Nov 3, 2012

Google Alert - Employment Law

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EEOC accuses Senor Frog's, Altres of violating federal employment law
Bizjournals.com
A federal lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges Senor Frog's and Hawaii-based staffing firm Altres Inc. violated federal employment law by allowing the sexual harassment of female employees at the Waikiki bar and ...
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The Election, the Workplace, and the Employment Law Issues That Arise
Connecticut Law Tribune
When it comes to politics in the workplace, "discrimination is the number one danger," said Dana Howells, a senior labor and employment lawyer at Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles. "Politics tends to get intertwined with ethnic, racial, age, religious, and ...
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Connecticut Law Tribune
Sandy victims can get unemployment help
CNN
To qualify for the funds, people must be unemployed as a direct result of the storm and be ineligible for traditional unemployment benefits, according to the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. Residents of New York City and 14 counties ...
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Who Got Jobs During the Obama Presidency?
Right Side News
A new analysis of government data shows that two-thirds of the net increase in employment since President Obama took office has gone to immigrant workers, primarily legal immigrants. Although the level of new immigration overall has fallen, legal ...
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When Is Termination the Right Step to Take?
Texas Lawyer
The toughest decision that lawyers, in-house or otherwise, help clients make is whether to impose the employment-law equivalent of capital punishment: termination of an employee. While clients look to attorneys for counsel, sometimes they really want ...
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Employers Cannot Keep Employees From Voting, or Threaten Employees to ...
U.S. Politics Today
Under Pennsylvania law, an employer who stops an employee from voting or attempts to coerce that employee into voting a certain way is criminally liable under the Election Code, Title 25, Section 3547. In addition, Cordes said, an employee who was ...
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Key Supreme Court cases for employers to watch
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
(Frank C. Morris Jr. heads the Labor and Employment practice in the Washington, DC office and chairs Epstein Becker Green's Disability Law Group. He has briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. Jordan B. Schwartz is an associate in the Labor ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
NLRB sets new limits on your off-duty employee access rules
Business Management Daily
NLRB sets new limits on your off-duty employee access rules. by The HR Specialist: Employment Law on November 2, 2012 3:00pm in Employment Law,Human Resources. Does your organization set restrictions on when and where off-duty employees can ...
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Employee? Contractor? For taxes, it matters
Financial Post (blog)
This is one of the most litigated issues in tax law, with decisions handed down regularly based on facts in cases that can best be described as shades of grey. For a business, being able to classify a worker as an independent contractor instead of an ...
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Financial Post (blog)
Handicapped man fired for limping, typing too slowly
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law on November 3, 2012 8:00am in Firing,Human Resources. A former employee in Bank of America's (BoA) mortgage office in Pittsburgh is suing the bank, claiming he was fired because of his disability.
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Judge Muller Reversed In Legal Malpractice Dismissal
North Country Gazette
Jack Hall Plumbing & Heating Inc. of Glens Falls had initially sued Judge & Duffy, alleging that the law firm, specifically Judge, had committed legal malpractice by negligently advising the business in connection with the termination of an employee.
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Hearing set in suit against Thomas Jefferson law school
North County Times
SAN DIEGO — A class-action lawsuit against the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego contending the school put out fraudulent employment statistics for recent graduates is headed for a key hearing this month as both sides slug it out in court.
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Mackinac Center expounds on state proposals
Midland Daily News
James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy; F. Vincent Vernuccio, labor policy director; Patrick Wright, director of the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation; and Michael LaFaive, director of fiscal policy, spoke during the MIballot2012 webinar ...
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WORKPLACE: Job fair for veterans Friday
Press-Enterprise
Seyfarth Shaw, one of the nation's largest law firms that specializes in employment issues, recently put out a sort of checklist for how workplace issues jive with election-year politics. For example, a boss can tell her or his staffers that "I believe ...
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US economy adds 171000 jobs, but unemployment rate rises to 7.9%
Worcester Telegram
A report from the National Employment Law Project released in August found that while the majority of jobs lost in the downturn were mid-wage jobs, the majority of the jobs created since then have been lower-wage ones. There have now been 25 straight ...
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OPINION – Ireland's public sector needs greater direction on legal ...
Siliconrepublic.com
In the case of a US company providing cloud-based email services to an Irish organisation, there is an immediate change in the legal rights of the individual employee. The US Patriot Act gives US law-enforcement authorities the right to investigate and ...
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Siliconrepublic.com
EEO Roundup: GINA Cases in the Forecast?
Bloomberg BNA
During a recent employment law seminar, Elizabeth Grossman, the regional attorney for EEOC's New York office, mentioned that the agency soon will become more active in GINA litigation, even hinting that the commission may have some GINA enforcement ...
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Gutless tweaks to vulnerable worker provisions
National Business Review
