.asp...
Labor & Employment Law - Davis, Bucco & Ardizzi
Labor & Employment Law. As all businesses are affected by state and federal government regulations, Davis, Bucco & Ardizzi attorneys regularly appear before ...
davisbucco.com/practice-areas/labor-employment-law/


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