But such clauses increasingly show up in employment contracts, too.
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The court's decision could affect some 25 million employment contracts.
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There is also a fundamental shift with employment contracts underway.
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They confirmed that this includes all employment contracts and all claims.
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And companies often lay out as much in their employment contracts.
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Why, for instance, do employment contracts have so few formal obligations?
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Many include non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements in employment contracts upfront.
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It's incredibly easy for employers to add these provisions to employment contracts.
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Now we're seeing them as standard clauses in so many employment contracts.
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Open doors for women with caring responsibilities by offering flexible employment contracts. 41.
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Award employment contracts cover about 2.2 million employees, or 21%, of Australia's workforce.
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Lewis, No. 16-258, is whether the same principles apply to employment contracts.
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The court's decision on the matter could affect some 25 million employment contracts.
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Most people have no idea that they have them in their employment contracts.
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Zero-hour contracts refer to employment contracts with no minimum guaranteed hours of work.
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These workers have employment contracts with third-party vendors rather than with Google directly.
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He also pointed to a "persistence of temporary employment contracts characterized by precarious conditions".
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This occurs daily in America—in cell phone, credit card and even employment contracts.
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But the safeguards announced in Obergefell extended only to marriage licenses, not employment contracts.
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Some employment contracts explicitly require doctors to refer patients to a hospital system's own facilities.
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It's one that until February of this year, Google enforced in its own employment contracts.
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Bridgewater, like many financial services firms, includes noncompete clauses in some of its employment contracts.
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France is famous for strong rights enjoyed by those people who have traditional employment contracts.
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Carlson became a vocal proponent for the elimination of forced arbitration clauses in employment contracts.
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The employment contracts at issue in the case, she said, have been forced on workers.
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Arbitration clauses in employment contracts are a recent innovation, but they have become quite common.
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The bill amends the state's labor law and only applies to formal employment contracts or agreements.
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A main task for lawyers in the interim would be examining current employment contracts, Bradford said.
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International graduate students at the institute now have employment contracts, and thus better protection against termination.
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Google's employment contracts forbid its employees from recruiting their co-workers immediately after leaving the company.
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Googlers crowdsourced employment contracts from Facebook, Uber, and other companies, she reports, as well as contractors.
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Far from burying its arbitration clause in its employment contracts, WeWork is proud of its policy.
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In a third case, the appeals court ruled these kinds of employment contracts can be legal.
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Often used at tech companies, nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements.
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Read these stories next: The Sinclair Broadcast Employment Contracts May Not Be Fair, But Is It Legal?
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Last Monday, the justices heard argument in a trio of cases concerning arbitration provisions in employment contracts.
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"We believe Fox's use of fixed-term employment contracts in this manner are enforceable, " the spokesperson said.
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Short-term employment contracts will be restricted and new pension provisions will be made for low earners.
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Differences in rules on employment contracts or product-safety requirements, for instance, act as barriers to trade.
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Bottom line: Employment contracts and policies are loaded with legal jargon that can be confusing or unsettling.
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Insurance may not be able to help on this front, but financial incentives and employment contracts can.
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Companies have always owned their employees' labor, but today's employment contracts often cover general knowledge as well.
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Subit noted in an email that there is a "significant variety" in forced-arbitration clauses in employment contracts.
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Nobody should be afraid of losing his job ... That is why we will abolish fixed-term employment contracts.
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California businesses — large and small, early and late-stage — have routinely included such provisions in their employment contracts.
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The senators also call for an end to mandatory nondisclosure agreements and non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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The question for the justices on Monday was whether they should use a different approach for employment contracts.
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The question for the justices in the new cases is whether the same principles apply to employment contracts.
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In other words, if AB 3080 is passed, it would not preempt any existing employment contracts in the state.
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Several members of those teams have already negotiated and signed new German employment contracts, one of the sources added.
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But while I mentioned employment contracts generally, it's a fair point that I could have brought up unions specifically.
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Rip-off clauses in employment contracts can stop justice for systemic wrongdoing in the workplace, including for sexual harassment.
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Warren would also favor legislation to ban "no poach" provisions, arbitration agreements, and class action waivers in employment contracts.
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And on Wednesday, the legislature passed a bill that would ban mandatory arbitration clauses and nondisclosure agreements from employment contracts.
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Arbitration clauses are also common in employment contracts, and for sign-ups for cellphone and cable service, among other sectors.
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"Figuring out the language, employment contracts and how we were going to do our taxes was tough," Thornhill told CNBC.
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Arbitration agreements began creeping into U.S. employment contracts in 1991, when the Supreme Court ruled that the practice was legal.
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They're required by corporate law, company policy and in many cases their employment contracts to report misconduct to the board.
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The new government says this has allowed a boom in short-term employment contracts and has given workers less security.
