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• Designated Parking Space for Handicapped Employee

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 435
  If the court reporter is genuinely an employee, then yes, the employer is required to make reasonable accommodations for her under ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. A reserved parking space might very well be a reasonable accommodation. The employers argument that this is not fair to other employees with ...
  1 day ago

• Virginia Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  Child labor is not just happening in the sweatshops of Asia. It is occurring right in the U.S., in the farm fields of Virginia and other states across the country. Child labor is illegal in the U.S. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), no child under 12 may work at any kind of job, including ...
  5 days ago

• Is it legal for a TPA to ask the employer for a copy of the employees SS card?

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 435
  We assume by TPA you mean Third Party Administrator. The TPA can legally ask for anything, including a million dollars and an all-expenses paid vacation in Cancun. Whether or not you should comply, is a different issue.In several states including Texas, it would be illegal for you to share the employees social ...
  1 week ago

• Wisconsin Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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

• Exempt Employee Time and a half pay

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 435
  Yes, this is a violation of the FLSA (the federal Fair Labor Standards Act) and neither plan that you suggest is legal if these workers are employees. (If they are genuinely independent contractors rather than employees, then either arrangement is legal.)Under the FLSA, an employee is either exempt or non-exempt, ...
  1 week ago

• Religious Discrimination in Arizona

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Drinking Water and Restroom Necessity

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 435
  The relevant statute here is the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act. ADA requires an employer to make reasonable accommodations for an employee with a documented permanent disability, who can perform the primary duties of his or her job with that accommodation. It is up to the employee to request a reasonable ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muslim Prayer in Nebraska

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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: 422
  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

• Federal Religious Discrimination

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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: 422
  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

• What Do Health-Care Reform, the 40-Hour Work Week, Unemployment Insurance, the Minimum Wage, etc., Have in Common?

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 655
  Well, they were all brought to you be political progressives, they were all opposed by political conservatives, and they all are now viewed as fundamental presuppositions of a healthy society by virtually everyone.  Okay, all but health-care reform, but trust…
  4 weeks ago

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