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Tagged with workplace employment
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What rights does an employee retain, if any, who does not consent to being monitored on a work IT system?
I am interested in privacy at the interface between one's personal and professional lives. This question is adjacent, but not identical to others related to IT system use (1, 2). Given a workplace IT ...
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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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In Ratatouille, did Linguini have a legally legitimate reason to fire Skinner?
In Ratatouille, when Linguini took over Gusteau's by proving he inherited the restaurant, Skinner seemingly lost his job. Was there legal precedent for Skinner to lose his job; would Skinner hiding ...
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Work time when unable to work due to power outage (germany)
I'm working in an office space where I don't have fixed daily hours but a weekly amount of hours in my contract. Electricity is necessary to do my job (on computers).
We had a power outage due to a ...
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Is it illegal to warn employees about workplace harassers if the company doesn't want you to?
I was sexually harassed at my previous job. I filed a complaint to the company, but they downplayed and dismissed it. I've heard that workplace harassment cases are hard to win, and I didn't think I ...
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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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Working part of the year from Spain for a UK company, what are the implications?
I am an EU national based in the UK working for a British company. I would like to live and work remotely from Spain between 3 to 6 months per year. My current company told me they would not ...
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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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US Expat with Work/Bank/401k in the US, is that legal?
I'm a US citizen living in Europe for the last couple of years. I work remotely for a US company, receive salary in a US bank, 401k, pay full federal/state taxes - all as if I'm in the US.
My employer ...
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statute of limitations on injuries in the workplace in israel?
A year ago I got hit by a metal bar on my leg. I didn't tell anyone because I have a speech problem and heavy shyness. It hurt me the first day and later the doctor told me it was not broken and gave ...
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How many days of vacations am I entitled to?
I started on August 19 2020 and vacations are added on May, so between August 19 2020 and May 1 2021, I had around 9 days of vacation, but then HR tells me between May 1 2021 and May 2022, I can only ...
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Is there any legal action I can take after my company discouraged me from calling 911 after a workplace injury? [closed]
I fell at work causing me to have 6 compound femur fractures. I begged my boss to call 911 because my leg was broken . They laughed at me saying there's no way it was broken and that I was ...
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Contract to hire in Texas
There are a lot of employers who normally hire people only after a period of time as a contractor.
They seem to hire people as contractors and they go through a contracting agency that is separate ...
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Allowable Discrimination For Jobs
Just lately I realized that anti-discrimination/equal opportunity legislation only applies to proscribed categories of discrimination grounds, e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, etc.
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