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But employment lawyers say Idaho companies tie down all levels of workers, not just top executives, with tough employment contracts.
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The party's manifesto promises to raise the minimum wage and scrap the kinds of employment contracts used at the warehouse.
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What sorts of things have happened at the bottom end of society in terms of workers' rights and employment contracts?
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The spread of mandatory-arbitration clauses in employment contracts and the decline of trade unions are both signs of that imbalance.
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Union representatives say the company's decision to fire the workers and impose self-employment contracts on staff breaks Poland's labor laws.
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Journalists, students, workers or lecturers who have valid invitations or employment contracts in the U.S. would be exempt from the ban.
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International Consolidated Airlines Group said it would also ground flights, freeze discretionary spending, reduce working hours and temporarily suspend employment contracts.
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He now runs the place, managing construction, negotiating employment contracts, and, these days, figuring out how to price articles of clothing.
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Some 163 percent of employees not represented by unions, she wrote, are subject to employment contracts that require class-action waivers.
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Roughly 60 million Americans are subject to mandatory arbitration agreements, generally as part of employment contracts they signed when they were hired.
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Once the new rules take effect in four months' time, they will be valid for existing employment contracts, not just new ones.
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Officers seized HK$106,000 and 242 passports along with a large number of employment contracts, bank documents, debit notes and bank receipts.
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Employment contracts govern how they can be used in a particular film or commercial, while a performer's will can address broader issues.
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The story has been updated to include the newly filed lawsuit, as well as to clarify the changes in Uber's employment contracts.
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And they are often prevented from taking their cases to court because of a growing trend of arbitration clauses in employment contracts.
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Like other independent contractors, including nannies and housekeepers, models have fewer legal protections than workers whose employment contracts are more tightly regulated.
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In response to a request from CNN, Cathay Pacific said that every staff dismissal is made in accordance with relevant employment contracts.
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While employment contracts follow local labor laws on paper, interviews with agents and team leaders revealed how call centers get around overtime rules.
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In Ireland it can instead hire pilots and flight attendants under short-term, individual employment contracts arranged by a hiring agency in Singapore.
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Most employment contracts, including Ms. Carlson's, also require any sexual harassment claims to go to arbitration, where all evidence and proceedings are secret.
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Deliveroo will drop a controversial clause in its employment contracts with couriers which prevents them from taking the company to an employment tribunal.
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Some domestic workers are employed and managed by agencies, but many are directly employed by people or families and often lack employment contracts.
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Those on employment contracts and "long-term casuals" will receive two weeks' pay for each year worked plus their notice period, Lebedev told staff.
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I have to assume that the four pending petitions do not present the justices' last chance to review mandatory arbitration provisions in employment contracts.
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They have to do only with collective bargaining and "closely related" activities "such as picketing", he wrote, not to the terms of employment contracts.
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Most employment contracts in America give employers blanket rights to monitor employees and collect data about them, but few workers are aware of that.
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"Passports and employment contracts would be returned to the debtors if they could settle their loan by making a one-off payment," he said.
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Many of those protections remained, Mr. Jansen said, but much of the new hiring in the democratic era took place through temporary employment contracts.
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Uber has responded to the suit Mr. Nesmith filed by invoking a requirement in its employment contracts that drivers must take disputes to arbitration.
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Weinstein, O'Reilly and their companies have used nondisclosure agreements, in legal settlements or employment contracts, to compel employees to keep quiet about alleged wrongdoing.
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Lewis, upholding the use of forced-arbitration clauses in employment contracts to foil class-action lawsuits like those used to challenge systemic sexual harassment.
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The workers in the cases say employment contracts are different from consumer contracts because the National Labor Relations Act protects "concerted activities" by workers.
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Companies often insist on it, stipulating in employee handbooks or employment contracts that workers must cooperate when called to testify or risk getting fired.
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Several states, including Massachusetts and Colorado, that allow noncompete clauses in employment contracts generally won't enforce them against doctors, according to Mr. Clark's analysis.
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Other examples include the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts and concerted efforts by businesses to diminish the role of labor unions.
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For years, sexual harassment victims found themselves unable to speak freely about their experiences, either because of provisions in their employment contracts or settlement agreements.
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"Corporate entities need to have clauses in all employment contracts that if you are found to have committed sexual harassment, you are terminated," he says.
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But most job candidates want to know about company culture, daily workload, and whether their boss is a nightmare before they sign any employment contracts.
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New York and Washington have passed legislation banning nondisclosure and arbitration clauses for sexual harassment claims in employment contracts, as a matter of state law.
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Earlier Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court said companies can in employment contracts require workers to arbitrate rather than pursue class-action claims over workplace matters.
