FIN 26074 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Law Of Agency, Civil Rights Act Of 1964
12 Feb 2020
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Most of the law we are studying as employment law applies when a worker is classified as an employee . Relationship mostly governed by contract law and perhaps also agency law, not employment law. Salaried employees are those employees exempt from some provisions of the wage-hour laws (such as overtime) Category of an employee is a complex question, is industry specific and job specific. The desire of an employer, or the official title or classification given the employee usually has little importance in deciding whether an employee is salaried or hourly. An at-will employee can be terminated at any time for any . Even if an employee is called an at-will employee, however, reason there are various things that an employer can do that could create some degree of protection against termination. Labor laws- right to engage in organized labor activities. Fmla- 12 weeks unpaid leave for family matters (6 paid weeks in.
