Apr 12, 2013

Google Alert - Employment Law

News34 new results for Employment Law
 
Undue political pressure violates process, expert on labor law says
Bangor Daily News
LEWISTON — An expert on unemployment labor law said Wednesday that any undue political pressure exerted on the unemployment appeal hearing process violates the statutory fair hearing process. "The whole premise of the system," said Rick McHugh, ...
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Saudi labour law: Ravi to discuss fallout with states
Manoramaonline
New Delhi: Worried over possible job losses to Indians in Saudi Arabia due to a new labour law, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi today said he will meet concerned ministers of nine states next week to discuss the issue and announced that ...
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Manoramaonline
How dusty are your employment contracts?
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
This applies even if it was originally drafted by an employment lawyer. While some have accused me of simply trying to ensure a continuing supply of work for myself, the reality is the law evolves and changes in the law can diminish the value of a ...
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9th Circuit arbitration ruling could impact employment cases
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
"I think employment law is different," Palefsky, who signed an amicus brief supporting Kilgore in the 9th Circuit, told Reuters. The National Labor Relations Act, the Norris-Laguardia Act and the National Labor Relations Board all say employees have a ...
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Lord Sugar: dismissal of Apprentice winner case 'a victory for law against ...
Herald Scotland
Ms English, 34, sued the Labour peer after resigning from the £100,000-a-year job that was her prize for winning series six of the BBC1 show in 2010. She told the East London Tribunal Service last month that she was treated like an "overpaid lackey ...
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Herald Scotland
Overcoming Criticism, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management ...
The National Law Review
Adam Bartrom of the firm's Labor and Employment Law Department collaborates with businesses to handle disputes and to create preventive strategies of all sizes. Adam dedicates his practice to representing management interests on the employment and ...
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Employment bill aims to facilitate restructure
VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – A law on employment should help develop the country's labour market and human resources in order to meet the demands of economic restructuring and socio-economic development to 2020. Employment bill, restructure, labour market, ...
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VietNamNet Bridge
Christian woman sacked after Islamist harassment granted application to appeal
Christian Concern
A Christian worker who was dismissed from her job at Heathrow Airport has been granted permission to challenge a ruling by an employment tribunal which left her without any rights under employment law. Last year, an Employment Tribunal found that ...
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Lost labour
Calcutta Telegraph
The labour law, which requires companies in Saudi Arabia to employ 10 per cent of the workforce from among the local population, has been in force for the past two years, but has never been enforced so strictly before. The impact of the law is ...
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Hard Labor
Inland Empire Weekly
Douglas Farmer, one of the attorneys at labor and employment law firm Ogletree Deakins representing Schneider Logistics told Thomson Reuters that language on the declarations signed by the employees stated that they could be a "potential member of a ...
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Inland Empire Weekly
Washington State Legislators Withdraw Bill Allowing Employers to Access Social ...
The National Law Review
Several states recently have addressed the topic of employee social media privacy. California, Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan are among the states that already have passed laws forbidding employers from requesting employees' or applicants' social ...
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Social Media Portal interview on the Paris Brown social media employment issue
Social Media Portal
SMP: What do you see as biggest challenges and opportunities for employers and recruiters with the continual rise of social media from an employment law perspective? JC: Large employers will find it difficult to monitor everything that their employees ...
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Former employee who sold firm's databases on eBay found guilty of database ...
Out-Law.com
The High Court also found the man who purchased the databases, and the woman who subsequently marketed them for sale to others, guilty of database rights infringement. The employee, referred to as 'Mr Wall' in the High Court's judgment, admitted to ...
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Employment Law Changes - April 2013
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
At present employers seeking to make 100 or more employees redundant within a 90 day period, must begin consultation at least 90 days before any dismissals can take effect. From 6 April 2013 this 90 day minimum period will be reduced to 45 days.
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Expatriate employee housing benefits: upcoming change in taxation
International Law Office
When sending employees abroad, employers typically provide allowances for certain additional costs, such as medical insurance, transport, schooling and housing. Under Singapore law, all benefits derived from employment – including salary, bonuses, ...
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British Columbia Employment Law Overview
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Just cause is misconduct which goes to the heart of the employment relationship. An employer who has just cause to end the employment relationship may do so without providing the employee any notice or severance pay. Examples of misconduct that may ...
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Unpaid interns: 100 firms being investigated by HMRC
The Guardian
While companies are free to offer work experience, where this ends up amounting to a job – for example if hours and duties are set and the position lasts for a long time – companies are breaking employment laws if they do not pay at least the minimum wage.
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The Guardian