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Instead, they emailed a joint statement, calling Catholic school teachers, counselors and administrators "vital ministers" in the church's mission, an expectation outlined in employment contracts.
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The workers' employment contracts required that they resolve such disputes in arbitration rather than court and, importantly, that they file their claims one by one.
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The Human Rights Watch report said it had documented workers at six stadium sites who were not provided with employment contracts, as required by law.
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But over the decades, economists have learned to apply his ideas to the modern design of insurance products, financial securities, employment contracts and much more.
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This would require all "users" of labour to pay into the national fund, with exemptions for those providing employment contracts and other benefits such as training.
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"I think the only thing you see outside of college sports that would be comparable to NLIs is non-compete clauses [in employment contracts]," Zola says.
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Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said it is both endorsing the legislation and getting rid of such clauses in its own employment contracts.
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O'Leary told Reuters Ryanair needed information on Air Berlin's leases, employment contracts and terms with airports before it could determine how much restructuring it would need.
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These fees are lower than the dues members pay, but they cover the union's cost of negotiating employment contracts that benefit all workers in the unit.
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Many employment contracts also included a confidentiality agreement that prohibited workers from publicly sharing personal details about Dov Charney, the company's founder and former chief executive.
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The judge sided with Adams, arguing that the Federal Arbitration Act — which allows businesses to resolve contract disputes through arbitration —has a provision excluding employment contracts.
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He built a unit of 120 officers, many of whom came from local and nearby forces, according to employment contracts for the squad reviewed by Reuters.
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The growth of restrictive employment contracts dovetails with a broad pattern in the labor market: People don't quit their jobs as much as they used to.
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He built a unit of 120 officers, many of whom came from local and nearby forces, according to employment contracts for the squad reviewed by Reuters.
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The House passed legislation Friday aimed at preventing mandatory arbitration in consumer and employment contracts in a 85033-186 vote that generally fell along party lines.
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"[NDAs in standard employment contracts] are often very damaging" to employees who think they are legally required to stay silent about harassment they've experienced, Romer-Friedman said.
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According to the lawsuit, when Sabre did not distribute updated employment contracts a few years ago, contractors reached out to Deborah Lyons, then the Canadian ambassador there.
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Last year, the Treasury Department and President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers released papers on the economic harm wrought by noncompetes and other restrictive employment contracts.
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It had a forced arbitration requirement for new employees until earlier this year, but it made arbitration optional and then eliminated the clause from employment contracts altogether.
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Kirkland Ellis, the largest law firm in the world, abandoned forced arbitration clauses in its employment contracts with workers last year after a campaign by law students.
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Similarly, Congress could render noncompete clauses unenforceable in federal courts unless employment contracts provide due process protections, such as arbitration, against capricious or unjust discharges of employees.
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President Trump would not need Congress, however, to reverse Obama administration regulations disfavored by business groups, including agency prohibitions on mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer and employment contracts.
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One concession Google made is a partial end to mandatory arbitration, a rule typical of many employment contracts that prevents employees from suing their employer in open court.
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One of Andre's subpoenas requested employment contracts and correspondence about any work Parnas might have performed, and names Ballard Partners, Trump, and Giuliani as potential employers of Parnas.
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Both employers argued in their petitions that the Supreme Court should hear a private case because employers and their workers are the parties directly impacted by employment contracts.
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RR Donnelly said it would contact the workers' trade union and "evaluate the possibility of terminating all employment contracts in coming days" to reduce the impact of bankruptcy.
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A new decision by a federal judge in Madison, Wisconsin, exposes a weird discrepancy in how Dodd-Frank deals with whistleblowers whose employment contracts include mandatory arbitration provisions.
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Hong Kong's Labor Department has announced changes to employment contracts, but the underlying question of what rights do the city's migrant domestic workers deserve is far from resolved.
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Companies can embrace education as part of their commitment to employees, adding education benefits and integrating them into employment contracts via online courses and other educational technologies (edtech).
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It is part of a broader move by the labor board to go after employers in other industries that are using similarly restrictive employment contracts and employee handbooks.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether companies can use employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues.
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For years, Google's employment contracts have included a clause requiring staff to hash out grievances behind closed doors instead of suing the company in the public court system.
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"The proliferation of forced arbitration is one part — but not the entirety — of how employers are increasingly using employment contracts to deprive workers of rights," said Harvard Law's Gerstein.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues.
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This illustrates how these systems rely on forcing workers to have a 7-day "open availability," a common aspect of at-will employment contracts used in the service industry.
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"The broad arbitration provisions in Levandowski's employment contracts require that disputes with anyone arising out of or related to Levandowski's employment must be arbitrated," wrote Arturo Gonzalez, Uber's layer.
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The visa applications said the workers would be employed as administrative or technical staff at the consulate or Moroccan U.N. mission, and some included fake employment contracts, it said.
