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Excerpted from Indiana Employment Law Letter and written by an attorney at the law firm of Baker & Daniels by Stuart R. Buttrick Although the types of misconduct that employees can engage in is unlimited, some disciplinary issues occur over a... More...

After the Supreme Court ruled against Lilly Ledbetter, the Congress got busy passing the Ledbetter Act. With a Democratic majority and president, it was passed into law this year. Section III of the Ledbetter Act amends Title VII as follows: For p... More...

There is a growing concern in the legal profession that resorting to litigation to resolve a dispute is a 'cure worse than the illness'. Like it or not, litigation is not about to disappear any time soon from the horizon and in some instances, litiga... More...

As "Hurricane Danny" blew into the room, 15 spines stiffened. This included Phil´s, a key member on the high productivity group of long-term employees making up Danny´s "team" and a 20 year veteran with the company. Every one was wonderin... More...

Why Go Horizontal? Three years ago, Liz Claiborne´s Special Markets Business was in trouble. This operating division, which produced several brands of apparel, was underperforming. According to Lisa Piovano Machacek, director of HR for Liz C... More...

Excerpted from Arkansas Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Jack, Lyon & Jones, P.A. Q: I recently hired a female employee who has been making sexual advances toward several of her male and female coworkers. She has mad... More...

Dear Joan: I believe most employees are familiar with the general provisions (of ADA), but there is one question that comes up frequently that management seems reluctant to address. We all understand that more allowances are made for employe... More...

In the past few months, there have been close to fifty labor strikes at Foreign Invested Enterprises (FIE) in Vietnam, and many employees have walked off their jobs at foreign factories. As a result, the Ho Chi Min City government has announced... More...

The Supreme Court, probing the meaning of employer retaliation against workers who complain of discrimination, appeared to be looking for a middle ground: a supervisor´s insulting snub probably would not be serious enough, but a temporary suspe... More...

If there is anything that the typical clever lawyer does right, it is to shy away from offering tax advice to his clients. For years, the question of taxability of the attorney´s fee earned on an employment case has been particularly perplexing... More...

Excerpted from West Virginia Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. Trouble employees - everyone has them. Employers are constantly faced with situations in which employees create unnecessary problems... More...

The South Korean Parliamentary Committee recently proposed a new regulation that outlines guidelines for company hiring policies with regard to non-regular and regular workers. The regulation restricts discrimination among non-regular... More...

China´s National People´s Congress (NPC) issued a draft of a new Labor Contract Law on March 20, 2006. After the draft was announced, several foreign companies expressed concern because the new regulation will give more po... More...

On March 8, 2006, the Deputy Secretary of Security of Hong Kong, Michael Wong, announced that the law barring expatriate spouses from obtaining a job in Hong Kong would be abolished. In 2003, the Hong Kong government issued a restrict... More...

Excerpted from Maryland Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P. Anyone who has spent time in downtown Baltimore over the past several months has become acutely aware of the activ... More...

Workplace complaint investigations are a necessary part of every human resource practice. When the investigation is over, we breathe a sigh of relief and, all too often, put it behind us. If we never go back, however, we miss an important... More...

Managing an organization´s company cars and trucks is just one of the many tasks that can fall under the HR umbrella. Even when HR doesn´t have direct responsibility for the corporate fleet, it´s very likely that developing, communi... More...

One of the largest sexual harassment lawsuits ever brought against a corporation was filed January 9, 2006 in the United States District Court in Manhattan. The suit was filed by six women bankers at Dresdner Klienwort Wasserstein Services; the Ameri... More...

In December 2005, the Japan Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (MHLW) reminded all labor bureaus in Japan that workers can receive compensation for any mental illness relating to sexual harassment in the workplace. The MHLW´s reminder c... More...

A natural disaster is about to strike. It has never happened before so don´t expect people to be prepared. Nay sayers have even popped up claiming that the disaster isn´t going to happen. But meteorologists have assured community leaders ... More...

"Off-the-clock" conduct is increasingly resulting in costs to employers. Additionally, off-duty conduct that has long added to cost for employers (such as smoking or other unhealthy conduct) is now being identified and measured. In an att... More...

Q: Our company's cleaning crew recently found bullets on the floor while cleaning. We're concerned about our employees' safety and whether we have the right to search employees' lockers or personal items. Would such a search expose us to li... More...

The Korean Supreme Court will introduce a new mediation system for labor disputes in the court system in September 2005. The mediation system will be implemented on a trial basis in the Seoul Central District Court, and in four other ... More...

What are the biggest employee-relations errors employers make these days? And how can you defuse these potential time bombs before they explode into costly disputes? Here´s a quick overview of the top five employer mistakes and how to avoid the... More...

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