Oct 8, 2012

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George Osborne: workers of the world unite...and give up your employment rights
Telegraph.co.uk
The Chancellor told delegates: "Today we set out proposals for a radical change to employment law. It's a voluntary three way deal. You the company: give your employees shares in the business. You the employee: replace your old rights of unfair ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
McQueary case could affect employment law
Chambersburg Public Opinion
McQueary case could affect employment law. It's possible that former Penn State assistant football coach Mike McQueary's civil suit against the university could break ground in employment law. McQueary filed suit against the university and seeks more ...
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New 'owner-employees' will give up their employment rights
PersonnelToday.com
Employees will be asked to give up some of their employment rights in exchange for shares in their company and tax-free gains, under a new "owner-employee" employment contract announced by the Government today. In his speech to the Conservative ...
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'Employee shares for rights' Q&A: what the proposals will mean
The Guardian
What has George Osborne announced? New employees will be able to exchange some of their employment rights for shares in the business they work for, any gains on which will be exempt from capital gains tax (CGT).
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The Guardian
Real Unemployment Rate Numbers Tell Only Half the Story
PolicyMic
In September, a report from the National Employment Law Project showed that many of the jobs that pay between $13.84 and $21.13 an hour have been replaced with jobs that pay between $7.69 and $13.83 an hour. The questions that have not been asked ...
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PolicyMic
Labor to help more prisoners into work
ABC Online
ACT Labor is promising to expand paid work opportunities for prisoners, if re-elected on October 20. It is part of a raft of legislative changes Labor wants to make if it is returned to power. Attorney-General Simon Corbell says almost $1 million would ...
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Miller & Martin Appoints New Leadership To Firm's Labor And Employment ...
The Chattanoogan
Mr. Bode was recently named "Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Employment Law/Management Representation in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He is entering his 28th year of practice, devoted exclusively to the representation of ...
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Plan to trade job rights for shares
expressandstar.com
The report on employment law drawn up for the Government last year by entrepreneur Adrian Beecroft identified workers' protection against unfair dismissal and rights to redundancy payoffs as key factors making companies reluctant to take on extra staff.
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Birmingham city centre law firm pledges to tackle youth unemployment
Birmingham Mail
A LAW firm has pledged to plough tens of thousands of pounds into tackling youth unemployment after becoming a patron of charity the Prince's Trust. Broad Street-based DBS Law is set to invest £100,000 into the charity's Enterprise programme, which ...
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Part-time employment fuels drop in jobless rate
Buffalo News
Britt Zaragoza is among a growing army of part-time workers helping to drive down the jobless rate in the United States. The 48-year-old single mother found employment as a receptionist at a Columbus, Ohio, law firm in August after searching for two years.
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Fired for Facebook posts? NLRB rulings draw lines
WLS
"We want to be sure employees know that under federal labor law, they have a right to discuss their wages and working conditions with each other, and to join together to try to improve them. Those rights have existed since the National Labor Relations ...
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WLS
CASE OF THE WEEK: Employment
The Lawyer
The effect of the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000 s.4(4) was that a member of an LLP who would have been a partner under the Partnership Act 1890 could be neither an employee nor a worker under the Employment Rights Act 1996 s.230. Judy Stone ...
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The Lawyer
Legal Aid Bureau celebrates milestone
Buffalo Law Journal
... the staff handles an extensive amount of cases involving unemployment earnings for people who have been denied benefits. Also, mortgage foreclosure work done in conjunction with Legal Services for the Elderly and the Western New York Law Center.
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States Struggle With Unemployment Funds Still in the Red
Stateline
"The states have a fundamental problem: They're not funding these trust funds appropriately," Mike Evangelist, of the National Employment Law Project, says. "You just keep digging the hole deeper, you keep losing more. It is a compounding problem." ...
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Know your rights in the workplace
Metro.us
Lewis Maltby is the former director of employment rights for the ACLU, and founded the legal advocacy nonprofit National Workrights Institute in 2009. Recently, he authored "Can They Do That? Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace." We caught ...
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Meet the Candidates: David Lerma - Supervisor District 5
Yuma Sun
Employment: Current: Legal Professional Services, U.S. Pavidale Enterprises and Lerma Enterprises, administrator and chief accountant, executive director and president; previous: founder and former president of El Popular Magazine, former general ...
