An "employment contract and compensation agreement" establishes the terms of an employment relationship between the worker and employer. Although such a contract is not required for all employees of a particular business, an employment contract and compensation...
Month: September 2018
What is ‘color’ discrimination?
United States employers cannot discriminate against their employees on the basis of "race" or "color." This means that an employer cannot make hiring, firing, promotion, pay or other work-related decisions on the basis of an individual's race or color. Most Michigan...
All about employment-related religious discrimination
Businesses and employers cannot discriminate against workers -- or potential workers -- on the basis of the worker's religious belief system in the United States. By virtue of the First Amendment, one of the primary principles of the United States is protection from...
2 famous whistleblowers from recent history
Whistleblowers are people who witness unlawful or unethical behavior at their workplaces and decide to tell authorities and others about it. In most cases, people who "blow the whistle" on their employers receive more difficulty and headache than they do fame and...
Occupational Safety and Health Administration whistleblower help
One of the biggest dangers of becoming a so-called "whistleblower" is the threat of employer retaliation. Imagine, for example, that you work for a construction firm that engages in numerous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) safety violations...
Instructors receive settlement in age-discrimination case
Two university instructors have reached a settlement in an age-discrimination dispute that will give each of them more than $200,000.The two were teachers in the English as a second language program at Ohio State University. They claimed that the director of the ESL...