Caerphilly pay rise scandal latest: Leaked legal advice said failing to ...
WalesOnline
The report says: "This will require the council to demonstrate that its reason for terminating contracts of employment, and reducing pay arrangements, is a fair reason in employment law terms. In these circumstances, it will be necessary to consider ...
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WalesOnline
Partial Deafness Found to Not Be a Disability Under the ADAAA
The National Law Journal
Sid Steinberg is a partner in Post & Schell's business law and litigation department. He concentrates his national litigation and consulting practice in the field of employment and employee relations law. Steinberg has lectured extensively on all ...
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The National Law Journal
Jones Day Lands Employment Guru From Wilson Sonsini
Law360 (subscription)
Fred Alvarez will join Jones Day after more than 16 years with Wilson Sonsini, where he headed the firm's employment law litigation practice. He joined Wilson Sonsini from Pillsbury Madison & Sutro, which is now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
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Former employee says Alpha Appalachian Services discriminated against him
West Virginia Record
Treadway claims he was hired after an administrative law judge ruled that the defendants' predecessor, Massey Energy, committed unfair labor practices by not hiring union members when it purchased the company in or around 2004 and ordered it to offer ...
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West Virginia Record
Q&A With Lane Powell's Paul Ostroff
Law360 (subscription)
Paul Ostroff provides advice and counsel to employers in all phases of labor and employment law, including collective bargaining, labor arbitration, union organizing campaigns, employment discrimination, discipline and discharge, wage and hour ...
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Employment Minister Jo Swinson acts over 100 firms accused of using unpaid ...
The Independent
The details of 100 companies accused of breaking the law by using unpaid interns in paid roles have been handed to HM Revenue and Customs by Employment Minister Jo Swinson. Ms Swinson told Intern Aware that its claims that the unnamed employers ...
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The Independent
Cyber Security: The long arm of the law gets a little longer | By Robert E ...
Hospitality Net
Hotel brands and managers have employees in a wide variety of jurisdictions, often worldwide, and the vast array of foreign laws, regulations and policies can make it difficult to establish clear and comprehensive security plans, and even more ...
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Employee health benefits dwindle
The Tennessean
A Towers Watson survey of more than 500 companies with more than 1,000 employees found none of the companies plan to drop insurance because of the law. Health insurance brokers say their business clients are "staying the course" on their current ...
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Sandberg Phoenix welcomes John Gilbert as new counsel
Madison County Record
Gilbert has been honored with the AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for ethics and legal ability, and has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in the categories of School Law, Employment Law: Management, Governmental, ...
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Madison County Record
Unprotected strikes targeted in draft amendment
Legalbrief (subscription)
Patel and Letlonkane add that as the law stands, employees are allowed to strike over claims of unfair discrimination because this type of employment law lives in the Employment Equity Act (EEA) and not the LRA. However, when the amendment is ...
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UAE 'not so generous' with maternity leave
gulfnews.com
The Federal Labour Law in the UAE stipulates that working women are entitled to 45 calendar days of maternity leave with full pay, provided they have at least one year of continuous service. Those who have worked for less than one year are entitled to ...
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NJ Constitutional Wage Hike Could Go Too Far, Attorneys Say
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Doing so via the constitution would be a severe misuse of that power, argued Mark Tabakman, a partner with Fox Rothschild LLP who practices labor and employment law. "The New Jersey State Wage and Hour Law has been on the books for decades, and ...
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UAE watchdog says UN labour report lacks credibility
The National
There is a problem but the labour market in the UAE is in a good position." He said there were safeguards for workers who felt they had been exploited, channels for them to voice grievances, and that the law looked after any victims of the system. The ...
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SEIU allowed to keep $34 million in forced dues after MERC dismisses ...
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
"It was apparent at the time that there was an exceedingly strong legal argument that these caregivers were not public employees under Michigan's public-sector labor law," Wright added. "When such jurisdictional matters occur, there are centuries of ...
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Arkansas Senate approves random drug testing for the unemployed
World Socialist Web Site
George Wentworth, a senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project's Connecticut office, stated of the 2012 law that previously the only criteria for eligibility are fact and cause—fact being that someone is unemployed, and the cause ...
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Successor Liability Under the FLSA: Seventh Circuit Holds Purchaser of Assets ...
The National Law Review
But, Posner noted, a more employee-friendly federal common law standard of successor liability has often been applied which trumps the majority state law rule "when liability is based on a violation of a federal statute relating to labor relations or ...
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DOLE sets April 17 consultation on proposed IRR of Kasambahay Law in Ifugao
Philippine Information Agency
The "Batas Kasambahay" is a landmark piece of labor and social legislation that recognizes for the first time domestic workers as similar to those in the formal sector and strengthens respect, protection and promotion of their rights and welfare. The ...
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Blogs5 new results for Employment Law
 
