Employment Law
Pay, leave, safety, accommodation, and the rules that govern the workplace.
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Employment Law
Salary History Bans and Compensation Questions During Hiring
No federal law stops an employer from asking what you earned before. A patchwork of state and city rules does, and they differ sharply on voluntary disclosure and prior-pay reliance.
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Employment Law
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Accommodation Requests and Employer Duties
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act reaches limitations too minor to count as disabilities, and it allows an essential job function to be paused. Here is how a request actually works.
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Employment Law
OSHA Injury Reporting and Recordkeeping: What Employers Must Document
Calling OSHA about a serious injury and keeping the 300 log are separate obligations with separate rules. Confusing them is the most common recordkeeping failure.
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Employment Law
COBRA Continuation Coverage After Employment Ends
COBRA keeps the same health plan running after a job ends, at the full cost plus an administrative charge. The deadlines are short and missing one usually ends the option.
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Employment Law
Protected Concerted Activity: Speech and Group Action Without a Union
Federal labor law protects employees who act together over pay, hours or safety even where no union exists. The protection is real, narrower than it sounds, and easy to forfeit.
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Employment Law
Paid Family and Medical Leave: State Programs Alongside Federal Leave
A state paid leave benefit and federal job protection are separate rights with separate eligibility rules. Qualifying for one says nothing about qualifying for the other.
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Employment Law
Workers' Compensation Claims: Notice, Treatment, Disputes, and Return to Work
Workers' compensation trades the right to sue an employer for benefits paid without proving fault. The system is built out of deadlines, and most claims are lost on those.
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Employment Law
Tip Pooling, Service Charges, and the Rules That Govern Them
A mandatory service charge is not a tip, and the difference changes who may keep the money, how overtime is calculated, and what has to be disclosed.
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Employment Law
Dress Codes and Grooming Policies: Where Employer Discretion Ends
An employer can require a uniform, ban visible tattoos and set a hairstyle rule. It cannot apply those standards in ways that collide with protected characteristics.
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Employment Law
Employee Handbooks: What They Create and What They Should Avoid
Handbooks are written as guidance and read as commitments. In many states the wrong sentence converts a policy into a contractual expectation the employer has to honour.
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Employment Law
Internships and Trainee Programs: When the Worker Must Be Paid
An unpaid internship is lawful only when the intern is the main one gaining from it. The test is flexible, fact-heavy, and applied more strictly by several states.
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Employment Law
Wage Garnishment at Work: Employer Duties, Limits, and Priority
A garnishment order makes the employer a collection agent with real liability. The federal cap is only a floor, and support orders, student loans and tax levies each follow different rules.
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