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Can you be fired for having bad credit or filing bankruptcy?

With so many people these days facing an uncertain financial future and struggling with a decline in income and increase in expenses, as well as loss of equity in their homes, we as nation are seeing credit scores dropping dramatically.  Additionally, many homeowners have suffered a loss of income...

Basics of Employment Discrimination

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Basics of Employment Discrimination

Top 10 Frequent Work Law Faults Done By Corporations

The contemporary American workplace is susceptible to numerous federal, state, and local laws that impose strict obligations on businesses (e.g., wage and hour laws and regulations, nondiscrimination legislation, etc.). A lot of companies, especially smaller businesses, usually do not know the...

May Employers Monitor Personal E-Mail? Cases Turn on Disclosure

According to Debra Cassens Weiss of the ABA Journal, some courts are siding with employees when companies monitor their personal e-mail without adequate warning.Companies claim they have the right to all keystrokes on company property, allowing them to delve into employeesâ?? personal e-mail sent...

Referral fees in an employment context are considered wages

In a landmark employment law case recently decided, Attorney Jeffrey Mazer, of the Mazer Law Group, LLC, an attorney who our firm works with very closely on all employment law related matters was victorious in a decision, where A Superior Court judge has ruled that if an employee brings in work to...

HOW AN EMPLOYEE PROVES THEY HAVE BEEN THE VICTIM OF RETALIATION

In order to establish a prima facie case of reprisal, a complainant must show that he or she engaged in activity protected by some state of Federal law. The employee must also demonstrate the employer or supervisor of the employer was aware of the prior protected activity, the employee was...

Federal Law now protects the intelectually disabled

HRhero.com recently posted a very interesting article relative to the EEOC protecting the intelectually disabled.  Below find the article: EEOC issued guidelines in late 2004 on the employment of the mentally challenged. They reaffirmed their position that ADA protections extend to those perceived...

Protecting debtors from failure to hire, promote or termination after filing bankruptcy

The stigma of filing bankruptcy has stopped many debtors who rightfully and propably necessarily need to file bankruptcy. The truth of the matter is that filing bankruptcy is a right granted to all Americans by Congress and as such, is a protected right. As a protected right, it is illegal to...

EMPLOYER’S CAN NOT DISCRIMINATE BASED UPON BANKRUPTCY FILINGS

Laws protecting debtors from employment discrimination, more specifically, failure to hire, promote or termination after filing bankruptcy, have been deemed illegal discrimination pursuant to both Federal and state law. No employer is allowed to terminate an employee or discriminate against said...