The Employment Tribunal and the Employment Court

AIDS, employment, and the direct threat defense: the burden of proof and the circuit court split.

This Note examines disability-related discrimination in light of the protections afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and in the context of an HIV- or AIDS-infected employee. Under the ADA, an employer may legally fire a worker who poses a direct threat to the individuals around him or her. It is unclear, however, whether the burden of proving or disproving the claim that an in...

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...

Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states--Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi--and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also ...

Pregnancy Discrimination In Employment: Nurse’s Case Thrown Out By Court

ersons who in good faith file formal reports of actual or suspected incidents of abuse or neglect of vulnerable persons with appropriate officials are protected by law from their employers’ retaliatory actions. The Court of Appeals of Minnesota ruled recently, however, that this legal protection will not be extended to a caregiver employed to work with developmentally disabled adults who makes ...

Disabled and the Employment Tax