#employment-law

#employment-law

A court in Barcelona has ruled that a worker's absence from her job to take her critically ill dog to be euthanised was justified on humane grounds, overturning her dismissal and highlighting evolving legal recognition of the bond between people and their companion animals. The Social Court No. 25 of Barcelona declared the disciplinary dismissal of a teleoperator improper after she missed several days of work, including one absence specifically to attend to her dog's urgent medical needs.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Wednesday that it has asked a federal judge to require Nike to provide information for its investigation into alleged racial discrimination. The sportswear giant is accused of intentional systemic discrimination against white employees, with some requests for information dating back to 2018. A Nike spokesperson called the filing a "surprising and unusual escalation." "We have shared thousands of pages of information and detailed written responses to the EEOC's inquiry and are in the process of providing additional information,"

My last layoff, from a news-adjacent tech startup, came via Google Hangouts. My access to everything was turned off at the beginning of the call and I had to dial in from my personal account to finish getting laid off. By this point, I had seen several colleagues laid off, the company's lone human resources person leave and a new chief revenue officer come in. I was prepared, and it made a difference.

The plaintiff, hired in 2009 as a vice president in the French branch of Credit Suisse's UK operations, believed she had been discriminated against "because of her sex, her pregnancy and her status as a mother". In court, she cited about 10 incidents to support her claim, including "structural sex discrimination within the company" and the "sudden termination of her variable compensation coinciding with her pregnancy".

In the new year, companies have to disclose in publicly advertised job postings whether AI will be used when selecting a candidate and if the position advertised is vacant, according to incoming changes to the Ontario Employment Standards Act. Postings will need to list the salary range for the position with a maximum difference of $50,000 and mention other forms of compensation, including commission and bonuses.

"The creation of the FWA marks a step change in the Government's attitude towards employment rights and shows they will take a proactive approach to enforcing them," H-J Dobbie, Head of HR Consultancy at Azets, said. "Many of the areas the FWA will enforce when it launches in April - Statutory Sick Pay, statutory holiday entitlement, and agency worker protections for example - are areas employers should already be complying with, but if they don't, the consequences of not doing so will become more serious from the spring of next year."

It's that time of year again: Update your handbooks and conduct your harassment training and get it done before the office holiday party. Every employer in New York State, regardless of size, is required to provide harassment training to each of its employees every year. This is not news. What is often unheard of, however, are the many and unexpected ways that you as an employer can end up exposed to liability when you fail to provide that training.

India has announced a sweeping set of labour reforms, saying it will implement four long-delayed labour codes that the government says will modernise outdated regulations and extend stronger protections to millions of workers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on X on Friday that the overhaul would provide a strong foundation for universal social security, minimum and timely payment of wages, safe workplaces and remunerative opportunities.

The core of his argument rests on the claim that Baraka was employed under Belgian law but the EU had him on a rolling one-year contract, an alleged breach of national laws which state that after three consecutive contracts, workers must be made permanent with the concomitant workers rights. A provision that allows an employer to renew fixed-term contracts is contrary to Belgian and European public policy, the claim says.

Anita Little's lawyer said she had been scapegoated as she was granted an interim injunction restraining her dismissal in the High Court today

This is more than a legal win, it's a cultural stand. Public schools cannot bully employees into silence because they dare to express their faith or conservative values.

I work in a very strictly run call center. Shift start and end times, breaks, and even when we're allowed to go to the restroom are all highly regulated. Since we handle credit card and other confidential information, we are not allowed to use cellphones on the floor. The other day while taking one of my bathroom breaks, I took out my phone and responded to a text message while "doing my business." When I returned to my station, a supervisor greeted me with a write-up in hand.

A University of Toronto professor has been placed on leave after making a controversial comment online in the fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week. According to screenshots, Ruth Marshall, an associate professor of religious studies and political science, posted on her now-private X account, formerly Twitter, that "shooting is honestly too good for so many of you fascist c--ts." The tweet was posted at 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, about an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump shared on social media that Kirk had died.

"leave the gay at the door."

Late last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the agency was acceding to decisions by U.S. regional circuit courts vacating the agency's Biden Administration-era rule banning noncompete clauses from U.S. employment contracts and preventing their enforcement. While some lawmakers have decried the decision to end this rule, the FTC also issued a request for information (RFI) as the Trump Administration seeks to develop a case-by-case enforcement approach for cracking down on noncompete abuses.

The Labour Court has told lawyers it is facing a "severe impact" on its operations after the Department of Public Expenditure "blocked" the reappointment of a senior official, leaving it running at one-third capacity. Legal professionals working in the area of employment law were told in a statement this afternoon that there would be "serious delays to [the court's] hearing of individual employment rights cases" and to the resolution of industrial relations disputes, starting this week.

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"is a strong indication that a settlement has been reached."

Under the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, 100% of service charges collected in a venue must be shared among workers in a fair and transparent way, and employees have the right to know how tips are allocated and distributed.