The March 2008 LEL Newsletter discussed one type of disloyal employee conduct – competing with the employee’s employer while still an employee of that employer. http://www.lera.illinois.edu/Pubs/newsletters/LELNewsletters/2008/March2008.htm As discussed there, disloyalty does not include all actions an employer might consider disloyal. It is a very narrow doctrine, limited to specific sorts of [...]

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One of the legal areas in which there is great confusion is deciding whether a worker is an employee. Confusion on this issue is a serious problem, because employee status affects whether a person is covered by workplace statues. An example of this sort of confusion may be found in a recent [...]

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Congressional Research Service, Kathleen S. Swendiman & Nancy Lee Jones, The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Selected Legal Issues R40560 September 1, 2009 http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40560_20090901.pdf
Congressional Research Service, Sarah A. Lister & C. Stephen Redhead, The 2009 Influenza Pandemic: An Overview R40554 September 10, 2009 House Education and Labor Committee’s hearing on Nevada’s Workplace Safety and [...]

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Dorothea Alewell & Andreas Nicklisch, Wage Differentials and Social Comparison: A n Experimental Study of Interrelated Ultimatum Bargaining, 29 Int’l Rev. L. & Econ. 210 (2009)
Irene Ayers, The Undertraining of Lawyers and its Effect on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in the Legal Profession, 1 Duke F. for L. & Soc. [...]

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One of the benefits of operating a business through a corporation is limiting liability to just the assets of the corporation. However, under some conditions, a plaintiff or creditor may pierce the “corporate veil” and seek monetary remedies. The usual target is owners of a corporation who have not treated it as a separate [...]

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Another finding that can mean one entity is liable for another entity’s legal obligations is the alter ego or the disguised continuance alter ego doctrine. The alter ego involves two related entities that operate at the same time, for example, a “double-breasted” company. The disguised continuance alter ego involves a company that claims to have [...]

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An employer (1) who buys or performs the work of a business and (2) whose employees include a majority of the prior employer’s employees may be found to have succeeded to the prior employer’s bargaining obligations. When an employer is a successor, it must recognize and bargain with the union that represented the employees of [...]

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