And an employment law expert says the unpopular clause will continue to be a playground for lawyers and academics who thrive on uncertainty and chaos in the law. Labour Minister Kate Wilkinson has made businesses with fewer than 20 staff exempt from ...
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Michael appointed associate
This is Nottingham
Based in the East Midlands since 2006, Michael specialises in advising and representing employers on employment and HR laws, in particular, employment-related litigation. At the Nottingham office, Michael will be working with employment law partner ...
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Neal Gerber loses key labor attorney
Crain's Chicago Business
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP is losing the chair of its labor and employment practice group, another blow to a law firm that has shrunk by 20-some percent since 2008 and one that could encourage more attrition. David Ritter, 54, a member of Neal Gerber ...
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Rights of bankrupt employees limited - 2 November 2012
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Federal Magistrates Court recently found that an undischarged bankrupt was unable to seek compensation or a financial penalty against a former employer for unlawful dismissal, but was able to seek reinstatement instead. In Brown v Premier Pet [2012 ...
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PMI Shows Legal Services Demands Slump for Another Quarter
JDJournal.com
Supporting a continuing trend in recent times, labor and employment still continues to experience growth and demand grew up to 2.5% in the third quarter. Even though for the past two-three years labor has been experiencing strong growth, the volume of ...
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White rights downgraded, Solidarity says
News24
In addition, Herman said: "The Employment Equity Act makes it clear that you cannot have a quota system." Hermann said this impinged on people's rights to equality and dignity. Usually, the next step would be an application to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
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Employment Law Update – Change to High Income Threshold
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Employees who have been given a written guarantee of annual earnings are not eligible to receive Modern Award entitlements, but only if their income is below the HIT. If the HIT has moved above any employees' earnings (as properly calculated under the ...
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Three running in Cheshire District 16
The Keene Sentinel
Intend to file a dispute resolution bill that obligates management to negotiate within a time frame all bargaining agreements with public employee unions. The State Commissioner for Labor testified the current labor law in the state does not compel ...
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Commentary: Time off to vote comes with job
Houston Chronicle
But in this world of 12-hour shifts and 9/80 schedules, complying with state election law can get complicated. It turns out that if any of that two-hour block of time falls within the employee's regular workday, the employee cannot be docked wages for ...
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Detroit Sugar Law Lead Attorney Tony Paris: Emergency Manager Law ...
Michronicleonline
Sugar Law is a national non-profit organization that specializes in providing legal support and advocacy for working people and their communities. While Paris normally focuses on workers' rights, especially plant closings, mass layoffs, unemployment ...
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Employment Report Beats Expectations
The Takeaway
Fun Fact: "Proposal" (no law yet) for 2-yr reprieve on illegal immigrants b/w 16 and 31 years old that requires registering with I.C.E., which is really a way to "smoke 'em out" and find them for future deportation after 2-yr reprieve has expired ...
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LEGAL HELPLINE
Gulf Times
ANSWER: According to Article 270 of the Qatar Penal Laws, anyone who is found drunk on a main street or anyone who disturbs others due to intoxication will be convicted to no more than six months and to a fine of QR3,000 or to any one of these two ...
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Divergent Labor Markets: Private Gains, Public Losses
Capital Public Radio News
But by the time that stimulus bill was passed and signed into law in February 2009, more than 2.2 million more jobs had disappeared. And the bill's effect on private sector employment has been debated ever since. However, the next year, the number of ...
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Demand for legal services drops for second straight quarter
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
There was waning demand for all practice areas except labor and employment, which grew 2.5 percent. Demand for corporate work was down 1 percent, while demand for litigation fell by 1.3 percent in the quarter. Geographically, New York was the report's ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Fisher & Phillips Earns Another First-Tier Ranking from U.S. News - Best ...
PR.com (press release)
A further 16 of the firm's offices received Metropolitan First Tier Rankings, while Fisher & Phillips received National First Tier Rankings for Labor Law, Employment Law and Labor & Employment Litigation. Denver, CO, November 03, 2012 --(PR.com ...
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Sunday trading law 'will be reviewed'
Guernsey Press and Star (subscription)
... Employment is committed to a full review of Sunday trading this term, its minister has assured doubters. Kevin Stewart was forced to make the promise after a requete submitted by Deputy Mike Hadley for a trial 12-month suspension of the law was ...
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Guernsey Press and Star (subscription)
'Is There Free Speech at Work?'
Human Resource Executive Online (blog)
Bussing starts off with an interesting and perhaps little-known fact, especially outside HR and employment-law circles: "Employees don't have a Constitutional right to free speech or freedom of expression at work." It's only in the murky sea of social ...
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Human Resource Executive Online (blog)
A Commendable (and Courageous) Comment Award
The American Lawyer
Another example of the influence that large law firms exert over NALP is the evolution of the rules governing employment offers—including the powerlessness of students when a big firm unilaterally rescinds a previously accepted one. But NALP's ...
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Blogs6 new results for Employment Law
 