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Structures vary from place to place, but Wall Street now broadly defers more pay, uses more stock in pay packages and inserts claw-back provisions in more employment contracts.
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Turkey's lira weakened 0.9 percent after the government eased its ban on using foreign currencies in business deals, including export-related contracts, capital market instruments and employment contracts involving foreigners.
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In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix said that it "believe[s] in employee mobility" and doesn't believe Fox's use of employment contracts is "enforceable" under the law.
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Although the law governing employment contracts has long been regarded as a matter for states, a group of Democrats in Congress, led by Elizabeth Warren, has proposed a federal ban.
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The Supreme Court case centered around clauses in employment contracts that require employees to resolve disputes through arbitration, and preclude them from joining with others to file class-action lawsuits.
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The instability families felt in the deep recession and its aftermath have lingered and employers continue to hold the cards in setting employment contracts for pay, benefits and working conditions.
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But the Ninth Circuit concluded that fine-print arbitration requirements and confidentiality terms in their employment contracts were enforceable and prevented them from banding together or making their complaints public.
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Once the expansion failed, Oyo reneged on its employment contracts, going so far as to ask staffers to take 40 percent pay cuts if they wanted to be employed directly.
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The three were also accused of modifying the termination clauses in their employment contracts to ensure that they would receive multimillion-dollar payouts even if they were fired for cause.
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When cruise-ship workers sign their employment contracts, they agree that if they have a conflict with the cruise line, they will settle it through arbitration rather than in court.
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On Monday, the court will hear arguments about whether companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prohibit workers from linking together to take legal action over workplace issues.
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The employment contracts for Weinstein Company workers also included broad NDAs that kept them from talking to law enforcement, an investigation by the New York attorney general's office later found.
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While some employees are protected by the minimum duty hours outlined in their employment contracts, other workers Business Insider spoke to are frustrated and equated the cuts to a furlough.
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Those changes include noncompete clauses in employment contracts and even outright collusion, in which companies explicitly agree not to hire workers away from one another or to offer identical wages.
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Public Citizen applauds this step, but we urge Microsoft and all companies to completely ban the use of forced arbitration in employment contracts for all claims of discrimination and harassment.
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Complicating all this movement are the noncompete agreements, common in employment contracts, which force executives to wait for as much as a year before moving from one auction house to another.
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There is a deep split among the federal circuits on mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts, which have become so prevalent that they bar millions of workers from filing class actions.
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Lewis, the decision last month in which the Court held that bosses are allowed to include (and enforce) provisions in employment contracts forbidding workers from joining a class action against them.
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Golden parachutes got their name over 50 years ago to describe the clause in top executive employment contracts that helped them leave with financial cushions after a change of corporate control.
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To recap: Mandatory arbitration provisions in employment contracts have divided the federal appellate courts so intractably that the winners of two lower-court rulings agree the Supreme Court should reconsider their victories.
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In theory, workers may have rights under their employment contracts which limit the reasons why an employer can fire them, but this will almost certainly not be the case in the NFL.
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Non-compete clauses in employment contracts are increasingly common in the medical sector, which can mean that patients lose contact with their providers when they switch practices, the New York Times reports.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has announced exemptions to its ban on using foreign currencies in business agreements, including export-related contracts, capital market instruments and employment contracts involving foreigners, the Official Gazette said.
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None had policies tailored to protect refugees or migrant workers, with only two saying they prohibited the payment of recruitment fees and required employment contracts to be translated in the worker's language.
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By slipping mandatory arbitration provisions with class action waivers into employment contracts, employers guarantee that any challenge they face will come from a single plaintiff in a court unfriendly to their claims.
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The companies' employment contracts required their workers to pursue any pay disputes in arbitration rather than in a regular court, and to do so individually — which is prohibitively expensive for most workers.
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But rather than being a respite from the swamp of bureaucracy, these new employers are acting like roach motels with the liberal and coercive use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
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This month, Main Street Americans and public interest groups began banding together to push technology companies such as Google, Microsoft and Twitter to stop putting forced arbitration clauses in their employment contracts.
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The barriers include employment contracts and occupational licensing laws that cover a third of the work force and require people to spend months or years training to do even basic service jobs.
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In a 5-to-4 vote, split along ideological lines, the court ruled that companies may use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to prevent workers from banding together in lawsuits over workplace disputes.
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Why it matters: The complaints are filed under a law that allows them to circumvent their employment contracts' arbitration clauses, which have become a controversial practice many argue strip employees of their rights.
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Jerry Brown (D) for a signature, would ban secret settlements that require victims to stay quiet about crimes as well as mandatory arbitration clauses and nondisclosure agreements in employment contracts, BuzzFeed News reports.
