All Questions and Answers about Employment Law

What violation is it?
My supervisor told me that if I did not wear the newly required uniform the following day when the new company policy took affect that I would be sent home. She never informed all the workers as she d...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 19, 2004 10:03 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Legal Actions by Employer?
I have a friend who doesn't speak English who signed an agreement entitled "Independent Contractor, Non-Competition and Confidentiality Agreement." She works for a cleaning service and is not at all a...
2 answers  |  asked Feb 19, 2004 6:43 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois

Terminiated After Giving Two Weeks Notice
I gave my job two weeks notice that I was leaving the company. On the day that I handed my notice and they told me to leave the company and not to return. The company handbook states that" an employee...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 19, 2004 4:12 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Non Compete/Child Care Center
I was employed by a private day care center. As condition of my continued employment I was asked (as well as all employees) to sign a Non Compete contract after being employed for 1 month. The Day car...
2 answers  |  asked Feb 18, 2004 5:06 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

Financial help during maternity leave
The company I work for has unpaid maternity leave up to 12 weeks. Is there any supplement help within the State of Ohio (temporary disability, ect). I would like to take advantage of spending the time...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 18, 2004 10:06 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Ohio Employment and Labor Law
I'm a college student writing a resarch paper on Ohio Employment and Labor law. Can you give me some general websites i can visit to get some information?
1 answer  |  asked Feb 17, 2004 4:58 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Employment termanation due to Court Summons
My husbands received a court summon and now his employer is trying to hold that missed day of work for grounds to fire him. Is that legal? We were under the understanding that a summons is like a supe...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 17, 2004 12:23 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

reduction in pay to meet OT requirements w/o increasing costs
The employee is non-exempt and works approximately 10 hours per week in OT. This has been occuring regularly for several years. In a sudden effort to reduce costs, the company wants to cut the employe...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 16, 2004 2:17 PM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

FEEL I BEEN SHAFTED AT WORK
THERES IS ALOT TO THE STORY, I FILED A GREVINCE AGAINST THE COMPANY AND THE BOSS THREATED TO NAIL MY ASS TO THE WALL IF I WENT WITH THE CHARGE. WELL SINCE THEN I HAVE BEEN FIRED ONCE.iGOT MY JOB BACK ...
1 answer  |  asked Feb 16, 2004 1:20 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Severance Pay
Do I as and fired employee have the right to sue for severance pay? I was fired due to the fact my husband was fired the day before.
1 answer  |  asked Feb 16, 2004 12:04 PM [EST]  |  applies to Pennsylvania