Apr 23, 2013

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Workshop will focus on employment, labor law - The Southern Illinoisan
The Southern
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Understanding relevant law is one the keys to successfully operating a business, and the Illinois Small Business Development Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale will host a workshop "Updates in Employment and Labor ...
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Legal guidance: protecting company information in the cloud-era - HRzone.co.uk
HRZone.co.uk
Recent years have seen dramatic changes to the use of technology in the workplace, creating new potential avenues for employees to steal sensitive data and, consequently, a growing headache for HR teams. One of the latest challenges is the growth of ...
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WVU Study Sheds Light on Child Labor Law Violations and Deaths in North ...
Justice News Flash
A shocking new study by the West Virginia University School of Public Health has shed light on just how many children are dying on the job in the state of North Carolina as a result of child labor law violations, reports Bay Area employment lawyer Eric ...
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How is end-of-service gratuity calculated?
gulfnews.com
As per Article (132) of the UAE Federal Labour Law, and in respect to the end-of-service gratuity, we quote the following: A worker who has completed a period of one or more years of continuous service shall be entitled to severance pay on termination ...
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Littler Attorneys Named Top Legal Writers
Law Week Colorado
SAN FRANCISCO (April 22, 2013) – Shareholder Philip Gordon (Denver) and Associate Lauren Woon (San Diego), attorneys from Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world's foremost employment and labor law firm representing management, have earned ...
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The Final Breaths of the Alien Tort Statute
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
In one such case,3 a federal district court dismissed claims that a company was complicit in the forced labor and torture of Malian field workers located in the Ivory Coast, finding insufficient support under international law to hold corporate ...
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Department of Labor files subpoena over youth work at Hurricane pecan farm
St. George Daily Spectrum
(Page 2 of 2). While the alleged violations during the recent harvest at Southern Utah Pecan Ranch may not violate Utah labor law, which exempts agricultural work from age limitations, federal labor laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, may ...
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Updated employment law reform timetable
Lexology (registration)
As a result of recent Government announcements, a clearer picture has now emerged of when various employment law reforms will be introduced throughout the rest of 2013. Below is a summary of these in addition to a brief look at some of those reforms ...
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Impact Of New Law On Trade Unions And Collective Bargaining Agreements
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
As it was the case under the Former Laws, neither employees nor employers can be members of more than one trade union in the same industrial sector at the same time. However, the Law allows employees to become member in more than one trade union, ...
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Ropes & Gray, Sidley, Cleary, Gibson Dunn:Business of Law
Businessweek
Kiley represents management in labor and employment law, including with advice and counseling, litigation and collective bargaining. Dee concentrates on internal investigations and regulatory and white collar criminal defense. Sheppard Mullin has 630 ...
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Do OSHA and other laws cover telecommuting?
Business Management Daily
So do most other employment-related laws. Also, you might be obligated to provide a reasonable accommodation under the ADA if the employee needs one. If the employee is injured while performing his or her job, workers' compensation law applies.
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Get The Latest Employment Updates — For Your Clients' Sake
Law360 (subscription)
Law360, New York (April 22, 2013, 12:40 PM ET) -- It can be difficult for employers, and even their attorneys, to keep pace with the seemingly day-to-day developments in employment law. However, a recent ruling by the California Court of Appeal for the ...
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Brokerbility in claims strategy partnership with two law firms
Insurance Age
Among the services the partnership will offer are training workshops for Brokerbility members and customers on a range of legal topics, employment law advice for customers and a 24-hour helpline for driving and workplace accidents. The network stated ...
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Restaurant Worker Paid Below Minimum Wage for Training
SF Public Press
Immigrants bear the brunt of labor exploitation. According to a 2009 report by the National Employment Law Project, foreign-born Latinos had an especially high minimum wage violation rate — 35 percent, double the rate of U.S.-born Latinos and nearly ...
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Hold bosses accountable for workplace problems
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Texas Employment Law on April 22, 2013 4:00pm in Firing,Human Resources. Here's an important concept to remember when disciplining managers: They are responsible for what goes on below them on the organization chart, whether ...
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Shares for rights voted down for a second time - Workplace Law
Workplace Law Network (subscription)
During the debate, QC and independent crossbencher, Lord Pannick, labelled the scheme "unrealistic" and warned it would be "damaging to industrial harmony to allow employers to buy off basic employment rights" such as the right to statutory redundancy ...
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Recently Enacted New York City Law Bars Discrimination Against The ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Under the law, employers are prohibited from basing an employment decision "with regard to hiring, compensation or the terms, conditions or privileges of employment on an applicant's unemployment." Employers are also prohibited from publishing job ...
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Detroit emergency manager proclaims power to end collective bargaining
World Socialist Web Site
Outlining his contempt for state laws, Orr declared that because Detroit is in receivership, he is not subject to Michigan's Public Employment Relations Act, a 1947 law that legalized collective bargaining between unions and local governments and ...
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US employees set to be forced to give bosses their Facebook PASSWORDS
