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• Federal Lunch Law

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  The Human Resources profession recommends that every employer give his or her employees a half-hour unpaid meal break and two 10- to 15-minute paid breaks during the workday. However, no federal law mandates that employers must offer meal breaks for general industry workers. Among the states, California, ...
  2 days ago

• Minnesota Holiday Pay Law

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Whether it is Christmas, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, or a “federal holiday,” any general industry may be open and may schedule workers to come in on those holidays. Employers are not required to give workers paid holidays off. This applies not only in Minnesota but nationwide. There is no Minnesota law, no ...
  5 days ago

• Missouri Comp Time

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Tim is an employee in an Missouri commercial bakery. His employer pays him every two weeks. During the first week of the payroll period, Tim worked for 50 hours. To avoid paying overtime, his employer wanted to have him work just 25 hours the following week and take 15 hours of “comp time” off. That way, his hours ...
  1 week ago

• Wisconsin Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Children as young as six years old are working in the farm fields of Wisconsin and elsewhere in the U.S. A team of graduate students recently conducted an undercover investigation that revealed regular violations of the child labor laws. Children, some of them age six, were regularly working beside their parents ...
  1 week ago

• Mississippi Lunch Law

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Mississippi employers may legally require their employees to work 8, 10, or 16 hours a day without a lunch break. There are 19 states in the U.S. that mandate meal breaks for most employees. Mississippi, however, is not one of them. There is no federal protection either. No federal law requires employers to ...
  1 week ago

• Religious Discrimination in Arizona

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  As long as it can be done without “undue hardship,” employers in Arizona and elsewhere in the U.S. must allow for the free expression of an employee’s religion. This means, among other things, that employers are required by federal law to allow Muslim employees to take prayer breaks. According to the ...
  1 week ago

• Intermittent FMLA in Michigan

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Employers in Michigan and throughout the rest of the U.S. are asking why the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 allows workers to take what is called “intermittent, unscheduled” leave. One of the most hotly-debated features of the FMLA is that there is nothing in the legislation to prevent a worker from ...
  1 week ago

• Unions Railroading Florida’s Rail Project

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 461
  Florida is right now at the vanguard of a new railroad project that could bring good news to those that care about solving bloated state budgets, common sense employment laws, and cutting the corruption that comes with unions by pushing for a non-union workforce with its proposed intrastate rail system. And the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muslim Prayer in Nebraska

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Muslim employees in Nebraska and all other states in the U.S. must be allowed to take prayer breaks during the workday. It is federal law. According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, anything else would be discrimination in the workplace and therefore illegal. The law says that employers must make ...
  2 weeks ago

• Arizona Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  The phrases “reasonable accommodations” and “sincerely held religious beliefs” are two that Arizona employees would be well-advised to know and understand. That is because the federal government requires that employers must make “reasonable accommodations” to workers’ “sincerely held religious ...
  2 weeks ago

• Alaska Disciplinary Notices

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  There are many company disciplinary policies that may not have grown out of state or federal labor laws. A good number of them, however, are considered “best practices” and have been developed by the top Human Resources professionals. Policies like these have become the standard among large firms. One such ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Intermittent FMLA

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  New regulations under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for 2009 require workers to follow their companies’ standard reporting procedures when they take unscheduled, intermittent time off under the act. The change in the regulations follow the U.S. Labor Department’s release of a 182-page review ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Federal law demands it: many employers throughout the U.S. must allow their employees of the Islamic faith to take prayer breaks. Muslims, in turn, are required by their religion to pray, facing east, five specific times during the day. Many employers have answered this spiritual need and fulfilled federal law ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kentucky Disciplinary Notices

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Many Kentucky employees have questions about disciplinary notices. As a result, HR pros have developed a formal and progressive discipline procedure that involves a combination of verbal and written warnings. Thanks to the procedure, adopted by most large companies and franchises, firms can assure fair and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Indiana Intermittent FMLA

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  One of the biggest concerns among employees in Indiana and elsewhere in the U.S. is the federally-sanctioned right of employees to take unscheduled, intermittent leave under FMLA. The Family and Medical Leave Act or FMLA allows this kind of leave, and the U.S. Department of Labor has addressed the issue. A report ...
  3 weeks ago

• Maine Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  Before 9/11, a Muslim woman worked on her Alamo car rental job while wearing her head scarf without encountering problems from her supervisor. The supervisor, in fact, had given permission to do so. The woman’s head scarf bore the Alamo logo. After 9/11, she was fired for wearing the scarf. She challenged the ...
  4 weeks ago

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