Questions tagged [employment]
For questions that are about, or that arise as a result of, workplaces or the performance of work-related duties.
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Can my employer ask me to return sick pay if I claim loss of earnings?
I have been employed by the same employer for a number of years, and they have recently provided a revised 'terms of employment' document which includes the following new paragraph
It is a ...
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Does China have “parasitism” law prohibiting people from not working?
I did a lot of research answering this Politics.SE question: "Is China really Communist?".
I was able to answer most items I decided to research (some of the answers were less intuitive than ...
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How to solve the E-2 treaty investor visa chicken-egg dilema?
The US offers the E-2 visa to investors from treaty countries.
For the application, a substantial investment at risk and proof of customer agreements, wage reports and so one are required.
Would that ...
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Can employer force me to handover my updated passport? [closed]
I work for a EU organization internationally,
They have had my previous passport on file for more than a year, but it has expired last year: They are now requesting I send them my new passport "...
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Can lack of dual citizenship be a job qualification in Canada?
Some organizations in Canada have an official preference for hiring Canadian citizens, and say so in job announcements. If one is a Canadian citizen but also a U.S. citizen, does that mean one would ...
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Can a manager reduce my work hours because there has been (unverified) issues with a coworker?
I am having a conflict with a coworker. Without going into the nature of the conflict, the manager wants to schedule us on separate days. However this would mean a reduction in the hours I work in a ...
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Can an employee in the UK (England) be imposed a contractual duty to subject themselves to marijuana tests?
Bob, a citizen of the UK, is a white collar employee of a UK construction company. They never engage in hazardous work or work that is, within the scope of its risk, can endanger others.
Can the ...
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Can Idaho employers ask about dismissed criminal convictions?
In California, if a person is convicted of a crime, then later has the
conviction dismissed under Penal Code section 1203.4, then Labor Code
section 432.7 makes it illegal for employers to ask about ...
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Can a blue card visa holder in Germany work for 1 company and another free internship on the side?
We have a situation where we have somebody in Germany who is working for someone already, a normal job. This person is here in Germany on a Bluecard visa.
Is it possible for this blue card holder to ...
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Are directors employees of the company?
Directors tell the company what to do but most directors also get paid for their services. Does that make directors employees of the company?
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Cost of reallocation on changing employer
An employee joined a job 2 years ago. Initially, the employer paid him for re-allocation fees as stated in the contract. The contract also states that
"Under our relocation policy, leavers with ...
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Does a remote internship need a visa?
I run a startup in the UK.
I know someone from Brazil who wants to help out on our startup by offering some web developer time for free, remotely.
Trying to keep things all above board and legal, I ...
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Confused about Intellectual Property Rights
I have applied for a job as a software developer in the UK and have been sent back a contract which has the following wordage:
You agree that all rights to all material created in the course of
your ...
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As a paid-hourly employee, am I subject to wages over the maximum hours set forth by a contract?
I work in MA.
I am currently paid hourly. My current contract states
Number of work hours per week: 40 hrs
however, the employer and I have an understanding that I may work more hours. The employer ...
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Could signing an intellectual property agreement for an algorithm coding job prevent me from working in a similar industry later?
I am a computer coder / algorithm developer and am just getting started in industry where I know I'll have to deal with IP agreements. In particular, the question I'm asking here came about because I ...
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US Federal agency says a vaccine can be required. What does this mean?
The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a US Federal agency, is reported as saying that employers can require people to take vaccines. What does required mean? Can employers fire people ...
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Is this “Works for Hire” language enforceable?
I am reviewing a job offer that includes this Works for Hire clause:
Works for Hire
During the term of your employment, you may create an
idea, process, trademark, invention, technology, program,
...
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Disclosure obligations to employers: UK full-time salaried employee intending to take up additional paid employment 20% with a non-competing business
I recently started working full-time (i.e. approx 37.5 to 40 hours/week) in the UK as a permanent employee of a UK-based private organisation, with monthly salary paid through BACS to my UK bank ...
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Does it violate HIPAA to ask if employees are vaccinated? [duplicate]
My new company requires their employees to wear a mask if they are not vaccinated from COVID-19. When I came in for my first day, earlier this week, I saw some people not wearing a mask, and I asked ...
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Can an employer monitor employees off-premises?
Can an employer monitor employees off-premises or during activities not in course of their employment? Can they fix what people can do in their day to day life and activities in any way? For example, ...
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Is it Illegal for me to refuse to hire a white child actor because the already selected parent is black and the child isn't adopted?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reads:
"It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer—(1) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise ...
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Can a bail enforcement agent be assigned as a bodyguard?
So I looked it up and google did a great job... of not answering my question. I am helping develop this game. It is going to be a very realistic game, however what I want to know is, can a bail ...
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Would she be entitled to welfare benefits?
Say an Irish national resides in another country (Denmark) and looks for work and cannot find work in her profession. But instead, she finds a part-time job that is poorly paid and she is only working ...
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Is pretending to be the owner of a bank account illegal?
I'm looking into a job, and I'm trying to figure out if there is a legal issue with it.
The role is called "asset investigator." It entails confirming bank info on behalf of credit card ...