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Double jeopardy in employment
Daily News
The law governing employment matters specifically the Employment and Labour Relations Act No 26 of 2004 has in unambiguous words stated under Section 37 (5) that no disciplinary action in form of penalty, termination or dismissal shall lie upon an ...
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Daily News
Attorney general candidates Bucy, Fox disagree on job's role, qualifications
The Missoulian
Education: Graduated from Hardin High School, 1976; bachelor's degree in geology, University of Montana, 1981; law degree, UM, 1987. Past employment: Vice president and general counsel, Mountain West Bank, Helena, 1999-2003; acting division ...
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Legal View: No ban for doctors
Khaleej Times
If your contract provides any compensation in case of termination, then, it will be implemented, otherwise, it will be decided according to Article 115 of the UAE Labour Law which states: "If the employer has terminated an employment contract with a ...
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Khaleej Times
Stormont facing Freedom of Information legal battle
Belfast Newsletter
However, a retired civil servant who asked for information about the law which exempts Roman Catholic schools from fair employment legislation has now filed for leave for judicial review after more than 300 days passed without a response – far beyond ...
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Belfast Newsletter
The Honigman law firm started small in Kalamazoo, but is getting big results ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Real estate law (along with litigation, and labor and employment law) involves about 5 percent of the staff and accounts for about 5 percent of revenues. Litigation work is involved in all those areas. Attorneys from the firm's four other Michigan ...
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
Unpacking Employment Equity, or Consider Boycotts Carefully
AllAfrica.com
Those who feel the Employment Equity Act guarantees them top posts they are not qualified for, are wrong too. The Act is intended to level the playing field and the law is clear on how it should be applied. The Act neither is a punitive measure nor is ...
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'Textual' harassment? OMG! Develop policy B4 you face lawsuit
Business Management Daily
Many states have updated their harassment laws to include harassment that takes place through the use of cellphones. Such prohibitions are not expressly included in federal or state employment discrimination and harassment statutes, but recent lawsuits ...
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Letter to Members of the Constituent Assembly
AllAfrica.com
The provision also states that "child labor is prohibited until the age of mandatory education and in employment that does not suit their age." This provision is not consistent with Egypt's obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child ...
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Michigan Unions Seek Constitutional Protection
Stateline
The legislation that has irked Michigan unions includes changes to teacher tenure, new rules governing who is laid off first when the economy tanks, and a law tied up in court that prohibits school districts from deducting union fees from school ...
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Osborne's "employee-owner" plan is Beecroft through the back-door
New Statesman (blog)
The last time we heard changes to employment law of this magnitude was the publication of the Beecroft report, the raft of employment law reforms suggested in May this year. The report, when published (ahead of schedule, due to leaks), was ridiculed ...
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Brown, Goldstein & Levy lawyers named 'Best Lawyers in America'
Daily Record (subscription)
C. Christopher Brown was selected by his peers for inclusion in "Best Lawyers" in the First Amendment Litigation and Employment Law (Individuals) categories. Chris has been listed in Best Lawyers since 1995. Melvin J. Sykes was selected by his peers ...
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More Americans Working Part-Time; Unemployment Declines
San Francisco Chronicle
The 48-year-old single mother found employment as a receptionist at a Columbus, Ohio, law firm in August after searching for two years. Not working a full day gives her the flexibility to take care of her 10-year-old son and pursue a career in catering.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
... Law Firm said Meghan T. Hayes has joined as an associate. Ms. Hayes, a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and recipient of a certificate in intellectual property and technology law, interned with Allegheny County Court of Common ...
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One In Four Small Business Owners Lack Health Care Insurance: Report
Huffington Post
Since the law contains dual mandates that most individuals must obtain health insurance coverage and most employers must offer it by 2014, "the effect on employment is probably zero or close to it," said Amitabh Chandra, a professor of public policy at ...
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U. sued by 2 employees for discrimination
The Daily Princetonian
One current and one former University employee have separately sued the University in U.S. District Court alleging employment discrimination, but both cases may face dismissal, according to federal court records. One of the cases, Cunliffe-Martin v ...
