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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Minnesota I have been employed by my firm now for 15 years. The first 7 years I served as a mechanical drafter and 6 of those 7 years, I served as the lead drafter. For the next 7 years, I served as a mechanical designer, taking my drafting......
XtrahoursI'm from California, I'm exempt employee. I'm working 10 to 11 hours a day total of 50 to 60 hours per week. when I complained about this issue my manager told me that because I'm exempt employee I don't work in the context of 8 hours, but work to accomplish my responsabilities. It this is true?......
XMAS hoilday payIn MA, if the employer lists in the employee handbook that the Christmas Holiday is a "paid holiday", are they required to give us a day off with pay for Christmas (being on Sunday and we don't work Sundays)? Thanks...
X-Employer Sueing Me... Can He Do This?What is the name of your state? IL I used to manage an outomotive shop for a guy. To make a long story short... I walked out on the guy one night after he came unglued on me and used language at me that no Christian man should. Now, months later, he is sueing me. He claims I violated company......
X employer payroll mistake wants me to pay? Do i have to?What is the name of your state?OregonMy former employer would pay me 150 dollars a week for 3 weeks of the month. Then the fourth week would pay me with a check through his accountant, and send it in the mail. I told my employer i was going to quit working on the tenth of this month. (I am a......
X Employer Holding $I was working as a So called Independent contractor in LA for a Car Detail company, Working at a shop I was getting 20% of the jobs we did then Dan who is the owners brother and running the shop asked me if I wanted 40% but I had to pay for Alfonso's hours he was the other guy who worked with me.......
X- CIA Tenet Wants to Destroy the 'Net in Order to Save ItA controlled-access Internet? By Scott Bradner Ex-CIA Director George Tenet worries about the Internet. He seems to think that its basic nature and current use presents an ongoing threat that the U.S. government may have to fix. In his view the threat is such that the use of the Internet, or at......
WYOMING WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT Labor Law PosterYour employer has qualified with the Workers' Safety and Compensation Division for the coverage of injuries arising out of and in the course of employment, while at work on or about the premises occupied, used or controlled by the employer. This coverage is for extra-hazardous industries and......
WYOMING STATE MINIMUM WAGE labor Law Poster$5.15 per hour A training wage of $4.25 per hour is allowed for employees under age 20 during the first 90 days of employment....
Wyoming Labor Law PostersEmployment law requires that employers post mandatory Wyoming labor law posters. Each company must publish accurate and updated federal and state Wyoming labor law posters. Wyoming Labor Law Poster must Includes minimum wage, OSHA and employee right notices. Comply with Wyoming labor laws and......
[Government & Administrative Law] What is the name of your state? Ohio I've been wondering this for a while. How can the Patriot Act be Consitutional? Doesn't it go againt many right listed in the Bill of Rights? My question is why hasn't the Patriot Act been tried in the Supreme Court yet? Has it been tried in court at all.........
Breach of contract?[Consumer Law & Fraud] Ontario, Canada. I know that this says US only, but I just need to ask. I took over the ownership of a Martial Arts club in February. At this time the club had members that had paid a 1 year membership. Currently, I have had to close this club down due to the fact that the instructor has quit.........
Advice needed (COBRA)[Insurance Law] What is the name of your state? Columbus Ohio......
Parole: Coerced servitude w/out judge's orders. Technicalities behind pre MR release.[CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE] What is the name of your state? The answer is: "Wisconsin".Please, if you would, answer the following questions: 1) If there is no order by the sentencing judge for one to do community service, then would the parole agent technically be in violation if the agent ordered the parolee, or.........
Can my old boss declare me Bankrupt?[BANKRUPTCY & CONSUMER CREDIT] Can anyone help? I worked in a commision based role for 16 months. There was no employment contract in place. My boss sent me 3000 twice from his personal account as a gift between Jan 09 to April 09. I left the company 4 weeks ago and he has now filed a Statutory Demand under section 268(1)(a).........
My mail at work[BUSINESS & FINANCIAL & Corporate LAW] What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Texas Can my boss open my mail if it comes to the office we work out of?......
Who is the owner?[Wills & Trusts] What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? MS I inherited a home from my great-grandmother, the will reads fee simple absolute the house belongs to me. The will also gives life-interest in the property to my grandfather(her son). He is also the executor. For the last few years we have lived.........
tax liability vs voluntary[Tax Law] What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state?GA Hello, I have been searching the web and have come across some interesting websites. I have sense started reading the IRS tax code and many trials. Here is one of the sites: http://famguardian1.org/Subjects/Taxes/taxes.htm and.........
Sentencing Regulations[CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE] What is the name of your state? Washington State. My question is in regards to what the general rules are on a life sentence? Where can I go to learn about charges and sentencing guidelines and general information on criminal laws? I know that Texas has a really good web site of information.........
Felony on private property update from previous thread[Traffic Law] Just wanted to let you know 'the rest of the story'. I was referred to an attorney thru a 'friend of friend'. The attorney has dealt with the 'towing' company operators before. According to TN law regarding towing procedure, he says that we will be able to charge the towing company with Grand.........
My employer has recently been on what seems like an effort to break our Union membership. They are now isolating union members that stand up for themselves only when our union steward is unavailable for "meetings" on whatever issues they have. When our members ask to have their union......
I made the mistake of emailing my General Manager to let him know that I would be attending an interview next week. He is on a cruise and I wanted to give him as much of a heads up as possible so he could begin looking for a new employee and because I respected him, I felt it was the right thing......
My wife works for a company in West Virginia where her payroll is a culmination of salary, commission, sales bonus, and reimburstments. Her payroll is direct deposited and is supposed to get a payroll stub. The woman who does the payroll is being a real witch about paying what is due, and this......
I have a two part question. #1) Is a construction company in WV required to have a minimum number of hours paid due to show up time i.e (incliment weather, lack of work, etc.)? #2) In WV, are we required to give employees paid breaks? In the past, we have given them a 30 minute lunch unpaid, and......
Hello there, my name is Melinda and my employer has just asked everyone in the company to sign up for direct deposit. I have denied wanting to do this do to some financial problems. So to punish me for not listening to him, he has taken $20.00 from each of my paychecks to cover writing me a......
I work as a newspaper photographer. For the last 13 years I've worked 9-5:30 Mon-Fri. My employer says the extra 1/2 hour is so we can take a full, 1 hour lunch. We are able to leave the office to eat, however, if breaking news erupts we would have to finish our lunch immediately and cover it.......
I am working for an institution who has in the past and is going to again withhold the "27th" paycheck that exempt employees would be paid this year. They state that we are only to be paid 26 paychecks in the year. Is this a state law? Can they legally write this into their......
I am a helthcare professional. I was employed in North Carolina. Recently I received a job offer from a hospital in California. I left my job in NC and moved to CA with my family. Upon arrival I completed all the required formalities and was ready to start work. I was given a start date and I......
What is the name of your state? Texas I have been fired for gross missconduct of company policy. But what really happened was, I was sitting in the passenger seat of a truck on location and an employee opened the door and hit me in the back of my head repeatedly untill I blacked out. This seemed......
What is the name of your state? michigan the local walmart has been putting people wit hany restrictions ( like weight restrictions) on a leave of absence and then telling them they cannot use their vacation or sick time to cover it. when i went on a leave i was able to but n ow they are forcing......