Roundup: Proof in employment cases; Employee leave; Age discrimination, Noncompetes and injunctions; Excessive work and human rights
Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review
Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.
Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works !
This week we're answering the questions:
- Why is proving an employment law case so weird?
- What questions should you ask when figuring out employee leave issues?
- How are states addressing age discrimination in hiring?
- Are the cases challenging the FTC's ban on noncompetes really about noncompetes?
- Why don't the noncompete injunctions make sense?
- Can making someone work too much be a human rights violation?
Why Proof in Employment Cases is Weird
In civil litigation, the person who is making the claim usually has the burden of proof from the beginning of the case to the end. But not in employment cases.
The Family and Pregnancy Leave Quagmire
Here's a quick list of questions I ask when I'm dealing with a leave issue.
Next Up: Age Protections in Hiring
States like California and Colorado are making it illegal to ask a job candidate's age or any of the information that would make it figureoutable. Here's more on Colorado's new protections against age discrimination.
Noncompete Agreements and Injunctions
Here's more on the FTC ban on noncompetes and what the request for injunctions are about.
