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Would staggered layoffs circumvent the WARN Act's protection against mass layoffs?
The U.S. federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN) states that employers with 100 or more employees must provide at least 60 days advance notice before a mass layoff affecting 50 or more ...
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Is there anything illegal about working for another party while on paid leave from one's job?
Meet Bob. Bob has 20 days' paid leave from his work. When he is taking this time off and being paid for it, is there anything wrong with him doing other paid work for another person or company?
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Can an employer REQUIRE a foreign W-8 sub-contractor to have a US/stateside bank account for the employer to submit payment for services?
As an employer receiving services from a foreign individual (W-8BEN completed), can the employer require the W-8 employee to have a US bank account to send their contracted payroll?
I don't think that ...
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How can I legally avoid recruiting a specific nationality/ethnicity?
Suppose I have a tech company and I don't want to recruit people of a specific nationality (say, Hungarian) or ethnicity (say, East Indian).
Is there any legal way to do that?
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Can English accent be part of discrimination?
Suppose, a tech company in the USA uses AI software to test if a candidate has a certain accent (e.g. standard American accent, Southern British accent, etc.). The candidate has to attain a certain ...
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Is it legal to blanket prohibit outside employment?
I live in Texas. Our labor laws are some of the worst. However, even here I think a blanket clause from a startup that prohibits outside employment sounds fishy. Researching this I found the Texas ...
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Do employees in training require identification?
I got hired at a new job recently at a local business and I asked them when I needed to give them my SSN, and they said they didn't need it until after the first week of paid training. I asked them if ...
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What (if any) crime is it to keep using a tool owned by a company after you no longer work there?
This question is partially based on a question on workplace but to make it more easily answerable I will specify some of the circumstances more.
Suppose an employee is issued a computer to use for his ...
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In Florida, is there a law which causes restaurants refuse to hire minors, or to forbid minors to operate some equipment?
The 2021 Florida Statues state,
(2) No minor under 18 years of age, whether such person’s disabilities
of nonage have been removed, shall be employed or permitted or
suffered to work in any of the ...
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Are individuals who identify as non-human animals members of a protected class?
This question is inspired by the following question over on Academia.SE: Should students' nonhuman identity be taken seriously in classroom settings?
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...
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Are there really US federal laws involving immigration that result in fake job interviews?
On this page someone answered the question “Do employers waste time interviewing people?” with the following:
yes
often it is to conform to federal guidelines - so they are directed to higher the CEO’...
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How enforceable (and which parties) does my No Compete Cover?
I have a question about the validity of a no-compete with the company that I work for.
Basically, COMPANY B is a US-based company with an office in the UK, where I am based (although the role is ...
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I was offered a job, but the contract concerns me
I have been offered a job, but while looking over the contract I found a paragraph that concerns me. I don't want to lose the right to any software that I write or develop outside of the company that ...
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What's to stop me from declaring my work place a church to justify discriminatory hireing practices?
There are exemptions for religious institutions when it comes to hiring. They are allowed to refuse to hire someone due to their religion, sex, and presumably most other categories of people usually ...
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Can a racist business owner legally get away with saying he only wants to hire people that 'look white'?
This is a belated follow up to an earlier question where I asked how one can get away with hiring actors of an appropriate race when BFOQ (Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications) exceptions do not ...
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