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Before it begins enforcing the order, which the labor ministry passed in November, the association will need to issue new employment contracts to migrant workers in the seafood and fishing industries, said Chotikajan.
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The government will return more unemployment insurance premiums to job-saving firms and subsidise small firms to hire college graduates with employment contracts longer than a year, the cabinet said in a statement.
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In a 5-4 decision on Monday, the court said that companies can use arbitration clauses in employment contracts to bar workers from joining forces in legal actions over problems in the workplace.
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Congress (Democrats and Republicans alike) could not find the gumption to act on the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act, first introduced in 2009, which would have outlawed such provisions in consumer and employment contracts.
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U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady ruled that Snowden violated a series of employment contracts he signed by not submitting the book prior to publication to the CIA and NSA for review (Bloomberg News).
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While Google eliminated forced arbitration in its own employment contracts following employee protests, contractors can still be subject to such agreements with the third-party companies that hire them to work at Google.
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The Twitter account of a bookmarking site run by the leader of an anti-Trump activism group is asking employees of tech companies to leak their employment contracts to help strategize future action.
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"The employment contracts of minor league players relate to the business of providing public baseball games for profit between clubs of professional baseball players," Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the appeals court panel.
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Not being tied to more traditional employment contracts gives those workers fewer employment rights and benefits, and it's been found that the fierce competition among marketplaces and workers has led to lower wages overall.
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DUBLIN, March 15 (Reuters) - Ryanair will offer direct employment contracts within the next few weeks to all pilots in Germany who are currently on contracts via an agency, the budget airline said on Thursday.
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Tech workers hoping to capitalize on the success of last year's walkouts by Google employees are launching a social media campaign against forced arbitration clauses that are commonly found in Silicon Valley's employment contracts.
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"Any actions taken by the [airline] with regards to our employees is always in strict accordance with the terms of their relevant employment contracts as well as applicable laws and regulations," the spokesperson added.
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Mr. Griffin said that employment contracts could not require workers to give up collective action in arbitration but that the private entities that conduct arbitration could require that cases be pursued one by one.
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"It's certain that today we would not move thousands of people to Paris where we would find ourselves facing very, very protected employment contracts," Courboin told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in Paris.
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Investigators also found that workers were being forced to sign blank employment contracts and were provided with poor living quarters, which often housed eight people in one room with unsanitary facilities and no hot water.
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The city imposes few limits on freedom of movement (though only a minority of its population has an official hukou, or household-registration certificate), is relaxed about employment contracts and does not discriminate against outsiders.
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Although golden parachutes are standard and non-binding shareholder advisory votes can't overturn employment contracts, the payouts don't exactly line up with the industry's complaints that they're barely scraping by on razor-thin profit margins.
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"Todd" and "Jessie" booked the room without incident Such arbitration clauses have become common in consumer and employment contracts, although their use has often been criticized as a way to short-circuit the legal system.
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Unionised LOT employees began a strike on October 18 over changes to employment contracts and another factor was LOT's dismissal of chief union representative Monika Zelazik from her job as flight attendant earlier this year.
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Book Entry With the fall of the studio system, when actors labored under long-term employment contracts, came the rise of the talent agents, those mysterious professionals whose job is to procure employment for artists.
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And in the wake of a 2017 Supreme Court ruling that allows employers to prohibit class-action claims from workers in arbitration, companies have even more incentive to add arbitration clauses to their employment contracts.
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Cabin crew from across Europe published a list of 34 demands on Wednesday, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language based on local rather than Irish law.
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Among the cases the court has already agreed to take up next term are three about whether companies can use employment contracts to prohibit workers from banding together to take legal action over workplace issues.
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And in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows employers to prohibit class-action claims from workers in arbitration, companies have even more incentive to add arbitration clauses to their employment contracts.
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Fox alleges that Netflix has been conducting a "brazen campaign to unlawfully target, recruit, and poach valuable Fox executives by illegally inducing them to break their employment contracts with Fox to work at Netflix, " Deadline said.
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The crew involved in the case had employment contracts drawn up under Irish law which said their work was to be regarded as being carried out in Ireland since they were working on Irish-registered aircraft.
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"In response to media enquiries, Cathay Pacific confirms that two pilots have been terminated in accordance with the terms and conditions of their employment contracts," the Hong Kong-based airline said in an e-mailed statement.
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In a trio of cases involving wage and hour disputes, the court grappled with whether employment contracts with clauses that force workers to settle disputes individually with an arbitrator violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
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Junior doctors, or resident medical officers, want to stick with existing employment contracts because they say new terms the government proposes would mean longer shifts and allow doctors to be moved to other hospitals without notice.
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Despite their widespread use, these agreements often catch departing workers off guard because they are rarely highlighted during interviews and are usually tucked inside employment contracts that are full of impenetrable legalese few people can understand.