Senators speak out on NLRB nominations | Employment Law Daily
By Heidi Henson
Two Senators from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions responded to President Obama's announcement that he intends to nominate.
Employment Law Daily
The Importance Of Providing Individual FMLA Notices To Employees ...
By Franczek Radelet P.C.
The Department of Labor was serious when it required employers beginning in 2009 to provide individual FMLA notices to employees regarding their eligibility and rights (Notice of...
Labor & Employment Law RSS Feed...
Track special requests for changes in hours, work — Business ...
By The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law
Sometimes, an employee asks for schedule changes, extra hours or even permission to work from home now and then. If you grant such ... by The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law on April 12, 2013 8:00am in Discrimination and ...
Business Management Daily
Daniel Lublin's Interview on the front page of the Toronto Star
By Whitten and Lublin
Daniel Lublin was again asked for his opinion on the situation surrounding RBC and recent apology to its workers affected by the outsourcing. The Toronto Star.
Wrongful Dismissal and Employment...
New Decision on Disability Discrimination from the Court of Justice ...
By Eilionoir Flynn
This ruling is particularly significant as it represents the first decision on the definition of disability under the Framework Directive on Employment 2000/78 since the EU concluded the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ...
Human Rights in Ireland

Web6 new results for Employment Law
 
Undue political pressure violates process, expert on labor law says ...
LEWISTON — An expert on unemployment labor law said Wednesday that any undue political pressure exerted on the unemployment appeal hearing process ...
www.sunjournal.com/news/maine/2013/04/11/.../1346506
Dentons - International Employment Law
Our deep knowledge of Africa and international employment law and practice facilitated advice and assistance to the client. Kuoni global travel services: ...
www.dentons.com/.../international-employment-law.aspx
National Employment Law Project | BillMoyers.com
In 1967, the civil rights leader spoke of a society in which the chasm between rich and poor is tragically wide and deep. Sound familiar? Continue reading ...
billmoyers.com/tag/national-employment-law-project/
2013 Employment Law Update | Belmont-Watertown Local First
2013 Employment Law Update. Presented by Amy Carlin, of Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP and sponsored by our friends at Cambridge Local First. Learn about the ...
www.watertownlocalfirst.org/law-update-2013
Knowing Your Rights Under Florida Employment Law at ... - Events
Knowing Your Rights Under Florida Employment Law - Your source for local - Talks & Lectures events in Bradenton, FL.
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Employment Law | Nehmad Perillo & Davis
Description of the Employment Law practice of the law firm of Nehmad Perillo & Davis, Egg Harbor Township, NJ.
www.npdlaw.com/services/employment-law


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