Questions tagged [employment]
For questions that are about, or that arise as a result of, workplaces or the performance of work-related duties.
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California: loss of vacation time after conversion from PTO to FTO
A few years ago, my employer implemented a flexible time off (FTO) policy where there's no predefined limit to the amount of time you can take off; you just need to get agreement from your manager ...
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Q: Age discrimintation?
Q: Age discrimination?
Can a federal employer post a job opening without mentioning anything about age requirement (between the ages of X-Y at the start of the position)? Adding equal opportunity ...
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Are pledges I made in a job interview binding?
Among some "pro" tips shared in my neighborhood for desperate job seekers is the myth that promising to never unionize drastically improves the chance of landing on a job. If one were to ...
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Is there any requirement to provide a physical payslip on request in Germany?
Currently my employer requires employees to log-in to a website to download our monthly pay-slips. I find this frustrating as I receive no notification that a new payslip has been generated, and must ...
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Can a person agree not to disclose how their employment ended?
Can an employer fire an employee without cause and tell them that the reason for his departure from the company is strictly confidential? What if it's part of a settlement agreement? For example if ...
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Pay Transparency Law broken by company that hired me in Connecticut. Any recourse? [closed]
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Applied to a company, got hired for a below average salary for my profession, realized they broke a law by not disclosing the salary range for the position. Can I do anything about it?
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Did Elon Musk have a legal justification for firing CEO Parag Agrawal for cause right after closing the Twitter deal?
According to Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk, immediately after closing the deal that took Twitter private, Elon Musk's assistant delivered letters of dismissal to the Twitter CEO and ...
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USA Employment Law: Job Search with Moonlighting
I am a Software Developer contractor but I also want to have my own side-hustle business. This side hustle business might contain programming, research or developing new software products. However, it ...
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Can ex-employer ask/require in a severance agreement that if I plan to disclose information about the severance agreement, I must tell them first?
Can a severance agreement ask/force an employee to inform the ex-employer if they plan to disclose the severance agreement?
My understanding is that the National Labor Relations Act allows me to share ...
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Can a government lawyer's duty of loyalty be ended in Canada?
I assume the following:
A lawyer employed by the Government of Canada (GC) has an attorney-client relationship with GC.
The "attorney" is the lawyer, the "client" is "...
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Are anti-piercing (like a nose ring) rules by employer sueable?
I suppose employers can enforce dress codes, but they also can't obviously discriminate against people who have piercings or tattoos. So, what's the line here? If an employer requests an employee to ...
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Why are Hollywood studios permitted to collectively bargain with employees, and what are the limits of this apparent antitrust exemption?
Employers are generally not allowed to coordinate in any way which limits the normal competition for employees. Further, trade associations are not generally permitted to act in ways which would ...
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Can a truck driving company (USA) use an outward facing camera as an inward facing (in-cab) camera without driver's consent/knowledge?
Trucking company has outward facing cameras which drivers are aware of. However, no official company (written) policy was provided about the outward facing cameras recordings, usage, or storage. Now? ...
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If one loses their job while outside the US, is their worker visa immediately revoked?
Suppose a foreign citizen was working in the US on a non-immigrant worker visa. While they were enjoying their summer break outside the US, they receive an email noting that he had just been ...
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Question Concerning Responding to Employer of Minor Daughter Paid Under Minimum Wage [closed]
My high school daughter worked for about a year for an employer who owns a tutoring company in our town. Due to friction between my daughter and the employer, my daughter recently quit but she ...
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Can companies use code that I wrote during a coding interview in their products?
Suppose a company's programmers are struggling to code a portion of a complex program. HR orders the questions of an upcoming interview to be replaced with that of the unfinished complex program. It ...
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Can I opt out of UK Working Time Regulations daily breaks?
The Working Time Regulations 1998, PART II, Regulation 10 says
Daily rest
10.—(1) An adult worker is entitled to a rest period of not less than eleven consecutive hours in each 24-hour period during ...
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Tuition Reimbursement - No signed Clawback Policy
I have worked for my current employer for 18 months and have been in grad school the entire time. I read the Employee Handbook the first day and honestly do not remember if or what was included in the ...
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What is the legal age of retirement in IT companies in India
I am aware that retirement age for government employees in India is 58.
But what is the legal retirement age in IT/Software companies in India?
If someone wants to work till 70 ( assume he is fit &...
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Unwanted TUPE Transfer
Suppose that Law Firm A has a team of solicitors dedicated to Client X. Client X decides to procure from Law Firm B instead, and there is a service provision change under TUPE. The team of solicitors ...
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What laws define resident and employee rights and protections on federal land, esp. administered by the National Park Service?
How do you look up which laws apply to people who live, work, operate businesses, etc., on a particular parcel of U.S. federal land, especially on land administered by the National Park Service?
How ...
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Does running your own limited liability company constitute employment? [closed]
What exactly is "employment"? Does running my own limited liability company (GmbH or similar) constitute "employment"?
I am asking this because my (Swiss) employment contract (...
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Is my employer allowed to make me work without pay?
As the title says: A coworker and I had recently made a mistake at work. In response to this, our manager decides we have to work for two extra hours on our next shifts unpaid. Is this legal?
I work ...
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can i write in my portfolio about a critical security bug in my last job? [closed]
I want to write about how i found a critical security bug when i was working at a company. Am going to stop working there in about a month and was just updating my portfolio with the things i did ...
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Is it legal for employers to charge for training if you leave too soon?
Apparently, some employers are requiring new employees to sign a contract that says, “We will provide training. You must work here for at least N months. If you leave before that, you will have to pay ...
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What rights does a German works council have with respect to a longterm unfilled position?
Situation, a department head left the company. The company is looking for a replacement by advertising the position and hiring a head hunter. Unfortunately this didn't work out (so far) and the ...
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Contract work - is signing an offer before seeing the contract binding?
I'm new to working as a contractor, and have just been offered a contract-to-hire position through a contracting company for a specific client. Notably, I have not seen the actual contract I would be ...
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Can you be fired for refusing to lie?
If your employer asks you to lie about something, and telling the lie is legal, but you refuse on moral grounds, can they fire you? Does it matter if religious beliefs are involved? (For example, if a ...
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In the US, why are companies giving big "let go" package to people they want to let go?
It is shown in movies and is probably true, such as in the movie Jobs about Steve Jobs, that when he came back to Apple as the CEO, he found out who was not productive or who were probably not inline ...
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Deduction of relocation payment from last paycheck of terminated employee [duplicate]
Can an employer deduct the payment of relocation expenses from the last paycheck of a terminated employee in Illinois?
Assume the employee is being terminated before the time period specified in the ...
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