Nov 23, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

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Bodies flaunting labor laws rapped
China Daily
The Community Care and Nursing Home Workers General Union on Thursday accused some government-aided social welfare organizations of violating labor laws by having staff to work on Sundays and to perform other overtime work without reasonable ...
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Is position or 'character of employment' still relevant?
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
For decades, well-informed HR professionals and employment lawyers have relied upon the "Bardal factors" when assessing an employee's entitlement to notice of dismissal. We have known better than to rely upon the mythical rule of thumb of "one month ...
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Horrific policy ditches Labor's principle of equal opportunity for asylum-seekers
The Australian
I've never liked the Coalition's tough international law-breaking approach to asylum-seeker policies, but in recent years Labor has matched, if not exceeded, the Coalition's lack of humanitarianism when it comes to refugees, not to mention the ...
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Personal Grievance
Indian Weekender
If an employer has not followed the correct procedure or did not have a genuine reason for an employee's dismissal, under employment law, an employee may have a personal grievance claim of unfair dismissal. The Employment Relations Act gives all ...
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Indian Weekender
Security guard unjustifiably sacked over bipolar disorder
New Zealand Herald
An employment law expert says the case raises difficult questions for people suffering from mental illness - and highlights the tensions between an employee's rights and an employer's obligation to provide a safe workplace. The man, who APNZ has chosen ...
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12 companies with most minimum-wage workers
MarketWatch
Two-thirds of low-wage workers — those paid less than $10 an hour — are employed by large corporations with at least 100 employees, reports the National Employment Law Project. Based on NELP's "Big Business, Corporate Profits, and the Minimum Wage ...
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Top court to consider workplace harassment rules
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Nov 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a case that could determine when a company is liable for harassment by its employees. The case turns on the definition of a single word - "supervisor" - under a federal civil ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Recent Case Law On Collective Consultation
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
... law over whether this obligation is first triggered when the employer "contemplates" redundancies, or whether the trigger is later – at the point when the commercial decision which may lead to redundancies has already been made.In this case, the ...
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Bank cases illustrate rise in wage-and-hour lawsuits
Winston-Salem Journal
"There's definitely a trend," said Catherine K. Ruckelshaus, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, a New York nonprofit that promotes workers' rights. Law firms representing both employers and workers point to the large number of ...
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El Nacho Grande chain faces wage-and-hour lawsuit
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Ohio Employment Law on November 22, 2012 12:00pm in Human Resources,Overtime Labor Laws. The El Nacho Grande chain, with restaurants in Cincinnati and Dayton, faces a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit after Wage and Hour ...
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Going Global: Legal Issues For Employers
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Regardless of the reason, more employers are doing business in other countries, requiring them to become familiar with foreign employment laws and practices. American employers may be surprised to learn that many commonly accepted employment ...
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COBRA 101: Employers' obligations under the law
Business Management Daily
The law requires you to notify your health plan administrator within 30 days if one of these qualifying events occurs: an employee's termination, death, reduced hours of employment, entitlement to Medicare or the company's bankruptcy. (It's up to the ...
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Employees' off-duty activities face more scrutiny
Denver Business Journal
Colorado's "employment-at-will" legal doctrine means an employer can, in theory, fire an employee for anything. Employment issues get murkier when they involve an employee's off-duty activities. And those activities are getting increasing attention ...
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Boeing Says It Will Deny Equal Pension Benefits to Gay Married Couples in ...
Towleroad
Hundreds of private companies offer survivor pension benefits regardless of the local state law or federal law. When the employee selects the joint and survivor payout option for the pension, the payout is reduced by actuarial tables to reflect that ...
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Robert Reich: Why you shouldn't shop at Walmart on Friday
AMERICAblog (blog)
A union is the only way to give workers any leverage against a billion dollar company so that the employees have a chance at decent wages, decent hours and actually making the company comply with labor law. However, this is not a demonstration in ...
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Human rights task force split on need for investigative commission
The Daily Progress
The most frequent form of discrimination was employment-related. At the task force's Nov. 14 meeting, Assistant City Manager David Ellis ticked off a list of possible characteristics of a human rights commission and asked members to raise their hands ...
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UK must protect employees from dismissal on grounds of political affiliation ...
Lexology (registration)
In Redfearn v the United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights held that the U.K. is in breach of Article 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights by failing to adequately protect employees dismissed on the grounds of their political ...
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CIPD questions Government proposals on dismissals
PersonnelToday.com
The aim of the Government's proposals, announced as part of its Red Tape Challenge review of employment law in November 2011, is to encourage employers to opt for settlement agreements where possible in order to avoid the costs and stresses of a ...
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How to be the bearer of bad news
Montreal Gazette
... then avoid battles for alleged violations of maternity leave provisions. Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt LLP, (levittllp.ca) employment and labour lawyers. He practises employment law in eight provinces and is author of The Law of Hiring ...
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An attack on core of workers' rights
This is Somerset
He went on to say that he was fully behind such proposals, and indeed seemed even more reactionary, in that he countered by saying that employees should be subject to contract law, rather than employment law. In essence, the employee, having signed the ...
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National Women's Law Center study: Pregnant teens need better school support
TheReporter.com
Fatima Goss Graves, the center's vice president of education and employment, says offering pregnant teens extra support would ultimately save taxpayers money by helping them become financially independent and not dependent on welfare. But budget cuts ...
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Employers wrestle with limits on workplace investigations
Sacramento Business Journal
Blanket rules that prohibit workers from discussing an ongoing investigation into an employee complaint violate worker rights under the National Labor Relations Act, the board ruled. The decision applies to union and nonunion settings alike. Employment ...
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Shegerian & Associates Helps Price is Right Model Win $8546384 ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carney Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, obtained a discrimination jury verdict Monday for $8,546,384 ...
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School board 'right' on Right to Know issue
Nashua Telegraph
Conclusion: The School Board deserves praise for adhering to the Right to Know Law and insisting the discussion be public. ... It does not involve a personnel or employment issue, one of the few reasons such circumstances can be discussed in secret.
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Liberal Capitalism, Crony Capitalism and Lumpen Development
AllAfrica.com
Employment law must be reduced to minimal regulations ensuring the morality of human relations between employer and employee, with trade union rights limited and controlled to this effect. Wage hierarchies resulting from private and free negotiations ...
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Blogs2 new results for Employment Law
 
