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Employment Rights

February 9, 2018 By Valerie Johnson

When The Company Calls You An Independent Contractor, But Controls You Like An Employee

Are you labeled an “independent contractor”? Do you work for an employer that promised you the opportunity to own your own business?  Did that employer help you get started in the “business,” but now tells you what to do every day?  Does the company dictate what time you go to work and what price you […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Contractors, Employment Contract, Employment Rights, Independent Contractors

March 18, 2015 By Valerie Johnson

Injured at work and fired

William called with a painful situation: he fell at work and hurt his back, and his employer fired him once the doctor said he would need surgery. William had no money coming in and now he couldn’t work at all. He wanted answers right away. If you are injured at work and terminated from your […]

Filed Under: Workers' Compensation Tagged With: Employment Rights, fired, workers' comp

May 19, 2013 By Valerie Johnson Leave a Comment

Greensboro man who left work to serve in reserves can’t sue to keep his job under USERRA

A man who left his city job to serve his country is not entitled to sue under the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA), according to a ruling by the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Oakley Dean Baldwin, a municipal waste manager who served as a chief warrant officer […]

Filed Under: Cases in the News Tagged With: Employment Rights, Fourth Circuit, USERRA, Veterans' Rights

January 17, 2011 By Valerie Johnson

NC Court of Appeals rejects workers’ compensation settlement agreement

In Kee v. Caromont Health, Inc., the North Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the Industrial Commission’s rejection of a compromise settlement agreement. The agreement originally reached by the parties involved the defendants paying plaintiff $20,000, the plaintiff resigning from her employment, and the plaintiff releasing all of her employment rights. After plaintiff refused to sign the […]

Filed Under: Workers' Compensation Tagged With: Case Commentary, Employment Rights, Industrial Commission, NC Court of Appeals, Settlements

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