May 14, 2013

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Sask. passes omnibus labour law; unions argue it may hurt workers
CTV News
The Saskatchewan government has passed labour legislation that overhauls and melds 12 pieces of legislation into one omnibus law. The new Saskatchewan Employment Act allows for people to work either five eight-hour days a week or four 10-hour days a ...
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Saskatchewan passes omnibus labour law - Star Phoenix
StarPhoenix
REGINA — The contentious Bill 85 — the Saskatchewan Employment Act — has passed a third and final reading in the legislative assembly, overhauling and melding 12 pieces of legislation into one omnibus law. Two components of Bill 85 have been the ...
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StarPhoenix
Interns – to pay or not to pay?
Canadian HR Reporter (blog)
Employment standards law in most jurisdictions allow for them in specified industries — such as for vocational training in skilled trades. Anything else other than a placement as part of an educational program is likely illegal. Employment standards ...
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Law enforcement employment and retirement
Federal Times (blog)
Q. I am planning on retiring when I am 60. I will have 16.5 years of law enforcement employment (age waiver for entrance). I also have bought back 9¼ years' active-duty time. Will I get the special rate of 1.7 percent for my law enforcement time and ...
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EEOC: Cut award for abused Henry's workers to $1.6 million
DesMoinesRegister.com
In addition to the two judgments won by the EEOC, the U.S. Department of Labor has won a $1.76 million judgment against Henry's for federal labor law violations, and Iowa Workforce Development has imposed a $1.2 million civil fine against Henry's for ...
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Disagreement on post-service victimisation claims
Legalbrief (subscription)
An Out-Law.com report notes Mr Justice Langstaff, President of the EAT, said that the Equality Act covered post-employment victimisation. In his ruling, he disagreed with the findings of the EAT on a similar issue, in a ruling handed down in March ...
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Whistleblowing legislation 'counterproductive', claims academic
CIPD (blog)
Employment law professor David Lewis, from Middlesex University, is to tell the Whistleblowing Commission today that such a law will increase uncertainty amongst workers who have major concerns about practices in their workplace, such as health and ...
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Omnibus labour bill becomes law - Leader Post
Regina Leader-Post
The controversial omnibus labour bill passed by the provincial government will "take the province forward," according to Labour Minister Don Morgan. The legislation is "all about ideology," countered labour leader Larry Hubich. Bill 85 - the ...
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The legal ins-and-outs of sending your kids to work
DavidsonNews.net (blog)
Child labor is the subject of both state and federal laws designed to protect children from dangerous jobs and exploitation. The first federal law regulating child labor was passed in 1916. In 1918, Roland Dagenhart of Charlotte challenged the ...
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Instead of firing after FMLA and disability leave, consider reasonable ...
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Minnesota Employment Law on May 14, 2013 12:00pm in FMLA Guidelines,Human Resources. Do you automatically terminate employees who aren't ready to return to work after using up all available FMLA and short-term disability ...
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Nitaqat Law on Khurshid's Agenda in Saudia Arabia
Outlook
The controversial 'Nitaqat' law relating to employment, energy security, counter-terrorism cooperation and a host of bilateral and regional issues would be discussed during External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's visit to Saudi Arabia later this month.
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Unpaid internships: moves to bolster crackdown on minimum wage breaches
The Guardian
In a letter to Labour MP Hazel Blears, the employment relations minister, Jo Swinson, said the government would produce the booklet to make graduates aware of their employment rights in time for this summer, when hundreds of thousands of UK students ...
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The Guardian
Woman who suffered sex injury on work trip to go all the way to the High Court
SmartCompany.com.au
Andrew Douglas, partner at M&K Lawyers, told SmartCompany the law as it stands imposes a heavy burden on employers. "The legal question is if I require you to go somewhere as a part of work and organise accommodation for you, and during the period of ...