Employment law: PM says economically speaking, we're at war. So ...
By Peta Fluendy
David Cameron told the CBI this week that we should consider ourselves, economically speaking, at war. So what employment laws will be abolished next to give companies the "more buccaneering, deal-making, hungry spirit," he is after?
FMWF
A Brief Introduction To Labor Law Poster Requirements In The US
By Donna
Have a general question about employment law? Want to share a story? I welcome all comments and questions. I can't give legal advice here about specific situations but will be glad to discuss general issues and try to point you in the right ...
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home

Web7 new results for Employment Law
 
Dodd-Frank and Employment Law | Business Insurance
Developments and trends affecting buyers of specialty insurance lines, including D&O, E&O, employment practices liability, cyber risk, marine and transportation, ...
www.businessinsurance.com/article/20121114/.../121119954
Burden shifting framework of McDonnell-Douglas improperly ...
Employer's "honest belief" employee abused medical leave no defense A California court of appeals, in Richey v AutoNation, Inc, reversed the judgment a.
www.employmentlawdaily.com/.../burden-shifting-framework...
Survey finds morale high among workers | Employment Law Daily
The mood around the office water cooler is generally positive, new research suggests. In an Accountemps survey, nearly four in 10 (39 percent) workers.
www.employmentlawdaily.com/.../survey-finds-morale-high-a...
read more - Kansas Employment Law Blog
Why, you ask, am I re-hashing this soap opera in an employment law blog? It's simple: this story reaffirms that even smart people can be incredibly stupid when it ...
www.kansasemploymentlawblog.com/index2.cfm?id=326
Litigation Associate: Employment Law at Teplitsky, Colson LLP in ...
Teplitsky, Colson LLP is hiring! View and apply for the Litigation Associate: Employment Law Job at Teplitsky, Colson LLP in Toronto (Yonge & Dundas)
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Labor & Employment Law Section Luncheon
Come and network with members of the Labor & Employment Law Section. " Employment Lawyer's Guide To Appellate Briefing, Oral Argument and Motions ...
https://m360.atlantabar.org/event.aspx?eventID=64522...0
employment law « Common Good
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a special call for internship applications in the field of labor and employment law. For candidates with a legal ...
commongooduw.org/tag/employment-law/


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