Oct 26, 2012

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News27 new results for Employment Law
 
Laws help workers get time off to vote
Kansas City Star
As Election Day nears, employment law attorneys remind employers that they could run afoul of state laws if they don't allow employees time off to vote. As a practical matter, the laws won't affect many Kansas City area workplaces, mainly because there ...
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NLRB scrutinizes employee handbooks that curb worker rights
Workday Minnesota
WASHINGTON - The National Labor Relations Board's top lawyer is turning his attention to overly broad "employee handbooks" that curb or violate workers' rights, and especially their "at will" employment clauses. According to reports in legal blogs, the ...
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Coalition Party to Vote Against Labor Reform Law
Greek Reporter
The center-left Dimar party, the smallest in the government's three-party coalition, announced it will vote against the labor reform agreed to with the Troika of creditors; the European Union, the European Central Bank and the IMF. The reforms are part ...
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Greek Reporter
Cintas CEO Sends Email To Employees Condemning ObamaCare and Over ...
NewsBusters (blog)
While one of the original intents of the new health care law was to provide broader access to health care for all people, the law is actually set up to allow companies to eliminate their health care coverage and instead pay a penalty of $2,000 per ...
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Business Law: Clare Richards on the importance of written employment contracts
Yourcanterbury.co.uk
The Employment Rights Act 1998 requires an employer to provide written particulars of employment to the employee within two months from the start of employment. These relate to the core terms of employment namely job title, type and place of employment ...
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Yourcanterbury.co.uk
Law Dean Can Take Suit for Racial Bias to Trial
Courthouse News Service
"Texas Southern University treated one of the hardest working employees in its law school poorly for one reason and one reason alone - she is Caucasian," Garrison wrote. "It denied this woman compensation she earned, it stripped her of job duties she ...
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Employment law seminars are sell-out success
The Westmorland Gazette
Three seminars highlighting key issues facing businesses and employers with changes and new developments in employment legislation were a sell-out. They were staged by Baines Wilson LLP, a commercial law firm based in Carlisle and Lancaster, at the ...
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Ecop tags 6 proposed laws 'negative'
ABS CBN News
MANILA, Philippines - The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop) has identified six out of over 100 proposed measures in Congress that they fear would negatively impact on the growth of employment in the country if they were enacted into law.
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Connecticut amends its UI law on various subjects
CCH
From 1994 to 2013, the Administrator must establish a fund balance tax rate sufficient to maintain a balance in the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund equal to 0.8% of the total wages paid to workers covered by contributing employers during the year ...
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UK whistleblowing law set to change
Shoosmiths legal updates
The much-criticised loophole that allows disclosures made in relation to a breach of an employee's own employment contract to become protected looks set to be closed. The Bill proposes to amend the current requirements so that disclosures must be made ...
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Lifepoint names new VP, corporate secretary
Nashville Ledger newspaper
Siskind Susser, P.C. has added Bruce Buchanan as an attorney in the firm's Nashville Office, where he represents employers and individuals in all aspects of immigration law, as well as employers in employment/labor law matters. His expertise within ...
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Nashville Ledger newspaper
Professors allowed to commercialize personal research under new law
SRU The Online Rocket
Last Thursday, Cavanaugh spoke about the new law that will allow PASSHE employees to commercialize intellectual property that is tied to their employment. Ms. Nancy Cruikshank, director of grants and sponsored research, said that the state system didn ...
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State bumps minimum wage to $7.80 an hour
cvbugle
He said the law is forcing companies to give raises to employees "when their business is down.' Court ultimately pulled the plug after he said polling by the restaurant industry showed the measure would be defeated by voters. But that may not be the ...
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China Passes First Mental Health Law
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The new law emphasizes privacy, requiring that institutions and individuals protect the personal information of mentally ill patients, such as names, addresses and employment data, according to a report from the state-owned Xinhua News Agency. It also ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Law guide helps early childhood education services
Voxy
... about legislation relating directly to early childhood education such as The Education Act 1989 and the Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008, as well as other areas which affect services such as health and safety and employment law.
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Connections: Labor lawyer sees herself as a problem solver
Business Journal
Kirsten Doolittle, 38, of The Law Office of Kirsten Doolittle PA, is unusual in that she represents both employers and employees. Doolittle recently moved her offices to The Elks Building to accommodate her firm's growth. "My client base is very ...
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The 10 Dos and Don'ts of Conducting Employee Background Checks
Forbes
Do follow the law. Based on the way the background check is conducted, you will be required to have a legal release form completed by the applicant, inform that person of his/her rights, and provide that applicant with a copy of the report, as well as ...
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Forbes
Companies must pay what they owe to workers - Greens
Voxy
"Companies have been lobbying the National Government to slash these protections in a review of the Employment Relations Act but their assertions that the current law is unworkable are now proven to be unfounded," said Ms Roche. "Cleaning company ...
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Top 10 mistakes in employee handbooks
Pittsburgh Business Times
A bad employee handbook can be an open invitation to a lawsuit, says Jane Lewis Volk, an employment law attorney at Meyer, Unkovic & Scott. Here are 10 tips to avoid some common mistakes: 1 Don't make it a contract: Many state "this is not a contract ...
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State's highest court backs elections board over union
Buffalo News
The majority ruled against the Civil Service Employees Union bid to bring the matter to arbitration. The court cited state election law that gives every county elections board in the state "exclusive power'' to hire and fire workers and prescribe ...
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Unclaimed Jobless Benefits Far Exceed Fraudulent Claims, Study Says
Vermont Public Radio
... reasons why people might not claim their benefits, including anxiety over state investigations into how they lost their jobs or changes in the application process that pose hurdles, said Claire McKenna, a policy analyst at the National Employment ...
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Ali Capper Partner, Stocks Farm
Freshinfo
As many readers will be aware, all farmers are forced to follow a set of mandatory employment guidelines that sit above all other UK and EU employment law. This 59-page Order is an exercise in red tape – it even comes with a 26-page guide! To say that ...
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Freshinfo
As technology blossoms, businesses protect intellectual property
STLtoday.com
His career this year landed Pickett in the downtown St. Louis offices of Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, where he focuses on business law specializing in intellectual property and nondisclosure protections, as well as agreements that prevent former ...
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CFS employee says he was harassed because he's white
Winnipeg Sun
The social worker alleges supervisors and senior staff "mistreat(ed and harass(ed)" him throughout the duration of his nearly two years employment with the agency, ending with his termination last July. The man, who spoke to the Winnipeg Sun on ...
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Pennsylvania Town Approves LGBT Non-Discrimination Law
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
Upper Merion Township became the 29th municipality in the state to pass an LGBT nondiscrimination law Oct. 18. The measure bans discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, employment and public accommodations.
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Question 3 clouds workplace policies
Cape Cod Times (subscription)
It reads, "Nothing in this law requires any accommodation of any on-site medical use of marijuana in any place of employment ... or of smoking medical marijuana in any public place". But where it gets tied up is what employees do off-site, and that's ...
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Forestry Giant Sierra Pacific Industries Settles EEOC National Origin ...
Jobmouse
Harassment based on national origin violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law also strictly prohibits retaliation against employees who report discrimination. After an investigation by EEOC Investigators Kirsten Peters and Scott ...
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Blogs8 new results for Employment Law
 