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The rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would apply only to the financial companies regulated by the agency and would not touch arbitration clauses buried in the fine print of nursing home or employment contracts.
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Also out of luck are workers for whom federal law dictates a test is required (like truck drivers), as well as those who are mandated to take drug tests because of employment contracts or collective bargaining agreements.
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The campaign aims to highlight the problems with companies using forced arbitration agreements, a common clause buried in employment contracts that strips workers of their right to take their employers to court over issues in the workplace.
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"The Court (of Justice) points out first of all that, as regards disputes related to employment contracts, the European rules concerning jurisdiction are aimed at protecting the weaker party," the Luxembourg-based ECJ said in a statement.
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Now, she and her fellow gig workers are trying to one-up Deliveroo by making the slogan a reality: Mensakas is self-managed by its workers, who have employment contracts rather than being misclassified as independent contractors.
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Last week, the Labor Department said that, starting in January, new employment contracts would contain a clause prohibiting domestic workers from cleaning any windows without secure grilles, or from extending anything but their arms beyond window ledges.
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And it should restrict mandatory arbitration clauses in employment contracts, which require workers to give up their right to take their employers to court; such clauses were endorsed by a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in May.
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In the coming year, I'll be working to get bipartisan support for the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2017, which would keep mandatory arbitration clauses out of employment contracts, giving harassed workers the choice to go to court.
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Today, the Supreme Court ruled that it's legal for companies to require employees to sign arbitration clauses in their employment contracts, making it impossible for these workers to bring class action lawsuits against employers over labor disputes.
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Employment contracts, for example, do not specify every action an employee must take, nor all the obligations of an employer, possibly because it may be better to leave room for either side to punish the other's bad behaviour.
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Among more than 70 recommendations are an increase in the minimum wage, higher pay for those on employment contracts that do not guarantee work and the inclusion of workers on boards of companies with 250 or more employees.
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The office of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which launched an investigation into the Illinois-based company's non-compete agreements in late 2014, said on Tuesday that Jimmy John's also agreed to drop the agreements from employment contracts moving forward.
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JLR, Britain's biggest carmaker, has said it is already feeling the first effects of Brexit, with EU citizens from outside the UK demanding more secure employment contracts and international suppliers less willing to commit to investing in the country.
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Cabin crew from across Europe earlier this month published a list of 34 demands on July 4, including "a fair living wage", improved sick pay and employment contracts in their own language, based on local rather than Irish law.
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Along with direct employment contracts for new joiners, plus agreements to recognize unions in some countries, Ryanair has also dropped the cost of some training, known as a type rating, ordered more simulators and has 100 new training pilots.
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But an estimated 30 million Americans — nearly one fifth of the nation's work force — are hobbled by so-called noncompete agreements, fine print in their employment contracts that keeps them from working for corporate rivals in their next job.
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The debate over window washing began last month, after the Philippine Consulate sent a letter to employment agencies saying that it would require new employment contracts for its citizens to stipulate that domestic workers were banned from cleaning windows.
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In a narrow 5-4 split along ideological lines, the majority ruled that it's legal for companies to put clauses in employment contracts that force employees into arbitration and prohibit them from joining together in a class action lawsuit.
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In the wake of its acquisition of SmartOps, SAP, says Tayur, sought to ensure that key salespeople, engineers and product managers stayed on by offering such incentives as short-term employment contracts and/or bonus payments after certain periods.
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The law, signed last year, bolsters the enforceability of the "non-compete clause," language often inserted into the fine print of employment contracts — from tech workers to hair dressers — to make it harder for people to leave to a rival company.
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Fowler and other critics of the practice argue that consumers and employees are disadvantaged when they sign forced arbitration clauses in employment contracts and terms of use, which effectively prevent them from launching lawsuits against companies they have disputes with.
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TC: You might be aware of all the talks around contractors, in particular in the U.S. Uber drivers, Postmates delivery persons… Many consider those jobs as insecure jobs, some courts are trying to turn those jobs into full-time employment contracts.
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But a lack of employment contracts and toxic fumes were among findings by the Danish media watchdog Danwatch and two Danish media outlets, TV 2 and Politiken, in a collaborative report documenting conditions for Indian workers at the shipbreaking yard.
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The last government enacted several measures it had promised, such as an income-support benefit for the poorest, legislation to limit short-term employment contracts and the closure of a loophole through which many convicted of corruption had wriggled free.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Prosecutors in New York have charged a former Moroccan ambassador to the United Nations and others with visa fraud, accusing them of bringing workers to the United States using fake employment contracts and then exploiting them.
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It was forced to cancel a number of flights last week due to the strike by the cabin crew and pilots over changes to its employment contracts and to demand the reinstatement of LOT's chief union representative, who the airline had also sacked.
