Definition of “Contract”
A contract is defined as an agreement between two parties that creates a legal obligation for both parties to perform a specified act. In a contract, each party is bound by law to perform the requested duties or to render a monetary payment. Something of value must be exchanged between the two parties [...]

As a Financial Executive it is especially important to know and make sure your company is covered with Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI). In this episode Jim will have Robin Campbell, an Insurance Specialist with the Pavese-McCormick Agency explain the importance of having an Employment Practices Liability Insurance policy. This episode is from an actual [...]

A couple of decades ago, sexual harassment in the work place was a given, today when it happens it is a potential costly lawsuit and damage to an entire company’s reputation and brand name. Sexual Harassment lawsuits are quite common still and they often bring rather large awards, especially when juries hear the details, and [...]

Small organizations have become a major target of employment law attorneys across the country. If you have 500 employees or less, you are in their gun sites. And picking off these small companies are like shooting fish in a barrel. Here are the reasons why small to mid-sized companies have become the “prime prey,” and [...]

An allegation of harassment in the workplace is a growing phenomenon facing companies across the U.S. The following is an article derived from a 2003 seminar I attended at the National Business Aviation Association {NBAA} Convention in Orlando, FL. The full name of the seminar was – Indecent Proposal in the Workplace – An Overview, [...]

Perhaps it should be no surprise to anyone that when the job market gets stressed where unemployment rates are too low as they were or too high, which is where they are currently headed due to the financial crisis and bottom of the business cycle; lawsuits increase. If you run a small, medium or large [...]

Many employees don’t realize that when they doctor up their resumes or they purposely make mistakes on their resume to make themselves look good, they are actually committing a fraud. It is indeed a fire-able offence if and, employment laws, when they are caught. Many employees, employment laws, tell white lies [...]

“In wrongful dismissal cases, the wrong suffered by the employee is the breach by the employer of the implied contract term to give reasonable notice before terminating the contract of employment. Damages are awarded to place the employee in the same position as he/she would have been had reasonable notice been given.
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Legal issues always seem to be something that other people are involved in, and something that you need not concern yourself with, but it is easy enough to find yourself quickly embroiled in a legal battle. The legal process might begin with a simple altercation with a neighbor or an argument over pay at work, [...]