Daily Mail
An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress. A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented ...
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Daily Mail
The hidden cost of your unpaid interns
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the federal law governing overtime and minimum wage, rules apply only to "employees" but, unfortunately, the FLSA's definitions are vague in determining whether "interns" are, in fact, employees. The Act simply ...
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SOUTHWEST SUPER LAWYERS® RECOGNIZES SIX UDALL LAW FIRM ...
Tucson Citizen
Mr. Akmajian is a trial lawyer with a practice focus of medical malpractice, legal malpractice, legal ethics, product liability as well as commercial litigation, insurance litigation, employment law and family law. Thomas Tony Langan Udall Law Firm ...
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Changes to law
NW Evening Mail
Changes to law. Last updated at 15:41, Tuesday, 23 April 2013. AS most of you reading my column will by now know, there are two key dates in the year when changes to employment legislation come in to force – April 1 and October 1. Phil Collier. This ...
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NW Evening Mail
NLRB recess: It's all in the timing - Philly.com
Philly.com (blog)
The reason the timing needs to be so precise is that the case, Noel Canning versus the NLRB, has caused a ruckus in employment law. The decision essentially throws out an National Labor Relations Board ruling in the case on the grounds that the board ...
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Philly.com (blog)
Assistant AG: No abuse, no political hiring if civil service law is amended
Marianas Variety
THE assistant attorney general who serves as the Civil Service Commission's legal counsel said yesterday that the proposed amendment to the civil service law will not allow for any abuse in hiring government employees. In an email interview yesterday, ...
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Wagner Law Group Welcomes Senior Counsel Guy B. Maxfield
Wall Street Journal
The Firm focuses on ERISA, employee benefits and executive compensation; estate planning and administration; employment, labor and human resources law; and general corporate law, including litigation, real estate and succession planning. The Wagner ...
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Burlington asks whether livable wage ordinance has room for improvement
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Read about other cities' livable wage laws at the National Employment Law Project: http://bit.ly/NationalEmployment. More. What's a fair wage in Burlington? That perennial question prompted a recent review by the city of its livable wage ordinance ...
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Q&A for Pesky Summer Service Personnel Issues
The National Law Review
An employee who was employed in any service personnel job or position during the previous summer shall have the option of retaining the job or position if the job or position exists during any succeeding summer. . . . So, the question is, how is a ...
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Legal Counsel
LawFuel.co.nz
As a result, expertise in public law, procurement, dispute resolution, intellectual property, and employment law would all be advantageous. The Legal Counsel will be a trusted advisor to PHARMAC staff and management. For such a varied role, we need a ...
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Employers Will Have to Adjust if 'Ban the Box' Bill Becomes Law
KAALtv.com
If "Ban the Box" becomes law, Joe Schmitt, attorney with Nilan Johnson Lewis' labor and employment group, says employers will have to adjust. "They are going to have to alter their applications for employment, they are going to have to alter their ...
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Holocaust Center Appoints Three Business Leaders to Board of Directors
Long Island Exchange
Keith Gutstein is a partner with the law firm of Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP and concentrates his practice in labor and employment law on behalf of management. Mr. Gutstein regularly counsels clients in all issues arising from the employer-employee ...
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Looper Reed Adds Depth to Bankruptcy Section, Hires Jason Brookner
Wall Street Journal
Looper Reed & McGraw offers a wide range of legal services including business litigation, corporate transactions, oil & gas, tax planning and litigation, real estate, healthcare, trusts and estates, employment law, family law, intellectual property ...
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Government move would open the way for unions to file a complaint with the UN
The Australian
... then government and I, on behalf of employers, personally had to put the case in Geneva," he said. In "95 per cent of cases" the treaty would not be a problem as Australia had minimum school-age laws that acted as a proxy to block underage employment.
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Coyote Ugly Sued for Retaliating Against Employees via Social Media
Lawyers.com Blog (blog)
A federal court in Tennessee has refused to dismiss lawsuits against the owner and operator of the Coyote Ugly Saloon, where employees say tips are pooled illegally and they were retaliated against for suing over it. The retaliation suit came long ...
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Transgender rights: the next big political movement
The Guardian
For example, of the 16 state laws protecting trans people against employment discrimination, 14 of them passed within the last decade, representing a groundswell of political organizing and public education. Gender Justice LA, the organization I work ...
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The Guardian
Termination of employees--what both sides should know about mitigation and ...
Oilsands Review
In a termination without cause scenario, the employer must provide the employee with "common law" reasonable notice of termination, or make a payment to the employee in lieu of that notice, unless there is an enforceable employment contract expressly ...
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Q&A: Implicit Bias Effect on Asian American Workers
Bloomberg BNA
AAJC's interest in the effective vindication of these employees' rights has resulted in the organization's participation in numerous amicus curiae briefs supporting vigorous enforcement of Title VII and other employment laws. AAJC has joined amicus ...
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How a director of a failed company can still be on the hook for employees' pay ...
Canadian Underwriter
As such, one of the most significant exposures for directors under federal labour law is for statutory termination pay, Diamond and Todd wrote. "Liability for this arises from employees' termination, which in these cases is often the result of a ...
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Canadian Underwriter