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Reasonableness of Drug Testing
As far as I know, the purpose of drug testing is to make sure that people aren’t under the influence while working. But something doesn’t make sense about this. Drug tests determine whether someone ...
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What are the legal ramifications of using Post Nominal Letters from a degree mill?
Background
This question was sparked by a question about firing an employee with a B.A. from a degree mill
To my knowledge, using protected post nominal letters that are related to a professional ...
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Texas, USA - Is it illegal to have an applicant do work for your company as a “Test?”
I've got a college grad I am mentoring and he just drove for 2 days, to apply for a job. The person he met with wanted him to take a programming test, and instructed him to create a website to show ...
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Would it be legal in New York to only hire from Harvard Law School?
The premise of the television programme Suits relies on a New York law firm so élitist that it only hires Harvard Law School graduates, and rejects all other applications.
In real life, would this be ...
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Is it legal for employers to hire only native speakers?
I recently learned that there are some companies (for instance, certain editing, writing, or translation services) that explicitly refuse to hire non-native English speakers for certain positions a ...
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What are the existing regulations and laws about on-call shifts in retail industry in California?
My wife has recently started working as a floater pharmacist at one red-colored pharmacy chain in California. Just a side note, while my wife has worked there, she personally vaccinated more than 1000 ...
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Allowable Discrimination For Jobs
Just lately I realized that anti-discrimination/equal opportunity legislation only applies to proscribed categories of discrimination grounds, e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, age, etc.
Up ...
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Remedy for employee regarding Provident Fund
What are the possible charges an employee can take against an employer regarding Provident Fund - An employee works in a company for a short duration i.e., less than a year. Employee who was able to ...
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Consequences of violation of employment contract in India
What legal action can an employer take against the employee who used the company laptop to work on a freelancing project? Duration maybe max of 10 days.
Possibility of allegation from employer is for ...
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Does a store have to hire someone with conflicting views on the pandemic?
Suppose a store is considering an employee for hire when a social media review finds views that conflict with both prevailing governmental advice as well as the views of management. If the discovery ...
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Why is stealing from an employer a criminal act when stealing from an employee is a civil act?
Here is the full question with all the context and details:
In the majority of cases in the U.S. about theft at a workplace, why is the matter usually tried in a criminal court when the employer is ...
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Is employer responsible to disclose workplace before hiring?
I was originally hired to do some in office computer work. During my interviews, I was on the premises 3 times. Employer showed me this “workplace”, my desk, etc. I worked there for about a month, ...
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Could it make sense to add a non-used reason for firing someone in court?
Lets imagine there is a person called George that works for the dutch government to secure their ICT systems. The government body he worked for was not a secret agency or something like that. This ...
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UK Copyright and IPR in the course of employment: Employee vs Worker
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/11:
2)Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or a
film, is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his
employer is the ...
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Is “canceling” people tortious interference?
Is "canceling" people tortious interference?
As a concrete example, Richard Stallman (RMS) is/was employed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), MIT and other organizations. He voiced ...
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Is employment discrimination against obese people legal?
Some scientists have proposed links between obesity and personality traits, e.g.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914627/
More self-controlled boys and girls are less likely to become ...
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Is the requirement to have any type of degree or certain amount of years worked discriminatory?
I am mostly curious about qualified candidates that cannot prove their skill, because they cannot get it to the interview.
I'm a developer, but the question is not focused on IT. I've had two cases to ...
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Are anti-employee-poaching clauses in contracts enforceable?
Many companies have so-called "anti-poaching" clauses in job contracts to prevent employees that leave from referring their old colleagues.
I heard some large tech companies have got in ...
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Is the requirement to have positive attitude discriminatory?
Many companies list "positive attitude" as a requirement for the candidates, including job positions that have nothing to do with customer service or management (for which jobs it could be ...
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Can a civil action started under Ontario's Simplified Procedure be moved to Small Claims Court?
Under Ontario law, is it possible for a plaintiff bringing a wrongful dismissal civil action to change venues some time after pleadings have been filed, but before the action has been set down for ...
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Can employer deduct minutes worth of pay for clocking out few minutes early?
I started working in a retail store. We are scheduled to work for 30 minutes after the store closes to finish the closing procedures (such as turning off lights, locking doors etc). For example if the ...
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Must an employer provide a break room/lunch room to its employees?
I started working in a retail store. It has no lunch room, break room, or a place where employees can sit comfortably to relax. In practice there's a storage area where people use bins to eat their ...
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Can an employee be disciplined for breaking a rule that is clearly not usually enforced?
I started a new job working in a retail store. The employee handbook has several official rules and policy which are clearly not enforced. For example
no dogs in the store
no cellphones at work
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Can an employer mandate an EUA-approved vaccine?
Liberal political commentator Matt Yglesias just tweeted this:
I’m not an expert in Vaccine Law.
But the military requires a lot of vaccinations but says it can’t require the Covid vaccines because ...
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How can my employer require me to work “bank” shifts [closed]
The NHS in the UK requires all of its medical staff to commit any hours available you have to do additional work to the NHS as a priority before taking on another role.
Essentially this means that if ...
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Can Hollywood discriminate on the race of their actors?
Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and later addenda, employers in the US "cannot discriminate" on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), ...
