Apr 24, 2013

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2950 firms flouting labour laws: Survey
Peninsula On-line
DOHA: A recent survey by the Labour Ministry of 56,000 private companies has found that nearly 5 percent (or 2,950) of them have little regard for the labour law. Grouped into the last or C category, these are the companies involved in major violations ...
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Opinion: Cash for coffees and rights for shares - Liberal Democrat Voice
Liberal Democrat Voice
The proposal, which the Liberal Democrats in Government support, seeks to allow business to employ new staff with fewer statutory employment rights in exchange for a stake in the company. Successive governments have coated employee protection after ...
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Liberal Democrat Voice
QF 'model' guarantees rights of workers - Gulf times
Gulf Times
The main objective is to guarantee the rights of workers - from recruitment and until they are repatriated to their home countries. The new regulations are based upon "a holistic and principled approach" that combines Qatari Labour Law and ...
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Gulf Times
Teamwork is key to Civil Rights Appellate Clinic in amici curiae brief to SCOTUS
Penn State News
"This case involved a very complicated legal issue that we grappled with in the clinic and in our employment law courses," said clinic student Asima Ahmad, who is also a managing editor for the Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs. "We ...
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Romance policies that work--even with 'irresistible' employees
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Minnesota Employment Law on April 24, 2013 12:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,HR Management,Human Resources. by Matthew P. Webster, Esq., Gray Plant Mooty, Minneapolis. Workplace romance has long been the bane ...
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Littler Attracts Nationally-Recognized Attorney Don Prophete in Kansas City ...
Wall Street Journal
Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world's largest employment and labor law firm representing management, today announced the addition of seven attorneys across multiple offices throughout the U.S., led by renowned labor and employment practitioner ...
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The Beginning Of The End Revisited
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
From an employment law perspective, the two major issues involve Andy's understandable unhappiness in finding that Nellie is, inexplicably, still employed. Based on Toby's statement that she can only be terminated for "just cause," Nellie apparently ...
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Qatar Foundation implements welfare standards to guarantee workers rights
Al-Bawaba
The new regulations are based upon a holistic and principled approach that combines Qatari Labour Law and international best practice. In October of last year, Qatar Foundation signed the Migrant Workers Welfare Charter. The charter is a strong ...
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Labor Nominee Exemplifies All That Is Bad with Government
Cato Institute (blog)
Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights who personifies both the Peter Principle and this administration's flouting of the rule of law, is due this week for a vote in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on ...
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An introduction to UK employment law - part one
Lexology (registration)
A written employment contract is not required but this is usual to ensure that both parties are clear about the terms of the employment arrangement. If there is no written contract then a "Particulars of Employment" should be provided within two months ...
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Unions seek injunction to block law implementation
Green Bay Press Gazette
"By implementing and enforcing a law determined to be unconstitutional, they are saying 'We are above the law. That is intolerable,'" said John Matthews, executive director of Madison Teachers Inc., in a statement. His union and the Public Employees ...
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Wall Street pushes for exemptions in state social-media monitoring laws
Computerworld Australia
The state laws were prompted by concerns among privacy and labor groups that some employers were asking prospective employees for access to their social media accounts as a condition of employment. Maryland's law, for instance, was passed after a ...
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Layoffs looming? Use past reviews to decide who stays and who goes
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Texas Employment Law on April 23, 2013 4:00pm in Discrimination and Harassment,Human Resources. Smart employers use past performance rankings as the major criterion for laying off employees during a reduction in force.
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George Osborne barters to save flagship workers' share plan
The Guardian
In the Commons, the business minister Michael Fallon tried to reassure Tory peers before sending the bill back to the Lords for a third time, telling MPs "the company must give the individual a written statement setting out the employment rights that ...
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The Guardian
What readers want to know: Your career questions answered
Financial Post
If you work regularly for the same company, with relatively regular hours, reporting to someone, appearing to the outside world as an employee, integrated into its organization and using its equipment, you are an employee at law. If you are legally an ...
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Unions ask court to block Scott Walker's enforcement of Act 10 bargaining bill
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The two unions in the Act 10 case Tuesday asked Colás to block Walker and his appointees on the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission from enforcing the parts of the collective bargaining law found unconstitutional by the ruling. "They argued that ...
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10 Things to Know About the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Center For American Progress
If passed and signed into law, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013, or ENDA, would prohibit most employers from discriminating against employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It would finally put in place uniform and ...
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Chicago Fast Food and Retail Workers Strike
ColorLines magazine
Hundreds of Chicago fast food and retails workers walked off the job this morning in a one-day strike to demand wage hikes and union rights. The walk-out is part of an accelerating trend of labor actions by low-wage, non-union workers at some of the ...
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French parliament adopts gay marriage law
The Australian
Former president Jacques Chirac shelved an unpopular employment law that had been passed by parliament in 2006, but Hollande is seen as unlikely to follow that precedent. The government is also confident that the constitutional challenge will be ...
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Protecting India's migrants
The Hindu
Thus, loopholes and deficits in labour law coverage reinforce underlying vulnerabilities. Even where legal redress is provided for under national law, and human trafficking is criminalised and punishable, there have been few prosecutions. In such a ...
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Advice to plaintiffs' lawyers post-Dukes - Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Against this backdrop, Joseph Seiner, an employment law professor at University of South Carolina, offered some advice to plaintiffs' lawyers on how to negate the impact of the Dukes decision. In a forthcoming article for the University of Notre Dame ...
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Quinn Emanuel, Allen & Overy, Simpson: Business of Law
Bloomberg
Employees from the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, which advised Chesapeake on the notes, and Morgan Stanley, which was an underwriter, will testify at the trial, as will Chesapeake Chief Financial Officer Domenic Dell'Osso, Richard Ziegler, the ...
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Jersey government plans fee for migrant workers
BBC News
Under the law residential status will be split into four categories covering areas someone can work and live. Any business employing migrant workers will have to pay £175 per licensed employee and £50 per registered employee. Visiting contractors and ...
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BBC News
Posting: Michigan Freedom to Work
The Detroit News (blog)
While the federal government's attempt to force employers to post a notice of "employee rights to join a union" is in legal limbo, Michigan employers can now download and post a "Freedom to Work" poster that makes it clear that their employees cannot ...
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The Detroit News (blog)
Firms vexed on older workers - AsiaOne.com
AsiaOne
According to the survey on the revised Law for the Stabilization of Employment of Elderly People, which was put into force this month, many companies have taken measures to reduce labour costs, such as making large cuts in salaries of employees aged ...
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AsiaOne
Free social networking seminar
Galway Independent
Titled 'Time to Face Up to Social Networking Issues', the briefing by employment law consultancy Peninsula Business Services will advise employers on the current legislation and the use of social media in the workplace. The briefing aims to educate ...
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Locked-out employees could not benefit from federal programs for workers ...
CCH
Likewise, the employees' contention that union members were being penalized for exercising their collective bargaining rights was rejected. The court reasoned that the UC law and the Trade Act had "two distinct purposes," which do not overlap or ...
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Henry's trial opens with allegations of abuse, 'horrific' conditions at bunkhouse
DesMoinesRegister.com
The people who ran Henry's Turkey Service exploited mentally disabled workers, physically abused the men and "stripped them of their civil rights and their dignity" for years, a federal jury in Davenport was told today. The U.S. Equal Employment ...
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PRC labour law - bitesize
Lexology (registration)
Is an employer in the PRC obliged to make a severance payment to its employee if the employee terminates his/her employment? The requirement to make such a payment depends on the reason why the employee is terminating his or her employment with ...
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FMLA and ADA Intersection Dangerous For Employers
Human Resource Executive Online
Nancy Leonard, an employment law expert and partner in the Kansas City office of Constangy, says that with the expansion of ADA in 2009, employers actually now can assume that "everyone has a disability," which makes it very difficult to manage ...
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African American Leaders Band Together to Oppose Senate Immigration Bill
Wall Street Journal
As the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently reported, illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has "depress[ed] both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men." ...
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Bill seeks to rid age discrimination in workplace
Philippine Star
The act of segregating or classifying employees, which will deprive individuals of employment opportunity or otherwise adversely affect the status as an employee because of age shall be punishable by law. The measure also prohibits the employer from ...
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H7N9 defense measures prepared
The Japan Times
Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry officials said ordinances under the Infectious Disease Law and the Quarantine Law will be revised early next month. The countermeasures state that patients or others working in the hospitality or food industries will ...
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Wragge & Co | An introduction to UK employment law - part one - Linex Search
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
Investment into the UK from China is growing in importance to both countries, and understanding UK employment law will allow Chinese investors to improve the significant returns a UK-based operation can offer. Chinese businesses recruiting staff in the ...
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Real Immigration Reform – Is It About To Happen?
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
The Editor interviews David Grunblatt, Head of Proskauer's Immigration & Nationality Group in the Labor & Employment Law Department, resident in the Newark, New Jersey office. Editor: What are the principal cornerstones of immigration reform as ...
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American Red Cross must rescind employment changes
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
(Reuters) - The American Red Cross must rescind employment-policy changes that it made as a group of blood collection specialists attempted to unionize, a federal appeals court has ruled. The three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
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Payroll news | Payroll questions | Employment Law advice from Payroll Help. Payroll help is a site covering payroll and HR news and advice. It is maintained by the payroll and HR experts at The Learn Centre who provide. Payroll Training ...
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Web8 new results for Employment Law
 
