Employer’s not always required to pay for those types of days, sick days, holidays, personal days. Many employers by contract with the employees will do that. They’ll do that through an employee handbook or written policies and procedures. Under those circumstances, the employer has to abide by the promises it made to the employee.
Continue reading ›An employer can not force somebody to do something. In other words they cannot lock them in or make them do something through some kind of compulsion, but the employer can ask the employee to stay later. The employee could say no and the employee could say yes. The issue is, does the employee want…
Continue reading ›Not every discrimination law covers every employer. Most anti-discrimination laws require a certain number of minimum employees. For example, Title XII of the Civil Rights Act, as well as the Florida Civil Rights Act, require a minimum of 15 employees for the law to apply at all. Other laws, though, do not require a minimum.…
Continue reading ›A salary employee is someone who gets a fixed amount of money, regardless of the number of hours worked.
Continue reading ›If the employer refuses to pay severance pay, the first question the employee has to ask is was there a contractual obligation of the employer to pay severance pay. Typically there is not. Many times, executive level employees will have written contractual agreements that state that they’re entitled to a certain amount of severance pay…
Continue reading ›There are damages only if there is a contractual obligation for the employer to pay severance pay. Severance pay means that the employer is going to pay a certain amount of money at the end of the employment relationship. Some employees have written agreements ahead of time, where there has been a promise by the…
Continue reading ›Deductions from an employee’s wages typically are going to be taxes such as social security tax, medicare tax, federal income tax withholding. Sometimes there’ll be other things that are required by the government to withhold such as child support. Typically though an employer sometimes will enter an agreement with an employee where there will be…
Continue reading ›There are many laws that protect employees from employment discrimination. Examples of these laws include laws that prohibit employees from being discriminated against based on their race or their ethnicity or their gender. There are many other laws that the legislatures have created in recent years, such as discrimination based on sexual orientation or whistle…
Continue reading ›Employment at will means that the employer does not need a reason, nor does the employee need a reason, to terminate the employment relationship. It can be terminable at any point in time with or without any reason. A cause provision, by contrast, requires there be a good reason for it: for example, poor performance,…
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