Questions tagged [workplace]
For questions regarding laws that apply to the workplace. Related tags: [employment], [employment-law]
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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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Workers Comp. Insurance with Regard to Single-Member LLCs in Virginia
Consider that I own a single-member LLC in Virginia.
Must I carry Workers Comp. insurance (in the U.S.) because I pay my wife from time to time?
I ask, because I am under the impression that if a ...
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Paying salary back after leaving the company
A few days ago I received a pretty interesting letter from my ex employer. During my time there I made minus hours, caused by the project situation (I am a software developer). The letter says I ...
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If you report your employer for wage theft, do you have to provide evidence you hold no shares and therefore FLSA applies?
If you report your employer for wage theft, do you have to provide evidence you hold no shares and therefore FLSA applies?
How do you convince your manager to confirm you have no shares without making ...
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Is it legal in United States to record your computer screen while you do employment/computer work if you're the only person recorded and you're alone?
Is it legal in United States to record your computer screen while you do work on a computer if you're the only person recorded and you're alone?
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Can an employer legally require a female employee to wear a bra?
There seems to be some discussion of this elsewhere on the web, but it's scant on citations to actual regulations or cases.
To narrow the scope, let's say that the female employee dresses so that the ...
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Do you need consent when taking a screenshot during a video conference?
In a state that has "all party consent" laws when it comes to recording conversations, does taking a screenshot during a video conference (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, etc.) require consent from ...
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How and when is something "published" to be considered libel?
When looking up "libel" in a dictionary, it says
a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.
I am pretty sure there are laws for almost any ...
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Is it illegal to voluntarily work longer than the law allows?
Let Bob be a software developer that can work from home. Bob's contract says he has to work 40h/week. The employer offers a flexible distribution of those hours and doesn't care when Bob works, as ...
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Noncompete agreement - Esthetician
A friend of mine works at a skin care and retail store as an esthetician (dealing with skin care and other spa related treatments). Her boss has had her sign a non-compete agreement that would bar her ...
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Can my parents legally prevent me from working at 15 in Utah?
Can my parents legally prevent me from going to work at 15 in Utah when I already have a job?
My parents refuse to let me go to work even with good behavior and all A's in school.
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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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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 an employer permitted to use images of employees for marketing without their consent?
Paul works in a restaurant, sometimes as a chef and sometimes as a bartender. David is the manager of that restaurant.
David has been taking pictures inside the restaurant including some showing Paul ...
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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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