Failure To Pay Lawsuit For Super Market Chain

A super market chain most popular in the southern regions such as Florida, Alabama, and Georgia has been slapped with a failure to pay lawsuit by four former employees.  They claim that Publix Super Markets, which has more than 1,000 hourly workers statewide, has failed to pay overtime. The Sun-Sentinel reports that "the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Panama City earlier this week, claims that managers should have been paid a rate of "time and a half" for overtime hours instead of the "half time." The statement made by Publix at this time is that they have complied with the overtime pay employee labor laws. "We are confident that we're doing the right thing by our associates," said spokeswoman Maria Brous. The lawyers representing the plaintiffs on the case,...

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The Key to Healthy Employee-Employer Relationship is...

Have you heard this line lately in business corporate circles: It is only a matter of trust? The line contains a few words but a wealth of meaning. It simply refers to the fact that without trust, the business world would come to a standstill. It is trust that lubricates the wheels of business. Even more so, the trust that must exist between employee and employer. When employees fail to trust their CEO, the company will suffer in terms of transmission breakdown, high attrition rates and wasted creativity and innovation. In the long run, it will lose out to its more robust competitors. After all, to paraphrase Thomas Watson: The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. The good news is that...

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Redundancy Employment Law In The UK

UK employment law covers various topics to do with the rights of employees and the obligations of employers, from minimum wages, working hours regulation, anti-discrimination provisions, fair-pay requirements and unfair dismissal rules. One of the major areas of the employment relationship that is regulated is redundancy. Employment law on redundancy covers the entire process of redundancy, including the notice given to employees, the process for selecting employees for redundancy, and the redundancy pay due to employees. Redundancy employment law regarding the process of redundancy requires employers to give affected employees sufficient notice regarding the redundancy process. Employees must be consulted about the redundancy process...

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More Employment Law Changes 2012

More Changes To Employment Law There are a two more I thought were noteworthy.  These changes are geared toward employee electronic verifications and worker's compensation.  Also cancer now qualifies as worker's compensation if obtained during the course of employment due to exposure for active firefighters. First let's look at AB 1236.  This refers to the E-Verify program in accordance with US Homeland Security partnership.  This enables participating employers to use the program, on a voluntary basis, to verify that the employees they hire are authorized to work in the United States.  However, it is prohibited to require an employer except for government entities to be required an...

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What 2012 Brings To Employment Law

So today I just read a post published from a couple of months ago that the San Francisco Chronicle did on the changes being made to employment law in California.  I also noted some other employment law changes you can read more about below.  Employment law is something all employers and employees should thoroughly familiarize themselves with.  The law seems pretty basic looking at it from the a wide scope lens but, it is important to look a little closer into what these law actually mean for both sides.   At any rate, the article I mentioned above pointed out a couple of points employers may want to keep abreast of.   I've aded a few more employment law changes that the post didn't.  I'll summarize a few...

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At Will Employment -What Does It Mean?

 Who Does At-Will Apply To? At-will employment is applied to any employee who does not have a clearly defined contractual employment agreement. Essentially it means that an employer can dismiss an employee at any time, without cause. For employers, this can be a sense of relief because the employer does not have to deal with a difficult or troubled employee, should the situation present itself in the workplace. Employers and employees often misunderstand the implications of this law. What is California at-will employment law exactly? It's defined as any employment arrangement where there is no contract and either party - that is, the employee or employer - can terminate the employment any time with proper notice....

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