| Churches and State Employment Law Liability |
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| Employment Law Liability Overview More... |
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| Occupational Disease Coverage under Workers' Compensation Statutes |
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| Occupational diseases are generally defined as ailments that are contracted or aggravated due to the nature of a particular kind of work. State workers' compensation statutes usually allow workers to receive benefits for occupational diseases. In order to obtain benefits, an employee must generally prove that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment. More... |
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| Employer Monitoring of Employee's Electronic Communications |
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| Several decades ago, the question of whether employers could monitor employees' communications was relatively simple. It was fairly well established that while employers could monitor business calls, they could not, with a few limited exceptions, eavesdrop on employees' personal phone calls. Today, employee communication has become high tech..More... |
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| Distinctions Between Employees and Independent Contractors |
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| BackgroundMore... |
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| Pre-Employee Screening -- Reference Checking |
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| Threat of Defamation LitigationMore... |
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