Nov 28, 2012

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Hilton Long Beach settles with workers over labor violations
Contra Costa Times
Eighteen current and former employees of a Long Beach hotel have reached a $130,000 settlement over the denial of meal and rest breaks required by California law, attorneys for the workers announced Tuesday. The settlement with HEI Hotels and Resorts ...
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Dec. 7: Koegle to Discuss Employment Law at COC Chancellor's Circle Breakfast
SCVNEWS.com
With an eye toward the fast approaching new year, local attorney Brian E. Koegle will present an up-to-date overview of the ever-changing laws that affect "Doing Business in California," during the fall 2012 College of the Canyons Chancellor's Circle ...
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SCVNEWS.com
Employee requests new intermittent leave plan? You can request new certification
Business Management Daily
Employee requests new intermittent leave plan? You can request new certification. by The HR Specialist: Ohio Employment Law on November 28, 2012 12:00pm in FMLA Guidelines,Human Resources. Employees with serious medical conditions that require ...
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Domestic Workers Face Many Hardships, Report Finds (VIDEO)
Progress Illinois
Labor rights advocates are hopeful the findings of a new report will help shed some light on what they describe as the unfair treatment many domestic workers experience on the job. Labor rights advocates are hopeful the findings of a new report will ...
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Compulsory retirement age: court finds discrimination offensive and cruel
International Law Office
Israeli law contains an anomaly. On the one hand, the Equal Opportunities in Employment Law 1988 prohibits discrimination in the workplace on the grounds of age, among other things; but on the other, the Retirement Age Law 2004 provides that an ...
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Making sense of your legal requirements
National Post
Many lawyers in my field have never gone to trial. What do you think opposing counsel think when they come across them? Howard Levitt is senior partner of Levitt LLP, employment and labour lawyers. He practises employment law in eight provinces and is ...
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National Post
News: Coulson wins legal costs appeal against News Group
HRZone.co.uk
The evidence included material, which had appeared in the press and which NGN would neither confirm or deny, that former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, and various employees at the Sun newspaper had been indemnified for ...
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First legal challenge to marijuana amendment in Colorado
Examiner.com
Vance Knapp, an attorney for the Denver firm Sherman & Howard who specializes in employment law, doesn't see language in Amendment 64 that said: "Nothing in this section is intended ... to affect the ability of employers to have policies restricting ...
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Examiner.com
Government announces new employment status: 'employee owners'
International Law Office
... the proposals, the announcement is unclear as to whether the shares will be treated as granted for free (and thus subject to upfront income tax) or whether the employee will be treated as providing value in the form of his or her waiver of ...
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Always check supervisor's firing recommendation
Business Management Daily
The cat burns its paw while retrieving the chestnuts … which the monkey promptly gobbles up, leaving none for the cat. In terms of employment law, the cat's paw theory of liability draws a causal connection between the discriminatory or retaliatory ...
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US Commission on Civil Rights Announces Briefing on the Impact of Criminal ...
MarketWatch (press release)
28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it will hold a briefing on the impact of criminal background checks and the EEOC's conviction records policy on employment of black and Hispanic workers.
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Comment: Work Programme failure exposes Thatcherite IDS
Politics.co.uk
FSB welcome employment reforms and discuss the challenge of unemployment. FSB discuss how small firms are tackling unemployment and welcome the reforms to employment law. They also prepare for the party conference season with a focus on ...
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Shegerian & Associates Helps Price is Right Model Win $8.5 Million ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
LOS ANGELES — Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm specializing on employee rights, obtained a discrimination jury verdict last week for $8,546,384 in favor of its client, Brandi Cochran, in the Los Angeles Superior ...
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Battle continues over LGBT protection in Missouri's Human Rights Act
KBIA
AJ Bockleman is the executive director of PROMO, an LGBT advocacy group in Missouri that's been working to get employment and housing protections for the community since 2000. Bockleman says people are surprised it isn't already in law. PROMO has ...
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Target Not A Successor Company, BC Board Rules
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
In short, the union alleged that a portion of Zellers' business was sold or transferred to Target and that Zellers' business remained in a form requiring the preservation of the employees' collective bargaining rights. In support of its position, the ...
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European Court of Human Rights Finds That Greater Protections Are Required ...
JD Supra (press release)
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in Redfearn v United Kingdom [2012] ECHR 1878, has held that employment law in the United Kingdom does not adequately protect individuals from dismissal as a result of their political beliefs or affiliations.
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The 5 Craziest Payroll Laws You've Never Heard Of
Business 2 Community
That's not so bad until you realize they specified 'private sector employees.' Why? The Rhode Island government pays its own employees on a biweekly basis. One hopes Rhode Islanders have direct deposit. Cutting checks weekly would really cut into your ...
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Business 2 Community
Are 'damages formerly known as Wallace' still relevant?
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
While the damages formerly known as Wallace may be harder to come by, we have seen recent examples of large punitive damages awards in employment law cases, as well as cases where both forms of damages have been awarded on top of "regular" ...
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Supreme Court wrestles with crucial workplace matter
Legalbrief (subscription)
US Chief Justice John G Roberts and his Supreme Court colleagues were this week debating the standards for when a co-worker becomes more like a supervisor and thus opens the company up for damages under federal employment discrimination laws, ...
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More EEOC investigations take the 'personal' touch
Business Management Daily
More EEOC investigations take the 'personal' touch. by The HR Specialist: Employment Law on November 28, 2012 1:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. The EEOC is increasingly investigating claims of discrimination by visiting ...
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Springs gets failing grade on LGBT rights
Colorado Springs Independent (blog)
The scores were based largely on the presence of friendly laws and policies. For instance, whether the local police department had an LGBT liaison, whether there was a nondiscrimination policy for city employment, and whether the city had a Human ...
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Dealing with Complex Gender-Discrimination Issues in the Workplace
Corporate Counsel
The president also appointed new leaders of the EEOC, the Department of Labor, and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). These leaders, who have extensive experience in civil rights advocacy and enforcement, are committed to ...
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Corporate Counsel
NLRA Bars Idaho Right-To-Work Law Extensions, 9th Circ. Told
Law360 (subscription)
Law360, New York (November 27, 2012, 5:36 PM ET) -- Associations representing Idaho's local construction unions on Monday urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a trial court decision striking down two statutes aimed at expanding the state's right-to-work ...
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Millions of Americans set to lose unemployment benefits during holiday season
Deseret News
Unemployment insurance reduced the poverty rate on families receiving it by 40 percent," according to research by the National Employment Law Project. While the number of Americans in poverty grew by 2.3 million from 2010 to 2011, unemployment ...
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Deseret News
Industrial Rights Ballot: Law Outlined
Police Oracle
He said in the video called "Industrial rights ballot: the facts": "For them (workers) employment law only provides basic safeguards, for example a minimum wage or the right to paid holidays. "Of course, many employees enjoy better terms and conditions ...
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Police Oracle
SPARC sees Children Act 1991 ambiguous
Pakistan Observer
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - Quetta—The Protection of the Child Rights (SPARC), Tuesday expressing concern over Employment of Children Act 1991 demanded that ambiguities, anomolies and contradictions in the said Act should be rectified.
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Davis Polk, Wachtell, Weil, Freshfields: Business of Law
Businessweek
New York real estate partner David Herman led Weil's team which also included partners Michael Bond, real estate;, Raymond Gietz, mergers and acquisitions; Scott Sontag, tax; and Michael Kam, employment. Hogan Lovells partner Bruce Gilchrist led the ...
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Panel to educate Newton employers on new transgender law
Wicked Local
Deval Patrick signed in November 2011, makes it illegal to discriminate against transgender people in the areas of employment, housing, public education and credit lending. The bill also expands the state's hate crimes laws to include violence ...
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Consulting contract OK'd
NUjournal
Madden Galanter Hansen, whose attorneys specialize in employment and labor law, has represented Brown County for the past 14 years. Commissioners approved an initial contract with the firm Nov.4, 1998 and renewed annually through 2012. Rates in ...
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Blogs5 new results for Employment Law
 