Comment - Connecticut Employment Law Blog
By Daniel Schwartz
We interrupt our normally scheduled post on a recent Second Circuit case…. Monday is an anniversary that many of us in Connecticut will long remember – the anniversary of the big October snowstorm (or "Alfred" as Channel 3 called it).
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Understanding Employment Law in Singapore: From an Employer's ...
By SME International
Date: Monday, 26th November 2012 Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm Venue: Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur This seminar is designed to help employers to.
SME International
Nonprofit Law Blog: Nonprofit Tweets of the Week - October 26, 2012
By Gene Takagi
... Permissible Activity - TheNonProfitTimes; Law For Change: More employment law updates: Recent NLRB Decisions That Affect The Non-Union Workplace; Foundation Center Atlanta: What do you do when a board member crosses the line ...
Nonprofit Law Blog
National Guard and Reserve: Your Rights in the Workplace
By Military Family
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act Overview. USERRA is an act that protects members of the military who have served or are serving by establishing specific rights and benefits for them as employees. It also sets ...
Military Family
Landmark ruling on equal pay case could ... - Contact Law Blog
By Tara Doyle
This Wednesday, at the Supreme Court in London, five senior judges ruled on a case concerning whether equal pay claims could be made in the civil court rather than being confined to Employment Tribunals, as reported by the BBC.
Contact Law Blog
Does your hiring policy exclude ex-cons? Watch out! « Raising the ...
By Briefings Media Group
Arrests. A prior arrest cannot, in and of itself, serve as the basis for excluding an individual from employment. Under the law, we are presumed innocent until proven guilty. However, employers may consider the underlying facts of the arrest.
Raising the HR Bar
Broward County becomes second county in Florida to adopt 'wage ...
By Gunster Updates
Employers must act now to ensure their employment practices are in compliance with the new law, which becomes effective January 1, 2013. Attend Gunster's November 13 complimentary, one-hour breakfast seminar to learn more.
Gunster Law Firm
Daily Kos: Legal Corporate Threat Letter
By rss@dailykos.com (detroitmechworks)
These officers are of course completely within their rights to use force, even deadly force, should they feel threatened. Of course, I am certain that none of my employees would engage in behavior that might cause these officers the slightest bit ...
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Web10 new results for Employment Law
 
