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Personnel File Retention Requirements--the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Congress enacted the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) to prevent employment discrimination on the basis of age against persons 40 years of age or older. The ADEA applies to most American employers with 20 or more employees. To...

Strikes under the National Labor Relations Act

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA) provides that employees have a right to engage in certain "concerted activities," which include strikes, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. The NLRA also...

Posters in the Workplace

Most American employers are subject to a number of federal workplace laws and regulations. To ensure that employees are made aware of the protections afforded to them by these laws, employers must hang various posters describing them. This...

Employee Inventions -- Special Employment

When a person creates or invents something during the course of employment by another person or business, he may or may not own his creation. Typically, employer rights to the invention are determined by whether or not the individual was hired...

Invasion of Privacy

In general, employees have no right of privacy in the contents of their employer-owned computers. Although there are limited privacy protections that apply to voice communications over company-owned phone equipment, those protections do not...