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Here are the answers to questions submitted to our attorneys about employment law issues. Questions are answered by primarily by Fair Measures attorneys Ann Kiernan and Rita M. Risser Chai. To search by specific workplace issues, please see our organized answers in our list of FAQs.
Is it legal to make employees attend a baseball game during their free time? Posted 08-05-2013 Steve Duggan replies: Employers have wide discretion on what they [...]
I'm an African American female. I wear my hair in its natural state. My white co-workers and manager make fun of my hair, saying there’s [...]
My manager laid me off saying that my job had to be eliminated, but then turns around and hires two more people with the same [...]
There is a practice that is happening at my place of employment that concerns me and I want to ask your opinion. Any time employees [...]
As an employer, before we hire an individual can we request they produce their W-2 from the previous year and their current employment contract for [...]
What if your employer hires your replacement and then tells you they want you to find another job, [but] it’s not based on performance? [...]
I just found out that my boss has followed me to the bathroom and a co-worker has experienced the boss entering the men's room and/or [...]
I was fired today because I refused to work on my day off. Were my rights violated? Posted 06-12-2013 Steve Duggan replies: I am sorry to [...]
If I tell an employee, who's also a nursing student, in confidence at my place of work that I was on anti depressants and suffering [...]
Posted 05-10-2013 Ann Kiernan replies: No. Managers do not have the right to interfere with employee access to Human Resources, or to the company hotline, compliance [...]