Employment
This section provides you with articles discussing what to look for when finding a job. From interview tips to information on background checks and employment laws, this section provides it all.
Glossary of Employment Law Terms
Glossary of Employment & Labor Law Terms
Glossary of Employee Benefits & Salary Terms
Glossary of Employee Rights Terms
Glossary of Employee Discrimination Terms
Is an employer under a legal obligation to hire or promote me if I am the most qualified person for the position?
Unemployment insurance works like other forms of insurance - except that the employer normally pays the insurance premiums to the state agency that ends up making the payments to the employee when he or she loses a job. The state however must be incompliance with the federal guidelines and directives concerning how the unemployment program is administered.
The Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted to protect employees from employers who try to pay employee wages that are either legally too low or too late.
Glossary of Employee Benefits & Salary Terms
Glossary of Employee Discrimination Terms
Glossary of Employee Groups & Organizations Terms
Glossary of Employee Rights Terms
Glossary of Employment & Labor Law Terms
Glossary of Employment Law Terms
The Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on a person’s religion, race, sex, color, and national origin. Sexual harassment is one form of discriminatory practice and it is unlawful at both the federal and state levels and applies to both the public and private sector.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008-09 Edition) reports that nearly a third of all eligible workers today qualify as self-employed professionals or contractors. Advances in home office technology have allowed contract workers, consultants and freelancers to build their own career from their own home.
To bring an action for sexual harassment, you must usually establish that you found the conduct against you to be hostile, abusive or offensive. You do not necessarily have to be the victim of the harassment in order to file a complaint about workplace sexual harassment.
There are many ways to define sexual harassment. Generally it includes any type of unwelcome sexual advance, requests for sexual favors, and/or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
While the countries unemployment rate reaches 9.7 percent in the second quarter of 2009, representing over 5.6 million out-of-work Americans, the unemployment rate still represents less than half of what the unemployment rate was back in the days of the great depression - a small consolation for those people who suddenly find themselves out of work and out of money.
Employment applications and interviews assist employers in choosing applicants who they think best fit their company’s needs and business objectives. It is entirely legal for an employer to eliminate anyone for almost any reason from consideration, so long as that reason is neither illegal nor violates a recognized and compelling governmental public policy.