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Changing Company Holiday Schedule
Our company's employee handbook lists the company paid vacation schedule. On the bottom of the page, there is the disclaimer that the schedule is subject to change. The schedule includes, as paid vaca...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 14, 2007 1:04 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Confidentiality Statement
I signed a confidentiallity agreement with a company that I am working for that states " During employement with X company, employees may be exposed to certain information of a confidential or proprie...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 13, 2007 1:31 PM [EST]  |  applies to California

contract
My employer petitioned my green card. I signed a 3-year contract with an offer of $30/hr(June 2004) I paid $1,000 as bond which was refunded when I arrived in the US. I paid for all my exams and my pl...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 9, 2007 6:30 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Retalitation Claim
I was recently released from my position. The reason sited was inconsistant/poor performance. A week prior to being released I had made a complaint to Human Resources regarding my immediate Supervisor...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 9, 2007 11:21 AM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

civil service seniority
As a civil service bookkeeper, I know that I have seniority over a provisional bookkeeper. Our supervisor insist that the provisional has more seniority to protect her from being transferred over me. ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 7, 2007 7:42 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York

Wrongful termination/slander
Hi MEL.... This is an awesome website. My question is for a serverance pay agreeemnt can I change some of the language in the agreement for example. The agreement is standard and does not include the ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 6, 2007 11:41 AM [EST]  |  applies to California

Training count as hours worked?
I am an hourly factory employee. My employer is forcing me to go school for further traiing on my days off or after normal work hours. I have 2 questions. 1.Do they have to pay my hourly rate for the ...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 5, 2007 4:15 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Discrimination based on national origin
To make the story short, I am a female, who borned in Hong Kong. I was hired as System Analyst in Sept 06 at Texas State Agency. My boss is also a female who is from mainland China. Another girl in my...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 5, 2007 12:32 AM [EST]  |  applies to Texas

non-compete agreement
I received a job offer from an investment bank. However, a partner mentioned to me that the firm will likely request that I sign a non-compete agreement after I start (perhaps months later). After ini...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 3, 2007 10:20 PM [EST]  |  applies to Ohio

Non-compete problem
My company has been taken over and they are closing the New York office and moving select employees to Chicago. I am a VP of sales, but cannot go to Chicago because of elderly parents I must assist to...
1 answer  |  asked Mar 2, 2007 8:51 PM [EST]  |  applies to New York