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Texas Supreme Court : OK For a Company to be a Menace to the Public

Under a Texas Supreme Court ruling delivered last Friday, a trucker fired for refusing to drive an unsafe vehicle — saying he feared for himself and other drivers — may have fared better in the...

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Breach of Employment Contract

Before starting work, employees usually must sign employment contracts. These contracts signify a mutual understanding of salary or wages, job expectations, job titles, and other important issues...

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Employers Beware: Electronic Overtime Suits Increase

Those smartphones and BlackBerrys that enable work anytime, anywhere are increasingly blurring the lines between work life and personal life introducing the sticky issue of when overtime is owed to...

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Misuse of Criminal Checks Could Land Employers in Court

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sent a warning to businesses: Conduct criminal background checks at your own risk. Companies that ask job applicants if they’ve been convicted of a...

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'Wage Theft' on the rise since the recession

Since the most recent downturn, a growing number of employers have violated wage and labor laws.  Employers have increasingly denied workers benefits and mandatory overtime pay, according to workers’...

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Are Employer Arbitration Agreements Still Enforceable?

For a long time now, courts have had a great affection for arbitration agreements. Courts will typically defer to an arbitration agreement and have even held that the question of whether an arbitration...

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Violence in the workplace

It is difficult to start the New Year without reflecting on the violent tragedies of the past year: the Newtown, Connecticut shooting; the Aurora, Colorado theater shootings; and the two separate...

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Installers being shorted on overtime by being misclassified as independent...

On September 19, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Internal Revenue Service.  The memorandum’s goal was to end businesses misclassifying employees...

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Subway Franchise Facing Lawsuit for Unpaid Overtime

A former Subway employee has filed a lawsuit in Washington D.C. against his former employer for unpaid overtime wages. Erwin Zambrano Moya claims that his employer created fictional workers and put...

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Injury data made public on a government website

Beginning this month, January 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires employers to notify the government within 24 hours every time someone gets admitted to the hospital with...

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