Blogs2 new results for Employment Law
 
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog: Do FLSA Settlements ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Philip Miles)
1988)(observing that a employee cannot generally waive his rights under FLSA, but that he may be able to release a factually disputed claim); Watkins v. Hudson Coal Co., 151 F.2d 311, 314 (3d Cir. 1945) (noting that a private agreement over ...
Lawffice Space - Employment Law Blog
The California Employment Law Blog: Radcliffe v. Experian: Ninth ...
By Steven G. Pearl
My knowledge of employment law, neutrality, and natural tenacity allow me to resolve cases effectively. Contact Audra Graham at Audra@ADRServices.org or (310) 201-0010 to calendar a mediation. CV of Steven G. Pearl · Daily Journal ...
The California Employment Law Blog

Web6 new results for Employment Law
 
Employment law cases involved small steps, not giant ... - Denver
Changes to employment law often come in dramatic pronouncements by the Supreme Court....
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Paul Hastings: Practice Areas: Employment Law: Overview
Paul Hastings is a widely recognized leader in U.S. employment law with a thriving practice in key markets across Asia and Europe. Our lawyers have appeared ...
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Employment Law | Mooney & Associates
When things go wrong in the workplace, there are a federal, state and local laws that must be followed in order to determine a resolution. If you have ...
mooneyandassociates.com/general-practice/employment-law/
Tribunal Fee Update - Employment Law - Law Plain and Simple
We use plain and simple English to give you an overview of the most common areas of law. You are here: HomeLegal GuidesEmployment LawTribunal Fee ...
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Cambridge Local First » 2013 Employment Law Seminar
EMPLOYMENT LAW UPDATE. Thank you to all who attended the most recent CLF Business Improvement Seminar and to Attorney Amy Carlin for taking the ...
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April 2013 Employment Law Update - Brach Eichler
The Brach Eichler LLC Employment Group is pleased to provide our clients and contacts with this month's Employment Law Update. HR TIP OF THE MONTH ...
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