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Sidestep The Risk Of Independent Contractors Who Aren't - dated: February 10, 2003 - author: Marc J. Lane - Whatever the parties believe or contract, the IRS has the final word about whether or not a worker is really an employee. Considering he's the richest man in the country, not all has been going Bill Gates' way. The Justice Department is after him on Antitrust grounds; he recently took a pie in the face; and his senior managers at Microsoft Corp. learned that workers can be company employees even after they sign agreements click here for full text.

Protect Your Job & Wages - dated: August 7, 2004 - author: Susan Chana Lask, Esq. - When people call me about employment issues they don't realize one important law- in almost every state you are terminable at will. That means that your employer can fire you anytime and for no reason at all. click here for full text.

Employers Beware: Love Is In The Air And Your Company May End Up Paying - dated: February 19, 2003 - author: Marc J. Lane - some employers are starting to move in a different direction. They're requiring a supervisor and a subordinate who date to disclose their relationship and sign a "love contract," professing only that their relationship is voluntary and consensual. Cupid's bow is firmly in hand today, and his arrows d'amour are carefully aimed at those whose lives he'll change forever. click here for full text.

Public Accommodations And The Americans With Disabilities Act - The Costly Consequences Of Good Intentions - entered: September 4, 2005 - author: From The Law Offices Of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP By Chris Baker - More than fourteen years ago, Congress passed, and the first President Bush signed, the Americans with Disabilities Act. Its purpose was noble. The Act was intended to prohibit discrimination against disabled persons and integrate them more fully into society. However, because disabled persons are, by definition, different from non-disabled persons with respect to their abilities, redressing disability discrimination is a fundamentally different task than redressing other kinds discrimination. click here for full text.

Qualified Retirement Planning Services As a Fringe Benefit - dated: February 3, 2003 - author: Thomas Connolly - The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-16) added a new category of fringe benefit that is excludable from employees' gross wages. The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (P.L. 107-16) added a new category of fringe benefit that is excludable from employees' gross wages - - employer-provided qualified retirement planning services. This exclusion applies to qualified retirement planning services offered for years beginning after December 31, 2001. click here for full text.

Non-compete agreement FAQs - entered: September 4, 2005 - author: Neil E. Klingshirn - Today more employees than ever find a promising career path blocked by an agreement that meant little to them when they signed it. In Ohio and many other states, courts will enforce agreements by employees not to compete against their former employer. A covenant not to compete is a promise by an employee not to compete with his or her employer for a specified time in a particular place. A covenant not to compete, which is also known as a non-competition agreement, may be a clause in an employment agreement or a separate contract standing by itself. click here for full text.

California Supreme Court Rules “Sexual Favoritism” May Constitute Unlawful Harassment - entered: September 4, 2005 - author: From The Law Offices Of Thelen Reid & Priest LLP - In a ground-breaking decision that expands employee protections under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the California Supreme Court in Miller v. Department of Corrections, No. S114097 (Cal 2005), held that a supervisor’s widespread “sexual favoritism” shown to a subordinate employee with whom the supervisor is having a consensual affair may create a hostile work environment allowing other employees who have been adversely affected by the favoritism to sue for sexual harassment under the FEHA. click here for full text.

Severance agreement FAQs - entered: September 4, 2005 - author: Neil E. Klingshirn - If an employer creates a severance plan, the employees covered by the terms of the plan are entitled to the benefits that the plan provides upon the occurrence of the event that triggers benefits. However, an employer may create, modify or abolish a severance plan as it sees fit. Most employers choose to have no severance plan at all. click here for full text.

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