Sentences with phrase «case over an employee»

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In such a case, an employee over 50 would be allowed to make a catch - up contribution.

The report's conclusions: The issue most commonly raised in the cases is that an employer has «overbroad policies restricting employee use of social media or that an employer unlawfully discharged or disciplined one or more employees over contents of social media posts.»

Peter Busch grew the company over the past 30 years to a four million case distributor with 690 SKU's, 150 employees and 73 percent market share.

Employees who had worked little if any overtime in years suddenly logged hundreds of extra hours, in some cases well over 1,000.

The following year, after the nationwide scandal over bank employees signing thousands of foreclosure documents without proper review, known as robosigning, broke, New York began requiring plaintiffs in foreclosure cases to affirm the accuracy of their documents.

But there is also the political case: employees should have some say over the decisions which affect their lives - and few affect them more than decisions made in the workplace.

Golub is a high - profile lawyer who has won multi-million-dollar cases and has represented not only the state employee union coalition, but also the state Democratic party in its ongoing legal battle against the State Election Enforcement Commission over the legality of financing of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's re-election campaign.

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

On Top of the News Supreme Court deadlocks over public employee union case; Calif. teachers must pay dues The Washington Post 03/29/2016

The case also became a battle over the power of teacher unions to preserve protections that are not always available to other public employees.

The first referred to the Miramonte case, in which it said «a third grade school employee abusing dozens of students ages 6 to 10, including spoon - feeding semen and semen - laced cookies to blindfolded children, over a period of at least five school years.»

In some cases, the store employees may claim the puppies or kittens are bred by smaller, local breeders or within homes — rather than through large - volume breeders and dealers who may house over 300, 600 or 900 dogs.

The case was brought by five Unions2 under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.3 While the Charter contains no express reference to collective bargaining, over the past ten years, the Supreme Court of Canada has recognized that the right to freedom of association, which is protected by section 2 (d), encompasses the rights of employees to join together to make collective representations to the employer, and to have those representations considered in good faith.

We are more than happy to look over your case and work out if we believe your claim and the claims of fellow employees merit further action.

Loaded with features, capabilities and reports that other case management software systems do not have, SmartAdvocate can reduce workflow, make employees more efficient and give you better control over your practice.

In another case involving a dispute over employees» vacation entitlement, the Supreme Court of Canada has once again ruled in favour of the arbitrator.

«What's interesting is the Twitter account at issue, the TTC had very little control — if any — over the posts that were made,» Mark Mendl, partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP, says, adding this is a new direction as the vast majority of cases out there have dealt with employee posts to social media, not posts by the general public to a company - held account.

It also faced legal fees of $ 67,518 in relation to a human rights case over discrimination against an employee on the basis of disability.

In case you missed it, McCree received a public censure in 2012 over a shirtless cellphone photo that he sent to a female court employee.

The first was the Supreme Court decision in the Rangers Football Club case where, contrary to expectation, the HMRC's arguments over the «suspect» tax efficiency of an employee benefit trust prevailed sparking wide - ranging consequences for many other schemes — a point HMRC have been quick to advertise.

As a result, most employees» cases do not get better over time; they are worth less and become harder to settle.

Over the past 30 years, our firm has fought for justice on the behalf of hundreds of thousands of employees and consumers with Class Action and Employment cases.

She has arbitrated numerous disciplinary cases, been involved in both representing employees and conducting over 1,000 internal investigations, and lectured at numerous labor and employment seminars.

The approach in Johnstone (and the companion case of CNR v. Seeley and Canadian Human Rights Commission, released the day after the Johnstone decision) is the latest development in the continuing debate over the extent of the duty to accommodate employee childcare obligations.

West Coast LEAF intervened in this case, in which the Court was called upon to decide whether a human rights complaint should proceed in situations where the complainant and the respondent are employees of different companies on the same construction site, and the respondent is not in a position of authority over the work of the complainant.

For over 35 years, James Boren has been a Baton Rouge criminal defense attorney who has successfully represented individuals, companies, and company employees in all types of criminal cases and quasi-criminal matters.