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Labour to look at ban on under-12s advertising
Scotsman
In efforts to encourage the role of fathers in bringing up children, Mr Cruddas said "They should have rights enshrined in employment law; for example, we will look at paid leave to attend antenatal sessions." He said some public services did not ...
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Scotsman
Good performance reviews don't outweigh later discipline
Business Management Daily
Good performance reviews don't outweigh later discipline. by The HR Specialist: Pennsylvania Employment Law on May 14, 2013 8:00am in Firing,Human Resources. Sometimes, an employee does something so outrageous that you have no choice but to ...
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Aaron's Names Robert W. Kamerschen Senior Vice President and General ...
Sacramento Bee
Kamerschen will be responsible for managing all legal and governmental affairs for Aaron's, including employment law, regulatory matters, intellectual property, litigation, vendor relationships, financings, acquisitions, and other general legal matters.
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Feds: Scientology Forced on Workers
ABC News
In the same statement, Malcolm Medley, the EEOC's district director for Miami, said, "When an employer makes an employment decision based on employees' failure to adopt the employer's religious beliefs, it violates federal law. The EEOC will act ...
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ABC News
For Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, breaking up is hard to do: Kelly
Toronto Star
Owing to the vagaries of EU employment law, break-ups are easy to do. Contracts are essentially unenforceable. There's a medieval spirit when it comes to splits — all you need do is say you want a divorce three times in the press, and the thing is done.
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Toronto Star
JOB CITES: No luck required for employers that follow tip pool law
Wisconsin Law Journal
That being said, courts have found that there is no magical language that must be used by an employer in informing the employee of the minimum wage tip credit and employers are not expected to be experts on the law. As to the final element, and the ...
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Wisconsin Law Journal
Judge orders JPL to drop discipline over scientists' email
Los Angeles Times
Administrative Law Judge William G. Kocol ordered JPL to purge disciplinary letters related to the case from the employee files of Dennis Byrnes, Scott Maxwell, Larry D'Addario, Robert Nelson and William Bruce Banerdt. The five were accused of ...
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BOE approves policy changes
Crossville Chronicle
The tenure procedure policy was changed to reflect changes in state law that changed how many years a teacher had to teach before becoming eligible for tenure, extending the period from three years to five. The policy was changed to state documentation ...
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France passes reform to ease hire-and-fire rules
Terra.com
The new labour law will allow companies to negotiate with trade unions to reduce salaries and introduce shorter working hours for a limited period during an economic downturn - similar to Germany's "Kurzarbeit" rules that have helped its companies ...
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Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012
Xinhua
The state has amended the Labor Contract Law and the Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Occupational Diseases, and formulated the Special Rules on Protection of Female Employees and Interpretations (III) of the Supreme People's Court of Several ...
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When it comes to bias, the customer's not always right
Business Management Daily
Take it too literally, and you could be courting employment law liability. THE LAW: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and similar state laws bar discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in public accommodations. Most businesses that ...
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Football clubs falling foul of HR rules
bdaily
While the employee's rights would include an internal appeal and, if they had notched up more than two years' service, the right to claim for unfair dismissal in an Employment Tribunal, it would take a very brave - or foolhardy - lawyer - to persuade ...
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April 2013 - Monthly Independent Contractor Compliance And Misclassification ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
North Carolina bill (H.B. 826) introduced in the state House of Representatives on April 10, 2013 seeks to amend that state's labor laws by requiring employers to notify employees in writing of their employment status both at the time of hire and upon ...
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Exposing the LA Port Trucking Cover-Up - CityWatch
City Watch
Most likely, Green Fleet Systems was attempting to inoculate itself from being forced by the courts or the government to comply with basic employment law. It turns out that shortly before the drivers were required to sign these new leases, two of their ...
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"Pay Now Or Pay Much More Later," Warn Federal and State Governments
Forbes
That logic and that warning apply "equally" to paying employees who work for you. Pay what you owe now under the law, or face lawsuits – often class action lawsuits – that demand much more later, plus huge legal fees. May 28, 2013, is the anniversary ...