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Epic Systems Corp, in its petition for certiorari filed on Friday, highlighted the deep circuit split on the issue that has emerged since the National Labor Relations Board first ruled in 2012 that class-action waivers in employment contracts violate federal labor law.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Philippine workers and activists marched in a May Day rally in Manila on Tuesday in protest against what they said was President Rodrigo Duterte's failure to keep a campaign promise to get rid of short-term employment contracts.
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The question in these cases is whether workers are bound by company-imposed employment contracts requiring that they bring workplace complaints via arbitration rather than lawsuits, and that, further, they waive their right to bring these complaints in arbitration as class actions.
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When founders are building out their hiring practices, even at the early stages of their companies, they should understand what N.D.A.s are in their employment contracts, and consider the impacts on their colleagues, should those N.D.A.s be applied to sexual harassment cases.
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Former President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2014 that banned forced arbitration clauses in new employment contracts for large companies that contract with the federal government, an order that could eventually cover the 28 million people who work for federal contractors.
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The core question still is how and why the Infosys board approved an unusual and unprecedented severance payment agreement of 1000% (of the standard Infosys employment contracts) to the former CFO, and why the board did not disclose this information proactively and much earlier.
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Ryanair refused to accept the registration papers of a newly formed Polish union and threatened workers with redundancy if they did not accept self-employment contracts with its Polish subsidiary, Ryanair Sun, by September 30, the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) said in a statement.
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This is a step beyond the very dumb transfer rule that forces scholarship players to sit out when they transfer—but at least those players sign employment contracts in the form of scholarship tenders and have some sort of formal, binding agreement with their schools.
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Another factor detrimental to young people were the emerging trends surrounding employment -- particularly those of zero-hour contracts (employment contracts where people are expected to work as needed), the so-called "gig" economy and a saturation of college graduates resorting to "non-graduate" positions.
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Several months after the PolyGram deal, in September, 1998, SG Cowen, the Société Générale subsidiary, acquired Bannon & Co. According to an official at SG Cowen, no meaningful consideration was exchanged for Bannon & Co., but Bannon and his partner, Scot Vorse, were given employment contracts.
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" — Desiree Cachette, The Netherlands, Managing Director, Cachette Capital "When we first started with Adam over 5 years ago he did all of our contract work — any contracts and corporate documentation for the sales team, all corporate government contracts, NDA's, privacy policies and employment contracts.
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By 2015, the companies had sent Adam Skelos more than $300,000, ostensibly for consulting or employment contracts, even though he did not bring in any clients, often did not show up to work and even threatened to smash in a supervisor's head, prosecutors said.
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For me, it was tough to read Mayer Brown's paeans to arbitration without thinking about the thousands of workers who have attempted to assert arbitration demands, as required in their employment contracts, only to see their employers refuse to pay the requisite fees to launch their cases.
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"Human trafficking is a phenomenon that really worries us," Filipe Moutas, a police captain in Portugal's National Republican Guard (GNR), told Reuters as a team checked workers' employment contracts and identity documents during a raid on a 100-acre (40-hectare) raspberry farm in Alentejo last week.
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"Waymo especially should not be allowed to avoid arbitration where it has alleged pervasive collusion between Levandowski and Defendants, and where its claims are connected with, and founded on, Levandowski's alleged misconduct while he was a Waymo employee — conduct that his employment contracts governed," Uber argued.
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However, the natural recourse for allegedly unfair dismissals would be to contact a union or draw upon another form of labor protection, and to insist that practices like at-will employment contracts, which allow employers to dismiss a worker for any reason, come to an end.
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"In some situations, employees can claim that the agreement is unconscionable or, in rare cases, that it wasn't properly entered into because they weren't aware of what they were signing," says Rachel Arnow-Richman, an expert on employment contracts at the University of Denver Law School.
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Google is facing similar claims from an unidentified employee in proceedings before the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, which recently struck down confidentiality agreements and other employment contracts that could discourage workers from discussing concerns at T-Mobile USA Inc, DirectTV and a number of other companies.
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But a key element of the plan, forcing staff to move to self-employment contracts, is being probed by Polish authorities and a law to allow contractors to join unions — and potentially push for concessions granted in Western Europe — is due to enter force there in January.
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Following Monday's decision, which could affect as many as 25 million employment contracts nationwide, companies will only have more incentive to stiff their workers, knowing that they'll rarely be sued — and even if they are, they're likely to fare better in arbitration than in the courts.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both the Senate and the House has introduced legislation that would get rid of "forced arbitration" clauses for sexual harassment in some employment contracts that require employees to settle those complaints in private, prohibiting them from taking their cases to the courts.