On a micro level, this decision ensures that, at least in the case of contracts that do not expressly establish a lifetime retiree medical benefit for covered employees, employers will not be saddled with substantial financial burdens they neither bargained for nor anticipated, and preserves the flexibility needed to bargain over such benefits going forward.

The Court noted that the case before it was not a situation in which a vulnerable employee was being treated unfairly; rather, the employee was sophisticated, had independent legal advice before entering into the agreement, and had bargained over its terms.

In the case of O'Brien v Bolton St Catherine's Academy, the Court of Appeal considered whether it was discriminatory for the employer to have dismissed an employee who had been absent on long term sick leave for well over 12 months.

A former employee filed a lawsuit over the events back in 2006, but the Justice Department declined to join the case.

Cases such as Nethermere (St.Neots) Ltd v Gardiner [1984] IRLR 240, [1984] ICR 612 said that this could arise over time «by regular giving and taking of work over periods of a year or more» and found homeworkers to be employees.

Examples of FRD include cases where a pregnant employee is told to get an abortion if she wishes to remain employed, a less qualified parent without children is promoted over a more qualified parent (typically, this one hits women harder) or a male state trooper is denied leave to care for his newborn and told by his supervisor that his wife would have to be «in a coma or dead» for a man to qualify for leave as the primary caregiver.

For example, this blog has previously looked at cases of employers being found responsible for an employee's past year of service when that employer takes over or otherwise acquires a business, see Two Employers Under One Umbrella Both Get Soaked by Judge.

Shortly thereafter, I had another case where I recommended that the client do the right thing by their deceased employee's family — which would have saved the client money over the long run.

Sunday observance was also raised in the Employment Tribunal case of Ewieda v British Airways plc (2006)(displaying a cross at work) but Ms Ewieda failed with her claim for indirect discrimination on this point, as the Tribunal found that her request for religious observance precedence over other employees would have given her a form of preferential treatment on the grounds of religion.

Courts are becoming increasingly skeptical of such divisions and as the Browning - Ferris case demonstrates, there is a movement towards finding joint control over vulnerable employees.

While the Fair case is reportedly still under appeal, signalling that this case is likely fair from over, if the decision stands it will undoubtedly change most employee's approach to wrongful dismissal cases.

If the case is successful, the attorney may be paid a percentage of the employee's settlement or judgment when the case is over.

In the case of age harassment, this negative treatment is because of the employee's age if he or she is over 40.

The case over whether or not Lyft drivers are employees or independent contractors has come to an end.

Paul has considerable experience of all aspects of employment law, on behalf of both employees and employers and has appeared in employment tribunals all over England and Wales as well as in Scotland, and at all appellate levels up to the Supreme Court where he appeared on his own in the case of Gisda Cyf v Barratt [2010] UKSC 41.

I can tell you from my experience handling workers» compensation cases over the last two decades, one of the biggest reasons injured employees call me is the frustration of a medical system that does not listen to their needs.

The United States has passed a series of laws over the last several decades that are designed to help protect employees in the case of job loss, medical emergencies and retirement.

I'm curious as to whether there have been any Charter cases focussing on employer's «requests», «instructions», «directions» or «threats» to employee (s) over opinions expressed on an employee's personal Facebook page?

The gist of the case is that a bank employee looked up banking information on someone she knew (another bank employee who was in a common - law relationship with the victim's former husband)-- at least 174 times over a 4 year period.

An employer in litigation over former employee's employment contract that provided deferred compensation benefits; case resolved favorably to the employer

In the case of bonus pay, would a disagreement over the entitlement, and subsequently a non-payment, be enough for an employee to claim constructive dismissal?

Trade secrets cases typically arise in the provincial superior courts on issues of employees leaving for competitors, a break down in a contractual relation or applications over handling of private information encompassed within responses under various freedom of information legislation.

In other cases, we see companies who once had a good compliance program in place who have allowed the program to crumble into pieces because either there was no effort to keep the program current, or significant employee turn - over meant that the new team had little to no awareness or understanding of the program requirements.

This has been explained as part of the previous government's «rescue culture» for firms in difficulty, but controversy has been caused here when this has been used in the past to remove TUPE protection from employees involved in a «pre-pack» take - over of an ailing business (though the instant case was not in fact such a transaction).