Archive for the ‘Employment Law’ Category
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
More and more employees are finding out that pouring their heart out on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or any other social networking medium, could prove very costly when they file sexual harassment, gender discrimination or any other employment-related lawsuits.
Corporate employment and labor lawyers are getting extremely Net savvy. They know there ...
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Going by Debrahlee Lorenzana’s account, the men working at a Citibank office in New York are either sexually repressed Neanderthals, or have spent much of their life in a cloistered Middle Eastern country. The 33-year-old single mother is taking her former employer to court for firing her because she was ...
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Religious discrimination claims are not new to California employment lawyers. However, a new lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles court involves an employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California and his discussions of intelligent design, the idea that an intelligent being is responsible for the creation of the universe. ...
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
The practice of using credit checks to screen an employee before hiring him or her, has been a widespread one for years now. However, the practice has become even more popular during a recession in which millions of Americans are suffering from poor credit, many of them through no fault ...
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
More and more people in California have doctors’ recommendations for medicinal marijuana use. While many states allow the prescription of marijuana for such uses and protect users from state criminal charges, they do not protect these people from the risk of being fired because of marijuana use.
CNN has a report ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Throughout my career as a computer lawyer, I have worked as both an independent contractor and an employee. From a worker's perspective, the two situations are quite different. Employers often try to classify employees as independent contractors to save money.
The practice of misclassifying bonafide employees as independent contractors is one ...
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