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Mind the Gap: Practical Solutions to Minimize Pay Equity Claims
Christine Lyman, Lonnie Giamela, and LaLonnie Gray
8 pages

As the pay equity legal landscape evolves, employers must confront gender-based discrimination, plummeting morale, and publicity issues. Implement these solutions to minimize your risk of claims.

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Interest Area: Employment and Labor
Region: United States, Iceland, Germany, France, North America, Europe
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This interactive program will discuss how to prepare for a union campaign, including a discussion of manager training, solicitation rules and what a corporate campaign is.

This issue-spotting seminar will give you a high-level overview of key issues and trends relating to employee benefits plans. The goal is to enable you to spot potential problems, understand the framework and clarify the murky benefits plan language. Learn when to call in an expert.

What are the legal issues presented by the use of volunteers? Can volunteers collect workers compensation, sue for discrimination, or bind the company? Our panel of experts will share tips on these and other volunteer issues including writing policies, conducting liability audits, implementing proper insurance, and gaining a clear understanding of the Volunteer Protection Act.

Annual Meeting 2006: Corporations face a wide variety of labor and employment laws. These vary significantly from state-to-state, often are contradictory, and sometimes are counter-intuitive. The sheer volume of statutes, regulations, and court decisions makes it very difficult for employers to understand the range of legal obligations that exist. The result is that your company may unwittingly be close to violating‚ or may already have violated‚ a law you did not even know about.

Read an informative overview for corporate counsel charged with managing, overseeing, or handling the company's worker’s compensation risk. Discussion topics will include utilization of in-house counsel, billing arrangements for outside counsel, the legal ramifications of medical issues peculiar to workers’ compensation cases, different types of workers’ compensation policies (including self insured/high retention options), the interplay of various laws impacting injured workers and significant jurisdictional issues.

This paper explores the legal issues raised by the employee who is out on leave for a workers' compensation injury and either requests an indefinite leave or stays out on leave indefinitely. In many such cases, the employer is plunged into doubt and confusion as to how to handle such a situation, fearing a claim of retaliatory discharge under ADA, FMLA and state workers? compensation laws. The purpose of this article is to set out a basic structure for approaching this quandary.

Workers Compensation and Employers Liability Insurance Policy

An insurance policy for workers compensation insurance, employers liability insurance, other states insurance, and the employer's duties if injury occurs/

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Interest Area: Insurance, Employment and Labor
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
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Concluding Fixed-Term Employment Contracts Easier for Start-ups in Germany
Dr. Eric Uftring, Esq., WINHELLER Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisors

In order to support the creation of start-ups in Germany, legislators have been working to develop special fixed-term contracts for employee hiring.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts, Career Development, Employment and Labor, Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Source: Resource Library
Region: Germany
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On-call Employees: What are their Rights and Obligations?
Jan Dop, LL.M, Russell Advocaten B.V.

Many companies work with on-call employees. This arrangement can benefit both employer and employee due to its flexible model. In the Netherlands, there are a variety of contracts that define the type of on-call employee working at a company. Learn more about their work structure and obligations.

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Interest Area: Employment and Labor, Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: European Union, Netherlands
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