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COURT RULING
The Death of the Noncompete?
By Josh Cohen
The California Supreme Court recently ruled that noncompete agreements are unenforceable. Because so many national and international employers do business in California and because California is often on the leading edge of legal and technological development, non-California businesses should take note.
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DISCRIMINATION CASE
Supreme Court Parses Protections for Internal Company Probes
October 9, 2008 9:35 AM PT
Employees participating in a company probe of discrimination may receive the same protections against retaliation as the person who filed the charge, if the Supreme Court rules in favor of a Tennessee woman.
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SUPREME COURT PASS
High Court Won’t Review Cash-Balance Pension Ruling
October 8, 2008 1:12 PM PT
Without comment, the justices let stand an August 2007 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that a cash-balance plan sponsored by a printing firm is not age-discriminatory.
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Policies and FMLA Rights For Ineligible Employee
A company handbook can create a contractual relationship or, in the alternative, the enforcement of a promise made in the handbook that the employee has relied on to his detriment. As such, courts have barred employers from asserting the defense of FMLA ineligibility.
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By taking a few simple precautions, companies can avoid falling prey to wage and hour lawsuits.
As service members return from deployment in Iraq, compliance with the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-Employment Rights Act of 1994 will be an issue for employers. Here are the act’s key provisions, and two recent cases of interest.
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Employers are being slapped with lawsuits—costing them millions of dollars in some cases—by workers who say they are being compelled to work through meal breaks. Antiquated labor laws are to blame, some corporations say. But plaintiff attorneys blame in part deteriorating corporate ethics.
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