Sentences with phrase «more of an employment law»

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Immigrants who avoid ICE face the possibility of exploitation by employers: A 2008 survey from the National Employment Law Project found that 51 % of all undocumented workers in New York City were underpaid by more than $ 1 per hour, and 47 % said they were required to work after sustaining an injury on the job.

The case raises an array of labour relations and employment law questions that will surely be answered in the weeks and months ahead as more information comes to light.

According to Karen Elliot, an employment law attorney at Sands Anderson, if you have more than 20 employees and use Twitter as the primary means of job postings, you could be hit with a claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Acemployment law attorney at Sands Anderson, if you have more than 20 employees and use Twitter as the primary means of job postings, you could be hit with a claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment AcEmployment Act of 1967.

The first miracle is that our daughter, who has one more semester of law school left, has actually received an employment offer from a well - respected law firm.

Any Employee regularly employed on a full - time or part - time (20 hours or more per week on a regular schedule) basis, or on any other basis as determined by the Corporation (if required under applicable local law) for purposes of the Non-423 Plan or any separate offering under the Code Section 423 Plan, by the Corporation or by any Designated Affiliate on an Entry Date shall be eligible to participate in the Plan with respect to the Offering Period commencing on such Entry Date, provided that the Committee may establish administrative rules requiring that employment commence some minimum period (e.g., one pay period) prior to an Entry Date to be eligible to participate with respect to the Offering Period beginning on that Entry Date.

Franchisee Compliance Training: It is more important than ever to ensure that restaurant owners, whether independent proprietors or franchisees for major brands, are knowledgeable of California's complex labor and employment laws.

«More than 30 years after explicit sex - based classifications in family, employment, and benefits law were held to violate the Constitution or statutory prohibitions on discrimination, the vast majority of different - sex couples still divide responsibilities along gendered lines,» she notes.

In a news release the National Employment Law Project refers to state proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 and then tie future increases to the rate of inflation a «more modest proposal» — which is probably news to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the main backer of the bill since January.

Tsedeye Gebreselassie of the National Employment Law Project, Senator Daniel Squadron, and 32BJ SEIU President Hector Figueroa, joined us to talk more about the issue of income inequality and the effort to build support for higher wages.

Senator John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, is one of several Senators who report earning more than $ 100,000 a year from outside employment, in his case also a law firm.

Government needs to recognise that small firms are willing to pay more for apprentices, but it is the burden of employment law and a lack of guidance which stops them from taking one on.

The left's support for the EU relies on a variety of arguments, including an association with internationalism, a power - base to counteract US influence in foreign affairs, the source of more progressive penal and employment laws than in the UK and as a vehicle for ensuring peace in Europe.

The report focuses on increasing awareness of the problem, expanding treatment through insurance coverage, providing better treatment programs, employment and diversion programs for recovering addicts, and giving law enforcement more leeway to fight drug trafficking.

The main reason is the so call American Dream, in other words, the expectation to achieve a socioeconomic level that agrees with a market economy which fulfills the necessity of having and getting more material satisfiers, this means, to have more and better goods and services, mainly made (ironic and paradoxically) in the countries they come from; where environmental restrictions, employment protection, and other laws, are minimal.

During her tenure, she accumulated more than 10 years of extensive experience working with employment law and labor relations.

By learning Business Law, students get equipped with the knowledge of income tax planning for the business, comprehensive business transaction planning, employment and successful planning and much more.

While employment and privacy laws preclude us from discussing the circumstances surrounding the departure of any individual no longer with the company, we can confirm that the employee in question worked for us a total of 90 days, whereas Darksiders II was more than 2 1/2 years in development.

Internet laws and the legal consequences of social media are covered by this blog, along with more general labor & employment and regulatory issues.

Despite flexible working being enshrined in law for over 20 years (under section 80F of the Employment Rights Act in 1996), it is only recently that it has become less of a «nice to have» and more deeply engrained in the legal sector.

More recently, the courts have changed their position on this point; while a sale is still considered to result in termination of employment, the law presumes that an employee of the vendor who is hired by the purchaser is entitled to have his or her time spent in employment with the vendor taken into account for reasonable notice purposes, absent express agreement to the contrary.

The Law requires that employers weigh the following factors to determine if a criminal conviction has a direct relationship to the job or presents an unreasonable risk: the public policy of New York State to encourage employment of persons previously convicted of one or more criminal offenses

With the rare experience of helping entertainment companies plan and orchestrate concerts and festivals across the U.S. and around the globe, John built the model for a practice group that caters to live music festivals and similar events, with a «soup to nuts» suite of legal services spanning complicated personal injury litigation, construction, bid protests, breach of contract, Dram Shop laws, employment, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and more.

Post-Graduation Goals According to the ABA law graduate employment data, more than half of employed law students choose to work at law firms, and I would assume that only a small subset of the 14.6 % who choose to go into «Business & Industry» are entrepreneurs.

Over the past decade, Roper Greyell has grown from a core group of nine employment and labour lawyers to a complement of more than 31 lawyers who are nationally and internationally recognized in the field of workplace law.

Robert Bonhomme focuses his practice on employment, labour, administrative and civil law, and more particularly on all aspects of labour relations, both collective and individual, across Canada.

Instead it suggests that the current Delphic statutory definition of «who is an employee» (namely someone who works under a contract of employment) should be replaced by a more detailed statutory definition reflecting the criteria which has been developed by case law such as the requirement for «mutual obligation» and «control».