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Seeking employment, youngsters breach security at J&K Assembly
Zee News
Omar Abdullah, however, admitted that unemployment was an issue to be addressed, apart from law and order, as there were six lakh unemployed youths in the state. The incident was not linked to the recent visit to Kashmir by Congress general secretary ...
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'One-on-one' Nyasa Times exclusive interview: Boniface Chimpango
Nyasa Times
... offering a whole range of legal services including, but not limited to, UK Immigration and Human Rights law, Employment and Labour Relations law, Family law, Debt Recovery, Landlord and Tenant law, Corporate and Commercial law and Conveyancing." ...
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Nyasa Times
Roundup of Supreme Court Employment Cases -- Right Here!
JD Supra (press release)
(Or as juicy and entertaining as employment law can get.) But summer is over, and it's time to buckle down. Girl texting at school - fall.jpg. "I h8 school!" The Supreme Court of the United States (aka "SCOTUS") began its new term this past Monday, and ...
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Foxconn Labor Disputes Disrupt IPhone Output for 2nd Time
Bloomberg
"Ever since the suicides at the Shenzhen plant threw the spotlight on that facility, Foxconn has done a lot of effort to improve the situation there," said Geoffrey Crothall, a director at rights group China Labor Bulletin. "Shenzhen is very much a ...
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Blogs7 new results for Employment Law
 
Osborne: Employees, exchange your rights for shares
By NewsHound
Mr Osborne said the plan, which would be voluntary for employees and firms, was "a radical change to employment law". So, never mind the fact that you could lose your job with no rights of redress. You would have spent lots of money buying ...
Liberal Democrat Voice
Pending Supreme Court Cases That HR and the C-Suite Should ...
By Eric B. Meyer
Although not chock full of pending employment-law cases, this term will see several important issues decided which could affect your workplace. Below, I have a collected a series of links to stories on these cases: New Supreme Court Term ...
TLNT
State of the unions: Are UK trade unions struggling for relevance in ...
By Michael Carty
Could opposition to radical employment law reform move up the union agenda? It is possible that unions will take an increasingly concerted stand on the Coalition Government's radical employment law reform agenda, XpertHR reports.
XpertHR - Employment Intelligence
2012 Year In Review - Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum
By kevin-vonkamecke
In addition to our traditional areas of interest such as Tort Law, Insurance, Criminal Law, Estate Planning, and Employment Law; this year's review will also address some interesting new topics. Attorney Susan Ziel will discuss recent ...
Indiana Continuing Legal Education...
Osborne – workers of the world unite - Simple Living in Suffolk
By ermine
I once saw a spreadsheet of departmental salaries where they had us permies and the salaries of the contractors. The contractors were typically on three times the gross salary of permies. They have no employment rights, no pension, ...
Simple Living in Suffolk
The Jobs Numbers: Never Mind the Quantity, Check the Quality
By contact@newmediajournal.us
During the recovery, job gains have been concentrated in lower-wage occupations, which grew nearly three times as fast as mid-wage and higher-wage occupations, according to a recent study by the National Employment Law Project.
New Media Journal
Comments - Law Professor Blogs Network - Typepad
By Adjunct LawProfs
The United States Department of State terminated the employment of John R. Miller, Jr., a United States citizen working abroad, solely because he turned sixty-five years old.* The Department contended that it was free to terminate employees ...
Adjunct Law Prof Blog

Web3 new results for Employment Law
 
Growth in Employment Law Practice Predicted by Peer Monitor ...
News: The growth in the Employment law sector is also demonstrated by the huge percentage of partner positions open in Employment law.Pasadena, CA ...
news.yahoo.com/growth-employment-law-practice-predicted-...
Ban the Box - National Employment Law Project
75 Maiden Lane, Suite 601, New York, NY 10038 ▫ 212-285-3025 ▫ www.nelp.org . National Employment Law Project. For Immediate Release: October 4, 2012 ...
www.nelp.org/page/-/.../PR-Ban-the-Box-Momentum.pdf?...1
Employment Law: Selected Federal and State Statutes, 2012 Edition
Employment Law: Selected Federal and State Statutes, 2012 Edition. Steven L. Willborn, Judge Harry A. Spencer Professor of Law, University of Nebraska ...
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