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Imagine if you could hire someone to do all those pesky chores that you always hate to do — pick up the dry cleaning, make the kids’ lunches, finally set up your online bill payments, asks WalletPop .
One of the biggest obstacles to negotiating severance pay is workplace misconduct. Typically, if misconduct is discovered by your employer, even if you are being let go for reasons unrelated to your performance, you will not be eligible for severance pay.
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The Faithless Servant Doctrine and Severance Pay
It has been reported that draft legislation has been passed by a committee of the European Parliament, which extends maternity leave across Europe from 14 weeks to 20 weeks on full pay. In the UK women get 52 weeks statutory maternity leave (26 weeks Ordinary Maternity Leave and 26 Additional Maternity Leave) of which the first 6 weeks are on 90% pay, followed by 33 weeks on Statutory maternity pay, which is currently 124.88 a week
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Plans for extended maternity rights
The flurry of activity on LinkedIn, as folks made a batch of new connections, gave a clue that there was news. Later, the Alliance@IBM/CWA web site started reporting that a IBM was going through a series of layoffs. “Resource action” is the neologism that’s used to when they’re trying to get you to believe that it’s about something more important than the fact that you’re losing your job.
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The following is a guest blog article by Dolan Law Offices : Approximately 36% of people with disabilities who are of working age and live in the community are employed. This means that more than 8.5 million disabled people are working in the United States. While some of these people have been disabled their entire lives, others were just victims of serious personal injury accidents which caused their disabilities
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Returning to Work After a Serious Personal Injury Accident
Are local governments shutting down home based Independent Contractor positions? Government entities (state and Federal) have a vested interest in making sure as many people as possible are classified as “employees”. That makes sure 1) Withholding taxes are collected for state and federal income taxes “off the top” from the employer
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Are Local Governments Shutting Down Home Based Independent Contractor Jobs?
The plaintiff, Diane Gorzynski, brought forth claims alleging hostile work enviornment , age and sex discrimination , as well as retaliation for complaints of race and age discrimination, against JetBlue, her employer. Gorzynski v. JetBlue Airways, Corp.
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New York Federal Appellate Court Rules that Employee Claiming Sexual Harassment May not be Required to Complain to Multiple Managers about Harassment
The recent media controversy about Gordon Browns alleged bullying of staff at Number 10 Downing Street has thrown the spotlight on an important issue for every employer: how to deal with bullying in the workplace? The two main forms of workplace abuse are harassment and bullying. Generally speaking, a harasser demeans an individual because of their age, sex, race, disability, sexuality or religion whereas a bully may be offensive, insulting or threatening for no apparent reason
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Bullying at Work: lessons to be learned from the allegations against Gordon Brown
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Free [Data Entry Jobs] Earn $50 Free To Join – Work At Home – freeandpowerful System
The Department of Work and Pensions has published guidance to help employers use the new fit note and assist more staff to return to work following periods of ill health. The guidance has been published after extensive consultation with medical representatives and business groups and is intended to help employers understand the information that will be provided on the notes and how this will affect return to work policies. The new fit notes, which are set to replace the traditional doctors sick notes, will be implemented on 6 April and will ask GPs to state whether individuals are ‘unfit to work’ or ‘may be fit for work taking account of the following advice’
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Guidance on fit-notes for employers published
A new report by WorkLife Law provides a detailed picture of the current state of FRD litigation, including a 400% increase in the number of cases filed and an average verdict of more than $500,000. The report also describes common fact patterns that lead to FRD claims, shows the number of FRD cases filed in each state, and provides numerous case examples.
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Family Responsibilities Discrimination Litigation Update 2010
A recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (which covers New York, Connecticut and Vermont) clarified the “academic requirements condition” pertaining to the FLSA’s professional exemption.