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There is little regulation over their employment contracts, most helpers only have Sunday off—albeit still with a curfew—and there's a harsh "two-week rule" in which, if a contract is broken, a helper must leave the city if she can't find a new employer within two weeks.
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Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor whose disclosures about highly secret U.S. surveillance programs rocked the nation's espionage agencies, must pay the federal government proceeds from his new book because he failed to first get approval for that book's contents as required by employment contracts, a judge has ruled.
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But it is also a timely hedge in case the national team does not resolve its labor dispute with U.S. Soccer before its collective bargaining agreement, which dictates the terms of the players' annual compensation, expires at year's end — and, with it, all of the players' employment contracts.
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We've created a situation where more wealth flows to the top, and various things have happened at the bottom end of society relating to workers' rights and the way employment contracts are being done, which means there is a definite shift in both power and money toward the top.
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Googlers lobbied their bosses to kill a Pentagon drone AI contract, stop work on a censored Chinese search product, and strip forced arbitration agreements out of their employment contracts; Microsoft, Amazon, and Salesforce workers delivered similar letters urging their companies to cease any form of collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Now Equity, which by dint of its status as a labor union has access to an unusual cache of data — the type of employment contracts signed and salaries paid to 51,000 actors and stage managers — is trying to spur further action by quantifying precisely what is happening for its members.
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The NCAA insists that athletes are simply students who happens to be good at sports, and as such can neither be considered school employees nor allowed to be paid; at the same time, NCAA-administered NLIs subject athletes to restrictions that no other students face, and are more onerous than most employment contracts.
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Tony Robbins says this simple technique sparks genius How job-hopping can help you snare a fatter paycheck Lindner added that employment contracts are also offered to those in senior positions at the top of the organizational chart as well as to those in project-based positions that have employment start and end dates.
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The labor board has set its sights on several aspects of Bridgewater's employment contracts, including the confidentiality agreement, a nondisparagement clause and a compulsory arbitration provision that states that if mediation fails, employees must enter binding arbitration and waive their right to a trial by jury or to participate with other employees in a lawsuit.
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The free-to-use hiring platform has a new business model too: opt-in staff management services where it can take care of recruitment and HR related admin for SMEs — from generating employment contracts to managing payroll to paying related taxes — charging a take rate from the hire's payroll for this service (it's experimenting with the exact percentage cut at present).
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"By burying a forced arbitration clause deep in the fine print of take-it-or-leave-it consumer and employment contracts, companies can evade the court system, where plaintiffs have far greater legal protections, and hide behind a one-sided process that is tilted in their favor," Chairman Jerrold Nadler, a New York democratic representative, said in his opening remarks.
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Cruise lines use arbitration agreements to prevent lawsuitsWhen cruise-ship workers sign their employment contracts, they agree that they are subject to the law of the country their ship is registered in, and if they have a conflict with the cruise line, they will settle it through arbitration rather than in court, said Michael Winkleman, a maritime lawyer for Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & Winkleman.
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When the Supreme Court ruled last month that employment contracts could prohibit workers from bringing class-action lawsuits, activists in states like New York, Vermont and Oregon escalated their efforts to pass so-called private attorneys general legislation, allowing workers to bring cases on the state's behalf that could benefit all affected workers, the same way litigation by an attorney general would.
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They say they're confident that the protests will only escalate if the chief executive, Sundar Pichai, and his team don't put forth a plan to act on some of their demands, among them a worker representative on the board of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and an end to employment contracts that prevent class-action lawsuits and require individual arbitration for discrimination and harassment cases.
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We're certainly not a dictatorship; but our institutions have been undermined, our freedom of speech is under attack from our own president and from corporations (through restrictive employment contracts and excessive litigation – consider, for instance, the case just brought against John Oliver for his mocking of Robert Murray), there is a tremendous wealth gap, and our justice and patent systems are largely determined by the financial resources of those involved.
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" Gretchen Carlson, former Fox News anchor "Since jumping off a cliff 20 months ago and filing my sexual harassment lawsuit, I've been working diligently to change the laws on Capitol Hill to take arbitration clauses out of employment contracts" Karuna Nundy, lawyer and activist, India "If there was only one could change I could make I would make sure that there was 50% of the places, seats for judges on the Supreme Court were for women, because I think that would have a major effect down the line.
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BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - * Sinopec Oilfield Service Corp plans to cut 4,000 jobs this year due to structural overstaffing, having let go 2,000 employees in the first half, company spokesman Li Honghai said on Wednesday * The planned lay-offs account for just under 5 percent of the company's total staffing * The job reductions include early retirements and cut-off to employment contracts extensions, Li told Reuters over the phone * Li said company staffing was bloated due to over-rapid expansions during days of high oil prices * Company returned to profitability in the first half of this year versus net loss a year earlier, due to a rebound in oil prices and pick-up in overseas activities (Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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