Employment law Employment law At-will employment is an employment relationship in which either party can terminate the relationship at-will with no liability if there was no express contract for a definite term governing the employment relationship. Several exceptions exist to the at-will doctrine. ...more on Wikipedia about "At-will employment"
In football (soccer), the Bosman ruling is one that allows professional football players in the European Union to move freely to another club at the end of their term of contract with their present team. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bosman ruling"
In employment law, honorable dismissal is where an employee resigns due to their employer's behaviour. The employee must prove that the behaviour was unfair — that the employer's actions amounted to a fundamental breach of contract or the law. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constructive dismissal"
The U.S. Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (EPPA) generally prevents employers from using lie detector tests, either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions. Employers generally may not require or request any employee or job applicant to take a lie detector test, or discharge, discipline, or discriminate against an employee or job applicant for refusing to take a test or for exercising other rights under the Act. In addition, employers are required to display a poster in the workplace explaining the EPPA for their employees. ...more on Wikipedia about "Employee Polygraph Protection Act"
An employment contract is an agreement entered into between an employer and an employee at the commencement of the period of employment and stating the exact nature of their business relationship, specifically what compensation the employee will receive in exchange for specific work performed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Employment contract"
Gardening Leave (British English) is a phrase used to describe the practice whereby an employee who is due to be leaving their job is sent home for the remainder of their period of employment whilst remaining on the payroll. This is usually done in an attempt to protect sensitive information, particularly when the employee is transferring to a rival company. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gardening leave"
Griggs v. Duke Power Co. was a court case argued before the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 1970. It concerned employment discrimination and was decided on March 8, 1971. ...more on Wikipedia about "Griggs v. Duke Power Co."
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In employment law, hostile environment sexual harassment refers to a situation where employees in a workplace are subject to a pattern of exposure to unwanted sexual behavior from persons other than an employee's direct supervisor where supervisors or managers take no steps to discourage or discontinue such behavior. It is distinguished from "quid pro quo" sexual harassment, where a direct supervisor seeks sexual favors in return for something within the supervisor's powers, such as threatening to fire someone, or offering them a raise. Quid pro quo has been recognized as actionable for decades, but hostile environment has only been recognized as an actionable behavior since the late 1980s as courts have made findings that the loss of employment or constructive dismissal has been caused by such behavior. Some situations that have been ruled to constitute such a hostile environment are: ...more on Wikipedia about "Hostile environment sexual harassment"
The Master and Servants Act was the culmination of a series of laws designed to regulate relations between employers and employees during the 18th and 19th centuries, although heavily biased on the employers' terms. It was instituted in 1823 in Great Britain and described its purpose as "for the better regulations of servants, labourers and work people". This law greatly influenced labor relations and Employment law in the USA, Canada (1847), Australia (1845), New Zealand (1856) and South Africa (1856). In reality the law was designed to discipline employees and repress the 'combination' of workers in labour unions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Master and Servant Act"
A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also called a confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), confidentiality agreement or secrecy agreement, is a legal contract between at least two parties which outlines confidential materials the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict from generalized use. In other words, it is a contract through which the parties agree not to disclose information covered by the agreement. A NDA creates a confidential relationship between the parties. ...more on Wikipedia about "Non-disclosure agreement"
An occupational disease is any recognized chronic ailment that is known to occur in a given body of workers in a given industry at a rate far higher than occurs in the general population, and includes diseases that are only known among workers in a given industry and no-where else (such as Black Lung Disease among coal miners). It excludes occupational hazards that are of a traumatic nature that are common in an industry (such as falls by roofers). Under the law of workers' compensation, there is a presumption that an occupational disease was caused by the worker being in the environment and the burden is on the employer or insurer to show that the disease came about from another cause. The fact that not all long term workers in the industry develop the disease is not considered an effective argument that the disease came from another cause. ...more on Wikipedia about "Occupational disease"
In UK employment law, redundancy is the dismissal of an employee when his or her job becomes unnecessary. UK redundancy law allows three reasons for redundancy: ...more on Wikipedia about "Redundancy (law)"
The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1975, in the case of NLRB v. J. Weingarten, that employees have a right to union representation at investigatory interviews. These rights have become known as the Weingarten Rights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Weingarten Rights"
A work permit is a generic term for a legal authorization which allows a person to take employment. ...more on Wikipedia about "Work permit"
Wrongful dismissal (also wrongful termination or wrongful discharge)is an idiom and legal phrase, describing a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer in circumstances where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision in employment law. It follows that the scope for Wrongful Dismissal varies according to the terms of the employment contract, and varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Note that the absence of a formal contract of employment does not preclude Wrongful Dismissal in jurisdictions in which a de facto contract is taken to exist by virtue of the employment relationship. Terms of such a contract may include obligations and rights outlined in an employee handbook. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wrongful dismissal"
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