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Second Circuit Considers Academic Requirements for FLSA Professional Exemption
An employment tribunal has held that employees should be allowed to carry over annual leave entitlement to the next year when they have been too ill to take it. This is the first employment tribunal to look at paid holiday and sick leave since two major decisions from the European Court of Justice were given on the issue last year , Pereda v Madrid Movilidad and Stringer v HMRC
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Holiday leave lost due to illness may be carried over to next year
It has recently been revealed that a serial litigant is believed to have earned thousand of pounds by submitting age discrimination claims against companies who placed advertisements using the words school leaver or recent graduate. The serial litigant did not apply for the jobs he simply submitted his claim online and then contacted the companies requesting a settlement from them in return for him withdrawing his claim and dealing with closing formalities.
FTC 2/17/2010 Press Release: Scams Prey on Victims of the Recession With Bogus Job, Money-Making Schemes The Federal Trade Commission today announced a new crackdown on con artists who are preying on unemployed Americans with job-placement and work-at-home scams, promoting empty promises that they can help people get jobs in the federal government, as movie extras, or as mystery shoppers; or make money working from their homes stuffing envelopes or assembling ornaments. FTC Warning About Job Scams: With the U.S. unemployment rate just under 10 percent, the FTC is redoubling its efforts to put a stop to these schemes, which make life even more difficult for hundreds of thousands of Americans already wrestling with the economic downturn.
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FTC Cracks Down on Con Artists Who Target Jobless Americans
I was interested to read recently that the Business Software Alliance (BSA) offers rewards of up to 10,000 to whistleblowers who report their employers use of illegally copied or under-licensed IT software. Last year the BSA received 420 reports from whistleblowers. Disgruntled IT staff are a common source of BSA whistleblowers, including those who have been denied pay rises or made redundant during the recession. The BSA operates a strict confidentiality policy, meaning that whistleblowers are guaranteed anonymity and the whistleblower is not obliged to report the alleged wrongdoing to the employer first. However, due to loopholes in the Public Interest Disclosure Act regime, a whistleblower may well lose the wider protection it affords against detriment and dismissal if they do not report the problem to the employer first. According to the BSA, which is funded by technology companies including Microsoft, Adobe, McAfee, IBM and Siemens, an estimated 1.5bn per year is lost from illegal copying, sharing or distribution of business software in the UK alone. Small to medium sized businesses are the worst culprits; they often do not really appreciate that when they purchase business software, they are not buying the software as such, they are actually buying one or more licenses to use that software. A business which under-represents the number of users that it has will be guilty of illegal under-licensing. In 2008, the BSA recovered around 2m in payments from companies caught illegally using software. Do you think the BSA should offer financial incentives to whistleblowers in this manner
As a regular visitor of WhyDoWork.com you may have noticed us pushing a contest sponsored by the US Department of Labor designed to seek out the best employment resources on the net. The top voted sites were to be included on the Department of Labor’s job site Careeronestop.org.
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US Department of Labor: Work at Home Jobs Do Not Exist.
Under the current sexual orientation regulations, religious organisations can restrict employment for the purposes of an organised religion to those of a particular sexuality (usually heterosexual) to comply with religious doctrine or to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a significant number of the religion’s followers due to the nature of the employment and the context in which it is carried out.
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Equality Bill: religious organisations and sexual orientation
This week (1 st to 5 th February 2010) is National Apprenticeship Week.The week, which is organised by the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS), aims to celebrate the talents and skills of apprentices and recognise their employers. The Government aims to increase the number of apprenticeships available in the future, seeing it as a crucial way of reducing the proportion of 16- to 18-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEETs). The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has said: we will continue to expand apprenticeships with the ambitious goal that within the next 10 years, one in five young people should be able to take up an apprenticeship. And we are committed to providing an apprenticeship place for every suitably qualified 16-18 year old from 2013 and increasing the number of advanced apprenticeships so that those in vocational learning have clear routes to progress in their careers
A recent study by the SBA found that when unemployment is high, the number of sole proprietorships goes up. Some people who are laid off from their jobs decide to start small businesses. If you find yourself in such circumstances — out of a job and thinking about starting a business — chances are you won’t have much money to start up with
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10 Bizs You Can Start With Little Capital