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In order for such a duty to exist, the injury to the claimant must be "reasonably foreseeable", [4] meaning, for example, that the type of employment must be one in which an unfit employee could cause harm of the type which occurred, [3] and the claimant is the type of person to whom such harm would be a "reasonably foreseeable consequence".
One day at work, I was told to speak to an employee who was deemed combative. On the way to speak to this person, I felt like I couldn't catch my breath. I went to the bathroom to try to calm down ...
Because of unequal bargaining power, but also because of historic caution among American labor unions about taking on management, [361] shareholders have come to monopolize voting rights in American corporations. From the 1970s employees and unions sought representation on company boards.
Discouraged Workers (US, 2004-09) In the United States, a discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.
An American Delta Airlines pilot has been sentenced to 10 months in jail in Scotland after reporting for work intoxicated when he was scheduled to fly to New York last year.. Lawrence Barbiers ...
One way to avoid potential liability for wrongful dismissal with newer employees is to institute an employment probation period after which a new employee is automatically terminated unless there is sufficient justification not to do so. The dismissed employee may still assert a claim, but proof will be more difficult, as the employer may have ...
Generally they work through November, but some returned to their countries ahead of schedule due to the losses following the hurricane, said Ana Gutiérrez, a workers rights organizer for the ...
An employee may come to work because they simply need the money and cannot afford to take time off due to illness. Doctors may attend work while sick due to feelings of being irreplaceable. Additionally, one could go to work due to a love and devotion to the job; in this case, it could be considered an act of organizational citizenship and ...