Article: PEOPLE MANAGEMENT : You're Fired - Exiting Employees Who Hold You Back ; It's not an easy topic to discuss, both for relationship and legal reasons, but sometimes an employer does need to relieve themself of a non-performing worker. Lawyers Clayton Kimpton and Charlotte Hatlauf-Coles discuss the process.

Article: What to do when your employee goes Awol; It can be frustrating for an employer trying to deal with someone who is always absent.(Workplace)
The Star (South Africa);  August 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ......vicious circle: nThe employer has an employee who is absent without...compliant manner. nBut the employee is absent and the employer has no way of knowing...absence is preventing the employer from disciplining the employee. In their resulting...

Article: Is employer responsible for acts of employee? (Insider).(security guard behavior)
Security Distributing & Marketing;  July 1, 2003 ;     568 words ......purposes, the employer is not vicariously liable for the employee's actions. Merely...the part of the employer. Instead, the employee's actions must...whether the employer could have reasonably foreseen the employee's tortious act...

Article: California Court of Appeals says employer may be liable for employee's attack on customer
Lawyers USA;  April 7, 2008 ;     265 words ...An employer may be liable for its employee's assault on a customer...superior, even though the employer has not authorized the employee to commit crimes or intentional...personal' remark to [the employee] - which [the employer] contends was the immediate...

Article: You can't just tell an employee to pack up and go; Even when a worker hasn't played by the rules, the employer still has to.(Workplace)
The Star (South Africa);  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Physical assault on the employer, a fellow employee or a client; n Gross...past, in cases where an employee has stolen from the employer, judges and arbitrators...principles when dismissing employees. Instead, employers need now, more than...

Article: Returning worker has right to old job; Employer must accommodate disabled or ill employee when they come back.(Careers)
The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario);  October 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Rights Code allows for employers in not returning an employee to their pre-disability...come down and make the employer put the employee back in their old job...Hamilton, representing both employers and employees. You can email him at...

Article: All parties are protected by contracts; do it right; Both the employer and the employee should understand and agree to all the terms.(Workplace)
The Star (South Africa);  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Act (BCEA) does require employers to inform employees in writing of their particulars...that is signed by the employee, the employer will have little difficulty...the agreement between employer and employee, the employer will have some protection...

Article: Who owns that idea? If your employee comes up with a great idea or invention who legally owns the intellectual property and can profit from it? Sarah Fairbrother looks at the rights of both employee and employer when an innovation or product is developed.(Legal Issues)
NZ Business;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......respective rights of an employee and employer in an innovation or product...employment' is owned by the employer. Suppose an employee has an idea for a gadget...agreement to the contrary . So employees and employers can come to some other useful...

Article: Employer may be held liable for fatal accident caused by employee, rules Maine Supreme Court
Lawyers USA;  November 6, 2006 ;     249 words ...An employer could be held...caused by an employee, Maine's highest...sponsored by the employer. He received...his work, the employee headed home...commenced against the employer. A judge dismissed...grounds that the employee was not acting...

Article: Off-duty dilemmas (courts are hesitant to recognize an employer's right to monitor an employee's activities away from the workplace).
LawNow;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......issues in the employer-employee relationship is the employer's right to monitor its employees' off-duty conduct...to suggest that employers have carte blanche to control what employees may do in their...principles: the employee's inherent right to privacy, and the ...

Article: In Employee Relations, It's Good to Be a B.A.D. Employer
The Journal Record;  May 13, 1994 ;     651 words ......type of analysis an employer should undertake to determine whether an employee will have grounds...actions taken by employers against employees. First of all, the...is "at will," the employer may terminate the employee at will, absent...

Article: Anxious employee's outbursts gave employer family leave notice, rules 7th Circuit
Lawyers USA;  November 5, 2007 ;     410 words ...An employer had constructive...an anxiety-ridden employee's need for Family...his illness to his employer or clear abnormalities in the employee's behavior may constitute...the FMLA if the employer knows of the employee's need for leave...

Article: Tulsa World, Okla., Action Line column: Employee is in clear if employer skips on taxes.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, Oklahoma) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  February 1, 2006 ;     349 words ......you. If the W-2 from your employer indicates that federal taxes...the IRS will credit the employee as having paid those taxes...the balance due from the employer becomes the IRS' responsibility...up. In the case where an employer is severely delinquent we...penalties because basically the ...

Article: Hearings must be formal, and also fair; Onus on employer to prove employee had a chance to state his case.(Workplace)
The Star (South Africa);  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......how can the employer go about proving...does accord the employee the following...summary, the employer's onus to prove that all the employee's rights have...right of the employee is strictly...process or the employer must hire a...

Article: What legal duties does an employer owe to a former employee?
Australasian Business Intelligence;  January 6, 2003 ;     202 words ......ABIX via COMTEX) An employer is seen as having...care to a former employee to provide a reference...emphasis on the employee's perceived shortcomings...experience, the employer can be seen to have...damaging to the employee's future employment...prospects. Similarly, an employer ...