Employment-at-Will Doctrine A lot of controversy surrounds the question of whether California is still an at-will state given all the exceptions it has made to the doctrine over the last few decades. Simply stated, the employment-at-will doctrine i Continue Reading...
Employment-at-Will Doctrine Whistleblower policy Employment-at-will is where; an employee employment contract depends on the will of the employer. This means that the employer is free to discharge or fire an employee at his own will. The employer f Continue Reading...
This is when the risks for her will increase, which could have an effect on her ability to find employment in the future. ("The Employment at Will Doctrine," 2011) (Johnson, 2007) ("Set Up Employee Policies for Your Business," 2011) What preventive Continue Reading...
Employment at Will Doctrine At-will employment is actually American Law's doctrine. It states that in the employment relationship, any of the parties involved can break the relationship anytime without any reliability. But only under the condition i Continue Reading...
Employment-at-will doctrine is a term used in the labor law referring to a contractual relationship where an employer can dismiss an employee for any reason and without a warning. When a worker is recognized as being hired based on the employment-at- Continue Reading...
Employment-at-Will Today's working or business environment is increasingly changing and generating several issues that employers have to contend with. These numerous issues have considerable impacts on organizational operations since they affect the Continue Reading...
Employment at Will Thoroughly describe what steps you would take to address the following scenario involving skills, competence, and abilities: • The employee seems to be unable to learn the computer applications that are basic to her job resp Continue Reading...
Employment-at-will doctrine is a law that requires both the employer and the employee to either enter into a contract of employment willfully or terminate such a contract willfully. Under this law, an employer may employ an employee if the employer i Continue Reading...
Labor Law: Collective Bargaining It is set out in 29 U.S.C. § 158: U.S. Code -- Section 158: Unfair Labor Practices that unfair labor practices by an employer include the following: It is an unfair labor practice for an employer to: (1) inter Continue Reading...
Employment at Will: Definitions of Terms The principle of employment-at-will is one of the major concepts governing labor relations in the United States. Employment-at-will is a doctrine that gives employers the liberty to terminate an employee, or c Continue Reading...
Employment at Will Policy: Exceptions to the Rule The notion of 'at will' employment reflects the fact that by law employees can be fired from any job for any cause, good or bad, depending on the whim of the employer, barring a written employment co Continue Reading...
Employment Mary first needs to make it absolutely clear whether she is an employee or independent contractor. In this case, while she may have been hired as an independent contractor, she was later subtly reclassified as an employee. An independent Continue Reading...
Employment Laws The purpose of this research report is to find out the employment laws which are most important to be considered for a Human Resource Department. This research also aims to provide the solutions to avoid the litigation in hiring and Continue Reading...
Chris, have looked at your concerns and after some careful research I feel confident that the answers I am giving you are correct. Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to assist you in this matter. Regarding the first concern: Whet Continue Reading...
Labor Relations What changes are needed for unions to maintain support from their membership, the community, and the employers? In order to maintain support from their membership, the community, and the employers, unions have decided to change the Continue Reading...
Studebaker v. Nettie's Flower Garden, Inc. Plaintiff Judith Studebaker was injured in a car wreck with James Ferry, an employee of defendant Nettie's Flower Garden, Inc. Ferry was responsible for the accident, and Studebaker sought to recover from N Continue Reading...
Employment Law Early in 1978, Ed Harbour picked up a seventeen-year-old female hitchhiker on his truck driving route throughout the state of Indiana. Once he picked her up, he performed some very heinous crimes as he brutally raped and beat her. Aft Continue Reading...
This essay provides a brief overview of several of the key factors in conflict of laws, including the areas where choice of law is likely to be at issue. Domicile Domicile is one of the key factors in choice of law. Domicile is not the same as loc Continue Reading...
At-Will Employment The at-will doctrine has its negatives and its positives. The positive for the at-will employee is that it puts no contractual obligation between employee and employer. Either is free to quit the relationship at any time: the empl Continue Reading...
