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Companies Don't Grasp Legal Risks Of E-Mail, IM

"Most companies remain unprepared to deal with legal risks associated with employee e-mail and instant messaging, even though 1 in 5 companies has had employees' electronic messages subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation, a recent study released Tuesday showed."

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Your Email Up for Grabs?

"A federal appeals court recently made a ruling that allows just about anyone to read your email at any time, for any reason, without fear of lawsuit or prosecution."

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Wal-Mart And Sex Discrimination By The Numbers

" A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday granted class-action status to a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest employer. The case, which now covers as many as 1.6 million current and former female Wal-Mart employees, can be decided en masse because it is based on a statistical analysis that shows Wal-Mart paid female workers less and gave them fewer promotions than men."

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Wal-Mart faces huge rights suit

"A sexual-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores has been certified as a class action representing more than 1.6 million current and former employees, making it the largest civil rights case ever. The landmark ruling, released Tuesday by federal Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco, means a June 2001 lawsuit by six current and former Wal-Mart employees in California will be broadened to cover women who worked at Wal-Mart's stores nationwide since Dec. 26, 1998 - a population as large as Philadelphia."

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Is It Against the Law To Be A Jerk?

"Employers who fail to discipline aggressively and weed out (or at least train and reform) the boor, the bully, the power-monger, and even the person who simply lacks basic interpersonal skills may find themselves vulnerable to expensive and difficult employment lawsuits as disgruntled employees ascribe some unlawful motivation to the abusive conduct. And, of course, eliminating such negative forces from the workplace also yields numerous other benefits in the way of productivity and morale."

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Age-Bias Suit Wins: Few And Far Between

"According to Jury Verdict Research, a Horsham, Pa., unit of LRP Publications Inc. that collects data on lawsuit and settlement outcomes across the country. From 1996 to 2002, the median compensatory award for those who won age-discrimination cases was $266,852. However, the likelihood that a plaintiff bringing an age-discrimination lawsuit would win is 62%, according to the same study."

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Some Companies Play Hardball With Employee Lawsuits

Be ready for employers to dig up dirt on you.

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Take This Job And Shove It -- Into Court

"Lawsuits for unlawful firings not easy to win even for public workers."

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Should You Sue the Company?

"Question: I think I have a good discrimination lawsuit against my company. But I once saw a co-worker sue and lose everything — his job, home and marriage. Is there any way to tell when it's worth the risk?"

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Monitoring Employees' Online Communications

"Many employers monitor their employees' use of e-mail and Internet access in the workplace. However, both federal and state law limit an employer's ability to engage in such monitoring activity. Accordingly, employers should be familiar with the law in this area and should implement policies and practices that minimize the risk of lawsuits or enforcement actions."

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Sue Your Employer?

"'Not so fast,' I say to many of my clients whose first reaction to an employment dispute is to file a lawsuit. Many disgruntled employees and other people who have been wronged as well simply do not understand the consequences of litigation and reasonable alternatives to it."

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Discrimination: Do You Have a Case?

"Everyone knows that discrimination is against the law. But which law? Not all laws fill an exclusive niche. Rather, laws sometimes overlap, conflict or complement each other. How do you choose? Here are answers to some commonly asked questions which can help you determine the feasibility of proceeding with a discrimination lawsuit."

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