Questions tagged [workplace]
For questions regarding laws that apply to the workplace. Related tags: [employment], [employment-law]
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How can you say a developer is bad without being subject to a defamation lawsuit?
How can you say a developer is bad without being subject to a defamation lawsuit? If I add "this is my opinion, you can come to your own conclusions", does this still leave me vulnerable to ...
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Can a company use private Slack conversations for a lawsuit against you?
Can a company use private Slack conversations for a lawsuit against you? I work at a company where there's a lot of toxicity and a lot of people seems to be unqualified for their jobs, which leads to ...
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Can you get sued for gossiping about an incompetent tech lead if you believe you're saying the truth?
Can one get sued for gossiping about an incompetent tech lead if you believe you're saying the truth? Let's say a person tells one of his or her coworkers that this tech lead isn't qualified for his ...
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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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What happens when a legal message goes to the spam folder?
Here is a hypothetic question.
A person signed a contract with a company, to work for 3 hours a week.
The contract says that the company may reduce the number of hours based on its needs, by sending ...
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Company pays employees corona bonus for the previous year, but I've quit in January
My ex-company decided to pay its employees a bonus for the struggles with Corona in 2021. I've resigned from my job at that company in January 2022. They announced the bonus payment in February 2022, ...
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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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What does the word contribution mean in contracts?
What does the word contribution mean in
the following statement:
The position would be subject to a contract and would come with a contribution of £1000 GBP per annum, understood as a contribution to ...
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Does 'Doing Research' Count as 'Working On' a Personal Project On Company Property?
I have been given approval from the company I work at to be able to own my side projects. I am a Support Technician (Customer Service) who does not code anything during my work day. However, my ...
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Can your workplace ask you personal details about your religion and sub-beliefs from religion in the US?
Not much other than the question. Can a workplace for example ask if you are Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Jehovah's Witness via survey... and then sub-questions based on your answers? I want cases ...
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Terminated without cause. Do I have a claim for unjust termination or toxic work environment? [closed]
I was recently terminated without cause. I had been working in a liquor store for about 6 months. There was something "special" about the work environment. Several businesses in the area ...
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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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I am stuck working alone with new coworker who I believe is dangerous. Must the employer take action?
I work in a shop. Most of the time I work alone or with one other person. We recently got a new manager who hired two new employees. One of them I have conflicts with (back story on workplace....
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Can a company force a worker to work in 40°+ degrees Celsius and not allow any concessions for basic comfort to stay more safe?
Can a company force a worker to work in 40°+ degrees Celsius and not allow any concessions for basic comfort to stay more safe?
This question is a result of this question on Lifehacks SE: How to stop ...
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Let's say a UK employer doesn't have a password policy - can they insist that an employee divulge a password used on a client's systems?
Purely a hypothetical scenario:
UK employer is an agency with various teams that provide services - some of which are digital - to a third party.
The employees create accounts on the third party's ...
