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Can You be Fired or Terminated for No Reason |
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Written by B. Clark, Esq.
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011 22:56 |
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 Can your boss fire you for no apparent reason or seemingly unfair reason? If you are fired for no reason can you file a lawsuit for monetary damages or to get your job back? Every attorney has been face with this question at some point. Virtually every state in the union follow some form of what we call the employment at will doctrine. Employment at Will doctrine basically provides that an employer may fire his employees for any reasons, no reasons and even unfair reasons, as long as they are not illegal reasons.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:21 |
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Fighting Debt Collectors with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act |
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Written by B. Clark, Esq.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011 19:28 |
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 The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) is a federal statute enacted to eliminate abusive practices in the collection of consumer debts, to promote fair debt collection, and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. The Act provide guidelines on how debt collectors and/or their representatives may conduct business. FDCPA defines rights of consumers against debt collectors, and prescribes penalties and remedies for violations of the Act.
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Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 21:14 |
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Who gets Overtime Pay and Minimm Wages |
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Written by B.Clark, Esq.
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011 05:35 |
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) set standards for minimum wages, overtime pay, record keeping, and child labor. These standards apply to both full-time and part-time, in the private and public sectors.
The FLSA applies to businesses with employees who engage in interstate commerce, produce goods for interstate commerce, or handle, sell, or work on goods or materials that have been moved in or produced for interstate commerce. The Act does not cover businesses with less than $500,000 in annual dollar volume of business.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 23:35 |
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Is it Legal to Record a Telephone Conversation |
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Written by B. Clark, Esq
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:03 |
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The advancement of the technology makes extremely easy and cheap to record telephone and cellular phone conversations. At some point in time we all find our self contemplating recording a conversation. Before you run and grab your recorder it is important to know that there are both federal and state laws that regulate the recording of a conversation both via a phone and in person. And, violation of such laws could have both criminal and civil consequences.
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There are both federal and state laws that protect you from an unsafe and unhealthy workplace. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 also known a OSHA is the federal law that set certain safety standard to eliminate threats to workplace safety. The primary reason OSHA was enacted was to assure safe and healthful working conditions by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act. OSHA also authorizes states to implement their own safety and health programs. State programs must be at the very least as effective as the federal OSHA program, must provide similar protections for workers and state program must be approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.