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Your employer can read your work email, and in most of the country it doesn’t need to tell you first. The account belongs to…

Whether you’re an employee or independent contractor doesn’t depend on what the contract calls you, what the company calls you, or whether you get…

To file an EEOC complaint, which the agency calls a charge of discrimination, you have 180 days from the discriminatory act. That stretches to…

Whether non-competes are enforceable depends almost entirely on which state you’re in, because the federal attempt to ban them is dead. The Federal Trade…

Whether salaried employees get overtime has nothing to do with the word “salaried” and everything to do with two tests under the Fair Labor…

Before you sign a severance agreement, understand what it actually is. It’s a contract in which your employer pays you money in exchange for…

When an employer won’t give you your last paycheck, the leverage you have depends on your state, because federal law sets no deadline for…

Getting fired after complaining to HR is not automatically retaliation, but the timing alone makes a claim worth taking seriously. Federal law bans retaliation…