He has co-authored numerous specialized works in the field including Wrongful Dismissal in Quebec, Le congédiement en droit québécois en matière de contrat individuel de travail, Le contrat de travail en vertu du Code civil du Québec, The Employment Contract under the Civil Code of Quebec, 14 Questions Frequently Asked in Quebec Labour & Employment Law and More Questions Frequently Asked in Quebec Labour & Employment Law.

Much of what we take for granted in modern law firms — hourly billable targets, ever - increasing workloads, lengthening partnership tracks, client hoarding by partners, and more — can be traced at least in part to firms» established ability to dictate the terms of employment to a fairly low - cost and easily leveraged labour pool.

In its view, if greater emphasis was placed on «control» and less on personal service, this would lead to more people being protected by employment law and make it harder for employers to «hide behind» substitution clauses: clauses which can undermine employee status by allowing the individual to substitute personal service for the service of others.

Law firms in Manitoba find they are also getting more work not only locally but also from central Canada for things like employment law says Bob Sokalski of Hill Sokalski Walsh Trippier LLaw firms in Manitoba find they are also getting more work not only locally but also from central Canada for things like employment law says Bob Sokalski of Hill Sokalski Walsh Trippier Llaw says Bob Sokalski of Hill Sokalski Walsh Trippier LLP.

For the law graduate and / or for persons already professionally qualified in the legal profession, the qualification of «Attorney - at - Law» will undoubtedly make you more marketable within a competitive profession and greatly enhance your employment opportunities at home and abrolaw graduate and / or for persons already professionally qualified in the legal profession, the qualification of «Attorney - at - Law» will undoubtedly make you more marketable within a competitive profession and greatly enhance your employment opportunities at home and abroLaw» will undoubtedly make you more marketable within a competitive profession and greatly enhance your employment opportunities at home and abroad.

If a claim meets the necessary test, that the injury arose out of or in the course of employment, if it arises out of a sudden and unexpected traumatic event, or even if chronic stress has arisen based upon an accumulation of work - related stressors which appear to be compensable based on more recent case law, the WSIB can grant entitlement.

At Clarkslegal we have a team of specialist employment law solicitors who offer legal advice and support to both employers and individuals, more importantly they understand that issues arising in the workplace fall into one of two categories:

Lawyers who temporarily leave the practice of law and do not take any alternate employment may be eligible to apply for exemption from... Read More»

Ontario employment laws are going to become more strict in this regard, which means employers must be more aware of the nature of their relation with independent contractors.

The employment could be structured to make the application of English mandatory laws more likely.

Ed Stacey, head of employment law at PwC, said: «The fact Equal Pay Day is only one day later than last year shows there is still much more work to be done to close the gender gap.

J. Black is an accomplished trial lawyer and appellate attorney with more than 17 years of experience in all aspects of state and federal labor and employment law.

For more information or for assistance in fulfilling your AODA obligations, contact a member of the Employment Law group at DLA Piper (Canada) LLP.

Watch some of our videos to learn more about our attorneys and employment law in LA.

Given the Courts decision in Keenan v Canac, it is more important than ever for both employees and employers to seek employment law advice not only upon termination but also at the initiation of an employment relationship.

She is a voting member of MBA Council, the immediate past chairwoman of the MBA Labour & Employment Law Section, past chairwoman of the MBA Law Day Committee and more.

The online resource, which has been in development for more than two years, draws on a database of thousands of cases assembled by lawyers and paralegals, covering all aspects of employment law.

Given this history, Bloomberg's announcement last August that it would acquire BNA — with its highly regarded collection of materials covering labor and employment, tax and accounting, intellectual property, banking and securities, human resources, environmental law, health care and more — promised to narrow that gap in secondary resources.

Mike Fox takes time out from a blogging hiatus to congratulate George's Employment Blawg on its upgrade and to welcome professor «Rick Bales, professor at the University of Northern Kentucky Chase School of Law, who has taken over as editor of the LaborProf Blog and retitled it to fit more accurately the broader area that he intends to address, The Workplace Prof Blog.»

Law schools will now report nuanced employment data that will be more useful, and of course admissions officers will play major roles in communicating this information and ensuring that it is understood.

Employment lawyer Nadine Côté says she's seeing a trend of more law firms hiring income partners.

Since the inception of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and several additional anti-discriminatory laws such as the Equal Pay Act (EPA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the more recent Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA)-- diversity should be embraced by all organizations who employ workers.

On December 4, 2012, the Saskatchewan government tabled Bill No. 85, An Act respecting Employment Standards, Occupational Health and Safety, Labour Relations and Related Matters and making consequential amendments to certain Acts (hereinafter referred to as the Saskatchewan Employment Act) in the hope of consolidating 12 employment and labour - related laws, restructuring existing provisions, eliminating inconsistencies, and more accurately reflect contemporary employment relaEmployment Standards, Occupational Health and Safety, Labour Relations and Related Matters and making consequential amendments to certain Acts (hereinafter referred to as the Saskatchewan Employment Act) in the hope of consolidating 12 employment and labour - related laws, restructuring existing provisions, eliminating inconsistencies, and more accurately reflect contemporary employment relaEmployment Act) in the hope of consolidating 12 employment and labour - related laws, restructuring existing provisions, eliminating inconsistencies, and more accurately reflect contemporary employment relaemployment and labour - related laws, restructuring existing provisions, eliminating inconsistencies, and more accurately reflect contemporary employment relaemployment relationships.

It is a long, thoughtful, well - supported post, delving fairly deeply into the factors leading to the relative paucity of female arbitrators and mediators outside the «Pink Ghetto,» which is not a lesbian bar, but, in the context of the ADR world, a term used to refer to the kinds of cases that are commonly thought to require more emotion than reason — family law, employment law and trusts and estates.