The article discusses smoking issues in the workplace in Great Britain. A worker has no right to a break specifically for the purpose of smoking, but he has the statutory right to a rest break away from their workstation under the Working Time Regulations 1998. An employer cannot prevent a...
For instance, it’s common to accommodate for lactation breaks in the workplace. In fact, a breastfeeding law guarantees break time for new mothers who breastfeed and return to work. For such moms, breaks mean preventing medical complications and pain as well nutritional problems for babies. ...
Electronic communication restrictions and social media policies and still have a place in the workplace. The policies must be carefully crafted however in light of the NLRB rulings. We can help. Contact us to review your current policy for compliance and to draft a new one that works. New ...
aPerformance can be observed via ethno graphic studies of patterns of communication in the workplace,evaluations in terms of performance measures (e.g., the accuracy of weather forecasts), or evaluations of recall, recognition,or reaction-time performance in contrived tasks or think-aloud problem ...
work. Twenty per cent of the workers said they did not take a lunch break. They worked through their lunch hour. Half of the people took a break but ate their lunch at their desk and surfed the Internet, answered e-mails or went on Facebook. One in five people left the workplace ...
At law firm Proskauer, employees who have taken substantial parental leave receive 100 per cent of pay for a 75 per cent working schedule in their first six months back, under its CaRe programme. This gives them time to work out childcare arrangements and commuting schedules. HR staff work wi...
Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts This important book breaks new ground by asking how oral histories might be incorporated into existing text-based, "black letter law" court systems. Along with a compelling analysis of Aboriginal, legal, and anthropological concept...
The legislation,House Bill 500, would allow employers to stop offering their workers “reasonable” lunch and rest breaks, mandatory under current Kentucky law, and end the requirement that employees who work seven days in a row receiveovertime pay. ...
The inability to use the bathroom when needed comes in ahigh-injury industry, where the repetitive motion involved in the work can leave workers with wrist pain and worse. "We've seen women that can't hold babies because their hands are so deformed from processing a chicken every two second...
Illinois labor laws work hand-in-hand with federal legislation like the Fair Labor Standards Act, but here's a factoid that may surprise you: Federal law doesn't actually guarantee meal or rest breaks for workers (though it does guarantee that employees are paid for their time if certain typ...