Employment

Employment Law
Employment law involves all areas of the employee/employer relationship.  Employment law does not cover the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining.  Employment laws like the minimum wage regulations were established as protective labor legislation.

Specific Areas

Collective Bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements to regulate working conditions. The interests of the employees are commonly presented by representatives of a trade union to which the employees belong. The collective agreements reached by these negotiations usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms, and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs.

Employment Discrimination

Employment discrimination is a form of discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, and age by employers. Earnings differentials or occupational differentiation is not in and of itself evidence of employment discrimination. Discrimination can be intended and involve disparate treatment of a group or be unintended, yet create disparate impact for a group.

Unemployment Compensation

Unemployment discrimination is discrimination against unemployed workers. Companies who post job ads stating that an individual must be "currently employed" to apply or companies that do not hire applicants who are unemployed are discriminating against those who are unemployed.

Pensions

A private or government fund (or payments therefrom), from which intermittent and regular benefits or allowances are paid to a person upon his or her retirement or disability.

Workplace Safety

Workplace safety and health laws establish regulations designed to eliminate personal injuries and illnesses from occurring in the workplace. The laws consist primarily of federal and state statutes. Federal laws and regulations preempt state ones where they overlap or contradict one another. 

Worker's Compensation

Workers compensation laws protect people who are injured on the job. They are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary awards, eliminating the need for litigation. These laws also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. Some laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers in most accidents. State statutes establish this framework for most employment. Federal statutes are limited to federal employees or those workers employed in some significant aspect of interstate commerce.

Top Employment Lawyers

1. Abrahamson, Vorachek & Levinson

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2. Albrecht Backer Labor & Employment Law, S.C. 

http://www.abemploymentlaw.com/

3. Allan N. Karlin & Associates

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