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Resolving Employment Dispute and Avoiding Expensive Court Lawsuit

There are several alternative ways to resolve a dispute between employers and workers to avoid formal lawsuit, a process which usually takes long years, and are often expensive. • Arbitration This is a process where both employers and workers ag... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Social Ramifications of Sexual Harassment

While women have gained several rights and recognition for their social and economic contributions, they are still the traditional victims of sexual harassment in different social settings, especially in the workplace. According to a study published by... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Harassment and Abuses in Workplace

Harassment creates an abusive and intimidating work environment and causes emotional distress and even economic damages to victims as it interferes with their work. In strict legal terms, harassment is any unwelcome conduct that is based on gender, rel... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

How to Terminate an Employee without Facing Lawsuit

Employers should be careful in terminating a worker to avoid costly lawsuit. To avoid legal consequences, company owners should know these termination laws: • Generally, employers can fire anyone unless there is an agreement or contract that stat... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Sexual Harassment Policy: Preventing and Resolving Abuses in Workplace

Recently, local officials in California passed a law that requires employers with 50 workers or more to provide managers with at least two hours of sexual harassment training program every two years. And since several studies suggested that ignorance is ... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Sexual Harassment in Workplace and How It Affects Employees

Sexual harassment creates an abusive and unsafe workplace for employees who are usually forced to tolerate such unwelcome sexual conduct just to keep their jobs. Contrary to popular belief, women are not the only workers vulnerable to unwelcome sexual ... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Harassment and Hostility in Workplace

Being a pro-labor society, federal and state laws have been created to protect workers from unfair labor practices such as discrimination, harassment, hostility, and retaliation. According to a recent study, one of the most common forms of employment... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

How to Cooperate in a Sexual Harassment Investigation

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reported 13,867 received sexual harassment in the workplace charges in 2008. That is the highest number of received cases since 2003. During these past few years there's also an increase in the nu... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

ADEA: Protecting older employees in the workplace

There is a significant increase in the number of age discrimination cases received by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, the number jumped to 19,103 from 2006's 16,548 cases. In 2008, a more significant increase occ... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Rights of Pregnant Women in the Workplace

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reported yearly increase in pregnancy discrimination cases received since 2006. In 2008, the EEOC received 6,285 cases of pregnancy discrimination cases. Los Angeles pregnancy discrimination attor... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

Why Employers Should NOT Rely Only On Resumes

Hiring someone based only on the information that appears on their resume can be a dangerous practice for businesses. Without performing an extensive background check, there is no way to determine if that information is true or false. Employers need th... Read >
Author: Lester Rosen

Sales Person Recruiting Process Step One: Identify

The process of recruiting sales people is like no other process in your organization. Most mistakes are made by relying too much on sales history. Sales history is like the disclaimer on stocks: "Past performance is not necessarily an indicator of future ... Read >
Author: Gulas Group

Sales Person Recruiting Process Step One: Identify

The process of recruiting sales people is like no other process in your organization. Most mistakes are made by relying too much on sales history. Sales history is like the disclaimer on stocks: "Past performance is not necessarily an indicator of future ... Read >
Author: Gulas Group

New Pregnancy Discrimination Regulations

According to a recent EEOC discrimination suit, employers should be cautious about routinely requiring fitness-for-duty certification from pregnant workers. This suit involved Britthaven, Inc. a corporation that owns and operates a chain of nursing homes ... Read >
Author: Cecily

The Law Protects Workers from Racial Discrimination

The law protects the rights of workers There are many existing laws in the US that protect the rights and welfare of workers against abusive employers and business owners. Meanwhile, one of the most common violations against employees often involves r... Read >
Author: Mesriani Law Group

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