Employment law roundtable planned | The Coloradoan | coloradoan ...
Employment law will be the topic in the next session of the Employers' Roundtables series in Loveland. Attorney Lee Christian will conduct the seminar from ...
www.coloradoan.com/.../Employment-law-roundtable-planne...
Myths and Realities of Employment Law - Kiplinger
The workplace is governed by a thicket of employment laws that cover everything from when people get paid to how organizations can properly administer office ...
www.kiplinger.com/.../myths-and-realities-of-employment-law...
2012 JSAHR annual employment law seminar | The Asbury Park ...
The Jersey Shore Association for Human Resources (JSAHR) is hosting the 2012 Employment Law Seminar, sponsored by Jackson Lewis LLP, Thursday, ...
www.app.com/.../2012-JSAHR-annual-employment-law-semin...
2012-13 National Student Writing Competition - U of MN Law School
Graduate students in law school (LL.M. candidates) are not eligible. Entries may address any aspect of public or private sector labor and/or employment law ...
www.law.umn.edu/.../2012-13-national-student-writing-comp...
Employment Law Made Un-Scary: FMLA | Employment Blawg
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 ...
manpowergroupblogs.us/.../employment-law-made-un-scary-f...
Go to There: Employment Law Forum: Immigration Policy | NBC Chicago
Last year, journalist Jose Antonio Vargas wrote an amazing warts-and-all look at, as he called it, his "life as an undocumented immigrant" who'd been working ...
www.nbcchicago.com/.../Go-to-There-Employment-Law-Foru...
OFCCP / TRICARE Saga: Healthcare Provider NOT a "Subcontractor"
By Chris Chrisbens In an opinion released October 23, the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) ruled Florida Hospital of Orlando's ...
www.coloradoemploymentlawblog.com/.../ofccp-tricare-saga-...
Employment Law Group Whistleblower Lawyer
The Employment Law Group® law firm is one of the Washington, DC, area's premier employment law firms representing people who have legal claims against ...
www.employmentlawgroup.net/.../whistleblower_lawsuit_agai...
The Intersection of Online Privacy and Employment Law
The Intersection of Online Privacy and Employment Law. On Nov. 3, David C. Thompson will discuss the role an individual's online presence plays in his or her ...
www.mto.com/.../The-Intersection-of-Online-Privacy-and-Em...
Employment Law Blog Carnival: The 007 Edition
The Employment Law Blog Carnival will return… Our gracious curator, Eric Meyer, will host next ...
www.ohioemployerlawblog.com/.../employment-law-blog-car...


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