Supreme Court of Virginia Defines Damages Calculation for Breach ...
By Littler
GP, as subcontractor, provided the programming services of Sreenath Gajulapalli (the sole employee and manager of GP). Accenture was ... Littler Mendelson is the largest U.S.-based law firm exclusively devoted to representing management.
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
Termination for Taking Dying Mom to Las Vegas May Violate the FMLA
By marykeating
The law requires that the person taking leave is needed to care for her mother's needs, including basic hygiene and nutritional needs. The fact that they traveled and had fun did not change the fact that the employee gave her mother medicine, ...
Maryland Employment Law Developments
WHD News Release: US Labor Department sues Boston Hides ...
BOSTON — Citing "knowing, deliberate and intentional" violations of federal wage and hour law, the U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Boston Hides & Furs Ltd. and company officials seeking at least $500,000 in back wages ...
DOL News Releases
Redundancy law | Kiwiblog
By David Farrar
If the bill becomes law, every employee would be entitled to at least four weeks' notice of their redundancy. They would also be entitled to redundancy compensation of four weeks' pay for the first year of employment plus two weeks' pay for ...
Kiwiblog
Court OK's Change in Workweek to Minimize Overtime : Minnesota ...
By Krista J. Griffith
Blog Pic - Timecard.jpg The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Minnesota) ruled that the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") does not prevent an employer from altering its designated workweek to minimize the potential for employee ...
Minnesota Employment Law Report

Web11 new results for Employment Law
 
Los Angeles Employment Lawyer | Employment Law FAQ
Employment Law FAQ. No matter whether you are dealing with discrimination, harassment or another employment-related legal issue, you can be confident ...
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Employment Law - Baldwin - Herald Community Newspapers
Q: I was convicted for participation in the burglary of a liquor store when I was 18 years old. Can this be held against me when I apply for a job? A: Whether your ...
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Employment Law - Practice Areas - Donati Law Firm, LLP
Donati Law only represents employees, not employers. From hourly employees to managers and executives, the firm's goal is to provide sound advice and ...
www.donatilaw.com/practice-areas/employment-law/
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RLG employment law attorney David Weissman: E-mail lessons can ...
"First of all, if your employer is the Taliban, then a misdirected email is probably the least of your problems," quipped David Weissman, RLG employment law ...
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Transgender Employees and Tenants in California: Rights and ...
Know Your Rights: Transgender Employment Law · Tips for Lawyers Working with Transgender Clients and Coworkers · Tips for Working with Transgender ...
transgenderlawcenter.org/.../transgender-employees-and-tenan...
Careers in Employment Law Panel Discussion & Networking ...
The Women's Bar Association of the. District of Columbia invites you to attend: Careers in Employment Law Panel Discussion & Networking Reception ...
www.gwlawcareers.org/?p=298
Employment Law - Washington State Independent Auto Dealers ...
Washington State Independent Auto Dealers Association. RSS Twitter Facebook LinkedIn. Currently viewing the category: "Employment Law" ...
www.wsiada.com/category/employment/
California lodge settles sexual harassment claim | San Diego ...
California has strict laws against sexual harassment in the workplace, but unfortunately the treatment still occurs. Acc.
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Employment Law Forum | Facebook
ML Fabian Okechi Ogbuokiri Barbara DeMarco. Employment Law Forum for Owners, Operators, and Directors of NJ Licensed Child Care Centers 8:30 – 9:15 ...
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