Employment Law

If you are laid off from a job and your previous earnings qualified you for unemployment benefits, most of the time it's simply a matter of filing a few forms and showing proof of your identity before you begin receiving unemployment benefits to help tide you over...

Bullying in schools and workplaces has become a hot topic lately. But employers are dealing with an even harder issue to combat-textual harassment.Textual harassment is defined as bombarding someone with texts and messages on their phone. These messages could be...

The move towards telecommuting has already hit one extreme and come back towards the middle. Many companies will allow employees to telecommute, but realize the importance physically being in the office has on collaboration and relationship building. Employers no...

Worker's Compensation is guaranteed to every employee so that they are not forced to pay for injuries that occur while they are on the job. However, worker's compensation claims are costly for the employer, and some managers may be held accountable for the number of...

If you've been involved in a lawsuit against your employer, your top concern is getting things sorted out as soon as possible so that things can get back to normal. One way to make that happen as quickly as possible is for both parties to meet halfway and agree to...

The Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby established that closely-held corporations can both hold and exert religious beliefs. In Burwell, the Court ruled 5-4 that Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Wood Specialties, and any other closely held corporations could be...

Work relationships are evolving in the digital age, and so is the employment law that governs them. When you're telecommuting, you may talk to or interact with people daily and yet have never met them in person. So what happens if you have a dispute with your employer...

When you leave a job in West Virginia, whether you quit with notice, quit without notice or were fired, your employer has to pay you for hours worked. But what if your employer hasn't paid you in the time allowed, and wont' return phone calls, emails or see you in...

You've probably heard someone say that employers can't give bad references because they are afraid that they will be sued for them, or that employers can only verify employment dates, not job performance. That isn't true.There's not a single federal or state law that...

Age-related discrimination claims are on the rise: between 1997 and 2007, there were between 16, 000 and 19,000 age-related discrimination claims filed each year. But since 2008, those numbers have risen to between 23,000 and 25,000 claims each year. At the same time,...