Little Lamb Company Regarding our recent discussion about potential legal issues which might arise regarding Mary's termination, it must be concluded that, based on the evidence, Mary is clearly an independent contractor. Independent contractors ma Continue Reading...
Sports Law Unlike was the case a few decades ago, sports has today become a multi-million dollar industry. It is this exponential growth in the 'business of sports' that has informed the growing interest in sports law. The legal issues that, in one Continue Reading...
Outsourcing of jobs is one of the most controversial topics in today's business climate. The increase of the Internet and other global communications has made it not only possible, but easier for organizations to use workforces in other regions in wh Continue Reading...
Equal Employment Opportunity The modern history of employment equity begins with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which extended employment equity rights to Americans regardless of gender, religion, national origin, race or color (National Archives, 20 Continue Reading...
Fixtures are considered part of personal property, but in cases where they become a part of real property and cannot be removed, they are considered part of real property. Building on a plot of land is a fixture that is considered part of real prop Continue Reading...
Employee Rights / Safety Employee Rights and Safety: A Case Study The individual in question is now out of a job, due mainly to circumstances that were out of her control. Yes, it is imperative for an organization to punish those who break its poli Continue Reading...
NewCorp Legal Encounter What liabilities and rights do NewCorp and Pat have in this situation? What legal principles, such as statutory or case law, support those liabilities and rights? NewCorp is liable to follow the guidelines of the handbook o Continue Reading...
Fair treatment of workers is a priority for any employee given that it is a right guaranteed by the Constitution and protected by labor laws. Since this right is protected by the Constitution and existing federal and state laws, employers face the ne Continue Reading...
Handbook Disclaimers Negate Contract Status: Employers can use disclaimers to avoid this situation. If employees sign explicit disclaimers that employment is at-will, courts typically find that handbooks don't create long-term employment contracts. Continue Reading...
international laws or aspects of law that must be adhered to by Riordan and an outline of these steps for employees to adhere to these laws This is written with the intention of creating a plan that incorporates the three-pronged framework of the C Continue Reading...
Agency Law What are the essential differences among the relationships of principal and agent, employer and employee and employer and independent contractor? Under contract law, the employer is referred to as the principal and the employee is referr Continue Reading...
Conservatives, on the other hand, have many passions and one of them is a color-blind government. Most of them believe that all policies of discrimination should be discarded. They view these policies as unwise, immoral and unconstitutional. Three c Continue Reading...
NGOs intervention on Child slavery - labor abuse Child labor and slavery is a global problem that has raised concern among various agencies and bodies of governments in different countries. Global organizations like WTO, ILO and GATT among others ha Continue Reading...
Religious Ethics in Comparison Though the three religions reviewed and critiqued in this paper -- Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam -- have very different histories and quite original approaches to ethics, there are also a number of startling simila Continue Reading...
Whitt v Teeter American Business Legal Environment - American Business law is also known as commercial and corporate law. It governs all business and commercial transactions, but most consider it to be a branch of civil law that has evolved into a m Continue Reading...
Compliance and the HR Functions Human Resource function is an important aspect for nearly all organizations regardless of whether they are small or medium-sized organizations with 20-100 and 100-500 employees. The significance of this function is sh Continue Reading...
Employee Privacy Torts Issues relating to employee privacy have been at the forefront of businesses for many years. This has been fuelled by the dynamic workplace which changes constantly and also by employees and employers being more litigation-con Continue Reading...
e. By quitting or staging a work slow down. Employers must treat their employees properly or they will gain a reputation for mistreatment, a notoriety that will likely cause severe damage to their businesses as they will be unable to hire and retain Continue Reading...
Jake's actions are in or out of "his scope of employment." According to the LSU Law Center (1993), "An employee's scope of employment is the activities that the employee may properly carry out and that the employer is expected to supervise." In the Continue Reading...
Economics Government regulations may have played a role in the creation of the crisis, but there were many causes of the crisis and indeed many different negative outcomes. The credit crisis in particular occurred when the financial system began to Continue Reading...
