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A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
An example of cause would be an employee's behavior which constitutes a fundamental breach of the terms of the employment contract. Where cause exists, the employer can dismiss the employee without providing any notice. If no cause exists yet the employer dismisses without providing lawful notice, then the dismissal is a wrongful dismissal.
Employment protection refers both to regulations concerning hiring (e.g. rules favouring disadvantaged groups, conditions for using temporary or fixed-term contracts, training requirements) and firing (e.g. redundancy procedures, mandated prenotification periods and severance payments, special requirements for collective dismissals and short ...
Here are three lesser-known Social Security rules you should be aware of. Two people looking at a document. Image source: Getty Images. 1. Social Security's "do-over"
The WEP reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who get a pension from a job that didn’t require them to pay taxes into the program (despite having worked other jobs that did), while ...
Under the WEP, Social Security benefits are reduced if you receive a pension from work, did not pay into Social Security, and had fewer than 30 years of “substantial” employment or covered ...
Labor law's basic aim is to remedy the "inequality of bargaining power" between employees and employers, especially employers "organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association". [3] Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights , and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor ...
The Social Security program seems to face constant changes -- especially lately. A new Social Security reform bill (HR-4583) was recently introduced to the House of Representatives, and could ...