2012 Year End Amendment Checklist | King & Spalding - JDSupra
By King & Spalding
Puerto Rico Plans that cover residents of Puerto Rico must be amended to comply with changes required under Puerto Rico law. Favorable Determination Letter ... for a favorable determination letter. *Non-lawyer Employee Benefits Consultant ...
JD Supra Labor & Employment Law
A Labor Paradigm for Human Trafficking « UCLA Law Review
By LRIRE
Although human trafficking has gained unprecedented national and international attention and condemnation over the past decade, the legal instruments developed to combat this phenomenon have thus far proved insufficient. In particular ...
UCLA Law Review
Hurricane Sandy: Board of Education Discretion in Issuing ...
By National Law Forum
Jason S. Long of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP recently had an article, Hurricane Sandy: Board of Education Discretion in Issuing Alternative Work Schedules on Snow Days, featured in The National Law Review: With the Hurricane Sandy knocking at our front doors, now seems like a good time to update ... [and] the time lost by the closing of schools is counted as days of employment and as meeting a part of the requirements of the minimum term of one hundred eighty days of instruction.
The National Law Forum
The gender fault-line in Japan | East Asia Forum
By Ayako Kano
The; following year equal pay for equal work and maternity leave were made mandatory. The Equal Opportunity Employment Law (EEOL) of 1985 marked the beginning of the second period of gender policy making and coincided with Japan's ...
East Asia Forum
Japanese Business Practices, Start-Ups, and Innovation ...
By Steve Nguyen
Lifetime employment is not a legal requirement for Japanese companies, but a custom that developed after World War II. The strict Japanese labor laws, which make it very difficult to lay personnel off, supported the establishment of this ...
Workplace Psychology
Feminist Legal Theory
By Jihan A. Kahssay
These services include law enforcement, sexual violence counselors, legal services, and government employment agencies. Great psychological barriers, including fear and severe trauma, id. at 41, also hold at bay reports of abuse. Id. at 32.
Feminist Legal Theory

Web4 new results for Employment Law
 
Dirk Stemerman: New California employment laws - MontereyHerald ...
Q: I am a human resources manager for a retail store. Are there any new employment laws that I should be aware of? A: Yes, there are several new laws that ...
www.montereyherald.com/.../dirk-stemerman-new-california-e...
Employment Law Basics: Properly Handling Independent Contractors
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 ...
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Employment law California - Statute of limitations twist - Avvo.com
Employment law California - Statute of limitations twist -- In Oct 2010, I was terminated by a VP at a tech company. I vigorously contested the termination with HR ...
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Employment Law Attorney in Corona | Corona Employment Lawyer
Whether you are an employer or an employee, a Corona employment lawyer could represent you in cases involving wages, safety and benefits. Contact our firm ...
www.claysonlaw.com/Practice-Areas/Employment-Law.aspx


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