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EMPLOYMENT LAW issues in this database are pervasive and touch on additional database categories. Some of the additional categories are listed here in “all caps” and boldface.  The specific issues described below are included in both the “Employment Law” category and any other category indicated. These entries may help in choosing the most relevant database categories and keywords for searches in these areas of the law:

Workers’ Compensation (benefits for workers injured on the job, employee vs independent contractor, special employees, exclusive remedy, etc., WORKERS’ COMPENSATION);

Unemployment Insurance (UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE);

Retirement and Social Security Law (injured police officers and firefighters, etc. RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW);

Municipal Law (collective bargaining agreements, discipline, eliminating positions, benefits, hiring, firing, defense of employees, indemnification of employees, retirement benefits, General Municipal Law 205-a, civil rights violations by police, etc., MUNICIPAL LAW, CIVIL RIGHTS LAW);

Labor Law-Construction Law (workers injured in construction accidents, etc., LABOR LAW-CONSTRUCTION LAW);

Labor Law (prevailing wage, whistleblower, apprenticeship training, wrongful termination, Labor Law 27-a, etc., LABOR LAW);

Education-School Law (hiring and firing teachers, discipline, pay, benefits, negligent hiring, retention, training and supervision, injury by or to school employees, contracting with outside agencies, etc., EDUCATION-SCHOOL LAW);

Releases (employers cannot require employees to sign releases, etc., CONTRACT LAW);

Volunteer Agreements (release prohibition applies to volunteers as well as employees, etc., CONTRACT LAW);

Assault (liability of employer for assault by an employee, scope of employment, etc., NEGLIGENCE);

Scope of Employment (liability of employer, etc., NEGLIGENCE);

Caps on Executive Compensation (Department of Health, etc., ADMINISTRATIVE LAW);

Negligent Hiring, Retention, Training and Supervision (NEGLIGENCE);

Contract Law (employment contracts, etc., CONTRACT LAW);

Arbitration (employee issues, ARBITRATION);

Discrimination (Human Rights Law, etc., HUMAN RIGHTS LAW);

NYS Human Rights Law (discrimination, etc., HUMAN RIGHTS LAW);

NYC Human Rights Law (HUMAN RIGHTS LAW);

Pensions (CONTRACT LAW);

Covenant Not to Compete (CONTRACT LAW);

Restrictive Covenants (CONTRACT LAW);

Vicarious liability (employer liability for acts of employees, etc., NEGLIGENCE);

Tortious Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage (TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH PROSPECTIVE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE; TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH PROSPECTIVE BUSINESS RELATIONS; TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH CONTRACT);

Trade Secrets (TRADE SECRETS);

Respondeat Superior;

Unfair Competition (UNFAIR COMPETITION);

Retaliation Claims (HUMAN RIGHTS LAW);

Class Actions (by employees, etc., CIVIL PROCEDURE);

Unions (collective bargaining, etc., CONTRACTS);

National Labor Relations Act;

Administrative Law (employment issues, etc., ADMINISTRATIVE LAW).