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The Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver Selects The AR Group ...
PR Web (press release)
The AR Group, a business law and HR services firm, announced today that it was selected to provide employment law and legal support services to the Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver (DHA), the largest housing authority in the Rocky ...
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Snell & Wilmer Attorney Appointed To Work Options For Women Board
Law Week Colorado
Work Options for Women offers a 13-week training course to impoverished and homeless women that prepare them for gainful employment in a prep or line cook position in the food service industry. Its program is focused on assisting women who are ending ...
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Walter, Sheila Umphrey to be honored at Annual Hurricane Party - TheRecordLive
TheRecordLive.com
Umphrey is board-certified in the areas of Personal Injury Trial Law and Labor & Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. He has received numerous professional awards, including being recognized as a Fellow of the International ...
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'Don't give Dr Subra human resources portfolio'
Free Malaysia Today
In the past two years, workers' unions and Subramaniam had clashed over several issues pertaining to issues on workers' rights. Chief of the complaints was when Subramaniam tabled the law to amend the Employment Act 1955, changing the term "contract ...
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Free Malaysia Today
Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP | Legal insight: upcoming employment ...
Linex Legal (registration) (press release)
Legal insight: upcoming employment law changes and how they affect HR - HR Zone There have been major changes in employment law in recent years and this year will see several new reforms that HR professionals need to understand in order to protect ...
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Illegal recruitment cases down
Sun.Star
During the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee (RLECC) meeting held last week, Department of Labor and Employment (Dole) assistant regional director Teodoro Delson said only 52 cases were reported in 2012, down from 73 in 2011.
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AS VP for diversity suspended
Western Front
The suspension will be unpaid and will last from May 16 to 31. In compliance with federal employment laws, the AS is unable to disclose information from the executive session. The AS Personnel Director is authorized to immediately suspend an employee ...
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Court of Appeal upholds oral statement as contractually binding
International Law Office
A group of employees brought legal action to enforce what they asserted was a contractual commitment to provide the balance of their bonuses. In 2012 the High Court ruled that the employees had been wrongfully denied their contractual entitlement to ...
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Record EEOC $240 Million Turkey Farm Workers' Verdict to Be Cut
Businessweek
The amount must fall because federal law caps the total at $50,000 per person if the employer has from 15 to 100 employees for 20 or more weeks of the prior calendar year, the government said in a May 10 court filing. The jury award was the biggest in ...
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Blogs1 new result for Employment Law
 
Legal for Your Boss to Take Your Tips? - Law and Daily Life - FindLaw
By Aditi Mukherji
While it's generally not legal for your boss to confiscate your tips, each case of alleged tip theft is different. You may also want to consult an experienced employment lawyer to hash out the law and figure out how to keep the dough that's legally ...
Law and Daily Life

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Analysts say bill would extend labor law protection to immigrants ...
And while it does not baldly name the labor laws that would immediately cover undocumented workers in the U.S., an immigration law specialist who ...
peoplesworld.org/analysts-say-bill-would-extend-labor-law-pr...
Business, Corporate and Employment Law and Litigation ... - Buffalo
Business, Corporate and Employment Law and Litigation. Our firm represents all types of business entities from sole proprietors to closely held family ...
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Required Labor Law Posters are Free from Labor Department
Idaho businesses are again being solicited by private companies to pay for required labor law posters that the Idaho Department of Labor provides free through ...
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Employment Law Flashcards - Flashcard Exchange
Study Flashcards On Employment Law at Flashcard Exchange. We can help you quickly memorize the terms and more.
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Employment Law | Healy Law | Rhode Island
I apply this same approach to all of my clients' cases, whether they have legal issues involving personal injury, workers' compensation, employment law or the ...
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Controversial NLRB notice posting rule vacated on appeal ...
The D.C. Circuit has vacated a controversial NLRB rule requiring employers to notify employees of their rights under the NLRA, upholding a challenge brought ...
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