Employment Practices Liability
Employment Practices Liability (literally translated as responsibility and liability for the handling of employment relationships ) is an area of US labor law that deals with legal violations in employment relationships under the responsibility of the employer, particularly with regard to compensation law.
Scope of the field of law
This area includes employee claims for unlawful or wrongful dismissal, sexual harassment, discrimination, invasion of privacy, violation of civil liberties (deprivation of liberty), violations of the employment contract, psychological abuse (bossing / mobbing / psychoterrorism etc.) and violations of the legal system in the Working hours and wages.
Legal bases
In general, this area of law deals with laws and protective regulations from the following US legal standards:
- Section VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to protect people [literally: Americans] with disabilities, 1990
- Civil Rights Act of 1991 ,
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act , abbreviated ADEA ( Age Discrimination Act )
- Family and Medical Leave Act , FMLA for short (Law on leave from work for family and health reasons)
The US Equal Opportunity Employment Commission , or EEOC for short, is responsible for applying and enforcing these legal norms .
Different legislation
Competing federal and state laws are of concern to American law about employer obligations. The legal norms of the states also differ from one another. For example, California is considered a worker-friendly state in terms of employer liability.
Insurability
With regard to insurability , the type of contract of insurance for employers against the risks from this area of law under the designation employment practices liability insurance (EPL) is increasingly establishing itself on the American insurance market , which comes into play in labor law disputes with employees from this area of law. With the expansion of legal norms on privacy on the one hand and the electronic storage of employee data on the other, disputes about data protection have come to the fore. This is not necessarily covered by an EPL policy, but the American insurance industry has responded with products for data protection liability insurance and network security insurance.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/index.htm
- ↑ EPL Insurers Still Avoid Wage - & - Hour Coverage Grants For Large Employers ( Memento of the original dated June 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
