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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Germany: Right to work without a SSN and National ID number
I am in Germany on a spousal visa. My visa states "Erwerbtätigkeit erlaubt" i.e. I can work here. I have a Steuernummer (tax number) and I have finished my Anmeldung (registration) at the ...
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Can an employer legally help a line manager at an English Employment Tribunal but not tell their employee (claimant) they will do this?
The background
After enduring months of a stressful and toxic work environment marked by harassment, the employee then attended a probationary review (PR) meeting with their line manager.
During the ...
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Can an employee be fired for planning to take FMLA?
In the US, Family and Medical Leave is protected by federal law. Part of the provisions is that you cannot fire an employee for taking FMLA.
Presumably, if an employer was malicious, they would ...
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Do companies have the legal right to reduce your salary?
Let's say you signed an "At will" employment contract. And then lets say the company you work for has a 30% reduction in revenue. Can the company just reduce everyone in the company's salary ...
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In 2013, many news sites reported that a US programmer (Bob) outsourced his work to a company in China. Isn't that illegal?
If you don't know, I'm talking about this:
https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/business/us-outsource-job-china/index.html
NPR and BBC also reported on this.
From what I've read, Bob only got fired by his ...
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Lapse in Coverage By Becoming Disabled From a Pre-Existing Condition at a New Job?
In the US, most job-based health insurance plans include a stipulation which references the pre-existing condition exclusion period:
The time period during which a health plan won't pay for care ...
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Can a 13 year old sole trader employ someone in the UK?
Could a 13 year old sole trader employ someone assuming that they can afford to do so?
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UK Employment Law Regarding errors in employment process and contract [closed]
So I applied for a job that was ranged from mid level/senior with me applying for the senior position with the appropriate salary.
I got through all stages of interview and was hired, but when I got ...
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Such a thing as a bankrupt law
The early 20th century folk song "On the Trail of the Buffalo" tells the story of some cowboys employed by a drover to run buffalo. In Woody Guthrie's 1945 version (video / lyrics) we have ...
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Can an employer determine benefits eligibility based on home address?
Say someone lives in county A, which is in the same state as county B. The Employer, based in the same state as both counties, offers different health insurance plans to someone living in county A ...
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Are developers data processors?
This question is inspired by this other question: What are an employed/contracted software developer's responsibilities under the GDPR?
I wanted to understand more precisely the concept of a data ...
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Implications of subversive harassment [closed]
What are the implications of causing someone distress in some subversive fasion to the extent that they quit their job, get a divorce, run away, leave my establishment, or begin to cause defimation?
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What are an employed/contracted software developer's responsibilities under the GDPR?
This is prompted by this question but that is rather complicated by the technical details. Suppose the following hypothetical:
Alice is a software developer for Bob Inc. perhaps as a normal employee, ...
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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 ...
