Employee Rights Quarterly articles

Recent articles from Employee Rights Quarterly

Litigator's thumbnail guide to the WARN Act. (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act)
January 1, 2003... When large companies choose to lay off workers or close down plants without prior notice, they can be subject to extensive liability under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), including 60 days backpay to all affected workers, daily fines to local...

The Equal Pay Act: overview and update.
January 1, 2003... The gender gap is still an issue, though more and more workers are beginning to understand that wage differentials based on sex ate illegal under the Equal Pay Act of 1963. If the facts show a disparity in pay between male and female employees, then a claim may be possible for relief under...

Health care plan litigation.
January 1, 2003... Exacerbated by the state of the current economy, the elevated costs of providing medical insurance coverage to employees have begun to catch up with employers, creating cause for concern among employees and their advocates over the decreasing quality of sponsored health care and,...

How have the effects of 9/11 changed employment cases?
January 1, 2003... While conventional--read: "conservative"--wisdom initially questioned whether jury decision-making would take a sharp turn towards verdicts for the defense after the tragic events on September 11, 2001, new research shows that the opposite may be the case. The authors of the following...

The year employment law dominated the docket: how the Supreme Court's 2001-02 term affects employees.
January 1, 2003... In a busy U.S. Supreme Court term, issues involving employee rights--most notably those of disabled workers--saw more than their usual share of litigation time in the Court hallowed chambers. In the following roundup of the changes brought to employment law during the recently finished...