State Employment Law Update - April 2013 | BizFilings Toolkit
Recent changes in state employment laws may affect you and your business.
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Employment Law - Folsom Personal Injury Attorney
Cable Gallagher is an employment law litigation law firm based in Folsom, California. We offer free consults. Call 916-458-4959 for scheduling.
www.folsom-law.com/Practice-Areas/Employment-Law.shtml
Mountain States Employers Council's Employment Law Update ...
Mountain States Employers Council's Employment Law Update Conference at Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix - Mountain States Employers Council hosts ...
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Crazy Requests From the Boss - HR Watchdog - Typepad
CalChamber's experts analyze federal and state legislation and important court cases that affect employment law. California businesses turn to HRCalifornia for ...
calchamber.typepad.com/.../crazy-requests-from-the-boss.html
Recent changes to employment law - Lexology
From 6 April 2013, employers must report their employee's pay and deductions to HMRC prior to or at the time of pay. This is known as real-time…
www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3946026c-f318...
Employment Law - Garrison Law
We have long been recognized as a preeminent law firm in Connecticut for the representation of individuals in employment disputes – and with good reason.
www.garrisonlaw.com/our-practice/employment-law/
Florida Employment law? - Yahoo! Answers
No. It's too late for worker's compensation and you are due nothing else.
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International Employment Law Update | Littler Mendelson |
This webinar is the first in the six-session webinar series presented by the Labor and Employment Law Program of Cornell University's ILR School.
www.littler.com/events/international-employment-law-update


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