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For Employees Like the answer to most legal questions, it depends. The legal reason your employer is offering you a separation (or severance) agreement is to secure a legal release of almost every legal claim you may have against it. In exchange for a certain amount of severance pay, your employer achieves a sense of finality surrounding the termination in …
With so many employment laws on the books, at the state and federal level, and many with different requirements regarding applicability, it can be confusing to determine which laws apply to your business. Given the importance of different obligations, policies and restrictions imposed upon businesses by the various laws, and the hefty penalties for violating them, it is critical that …
Criminal background checks for employment purposes are commonplace. But recent literature from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency charged with enforcing employment discrimination laws, has suggested that certain criminal background check policies may violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 due to the varying rates of criminal activity among different minority groups. Title VII …
