Losing A Job Sometimes losing a job can turn out being more of an opportunity than a crisis. This article focuses on the growth of online vocational education and how a change in employment status can lead you to a more financially satisfying and meaningful career. With respect to educational pathways, we are now seeing major changes take place in both how Read more…
My Employer Filed For Bankruptcy – How Do I Get My COBRA Benefits?
Q. I am 58 years old and worked for the same textile factory for nearly twenty years. My health care benefits were paid through my employer who has since filed for Bankruptcy. I have called the company but have not been able to reach anyone concerning my COBRA rights. What are my options? I have Read more…
Defamation Of Character By Former Employer
Employer Defamation Of Employee If your former employer tells lies about you that damage your career, you might be able to sue for money damages. Each state has its own defamation of character laws. Generally, though, if your employer is spreading lies about you that damage your career and future job prospects, you might have Read more…
Employment Law – Know Your Legal Rights – Pay Violations – Wrongful Termination
EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW – WRONGFUL TERMINATION – DESCRIMINATION – OVERTIME VIOLATIONS – HOSTILE WORK ENVIORNMENTS, EMPLOYEE RIGHTS ATTORNEYS… Getting employed and staying employed in a volatile and uncertain job market can foster all sorts of legal issues. These include wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, underpayment of overtime, denying unemployment benefits, and maternity leave, can turn what you Read more…
Severance Packages – Non-Compete Clause
Sometimes, when you are about to lose your job, your employer may offer you a “severance” package or “separation” package – an amount of money that is meant to temporarily offset your job loss. None-Compete Clause A non-compete clause prevents you from competing with your previous employer in the same type of business. These clauses Read more…
Non-Compete Agreements
Most employers forbid employees from competing with the company while they are on the job. But some employers go further, requiring employees to agree not to start their own businesses or go to work for a competitor after they leave their jobs with the company. These employers require their employees to sign agreements that say Read more…
Employee Benefits
Types Of Employee Benefits Most employee “benefits” include health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance – with the insurance premiums paid partly or entirely by the employer – as well as pension and retirement benefits. Employers generally don’t have to offer any benefits to their employees. Some jobs come with benefits and some do not. Read more…
Employment Contracts
Everyone who takes a job has an employment contract – even if that contract is not in writing. For example, if you take a job for $8.00 an hour, you have just agreed to an $8.00 an hour contract with your employer. Under that contract, your employer now has to pay you $8.00 an hour Read more…
Discrimination and Harassment In The Workplace
“Discrimination” at the workplace occurs when your employer treats you differently. Discriminatory acts include making you work under unequal working conditions (such as lower pay or benefits), failing to promote you, or firing you. But not all “discrimination” is illegal discrimination. If your boss fires you because he simply doesn’t like you, that is not Read more…
Lost Your Job? Transition Into Home Employment
Lost Your Job? Transition Into Home Employment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics 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. Even with a declining economy, the Read more…