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Matthew Nelson’s eclectic background reflects his personality. He studied business principles as a undergraduate, was a computer instructor before law school, and has been a professional legal writer since 1997. He enjoys the educational aspects of helping average joes and janes understand complex legal principles.

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Overview of workers' compensation

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As I mentioned last week, this week is the last one that I am writing this column. Before closing up shop, I wanted to offer some information about...
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Part II of Lorber interview regarding new pay discrimination bill

Last week, I announced that the U.S. House of Representatives had passed the Ledbetter Act, which greatly expands the rights of an employee regarding...
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Top-ranked employment attorney offers thoughts on pay-discrimination lawsuit legislation

My entry on Tuesday that mentioned the new bill, which likely has received a favorable vote in the U.S. Senate by now, that is known as Ledbetter Act...
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U.S. House of Representatives passes pro-labor bills

Today's inauguration of Barack Obama has prompted the U.S. House of Representatives to pass two bills that expand workers' rights regarding equal pay...
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Defenses to employment-based discrimination lawsuits

The facts that I hesitated to write this entry so close to Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of Barack Obama and that I felt a need to say...
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Workplace discrimination

Most employers know that not hiring someone based on the race or nationality of that person or any other characteristic that is protected legally...
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More information on hiring illegal immigrants and connection with Madoff scandal

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The comments that readers added to my entry yesterday regarding the requirement that businesses pay even illegal immigrants the minimum wage and...
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Illegal immigrants entitled to minimum wage

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After writing business law predictions for 2009 on Friday, I saw that a front-page story in last Monday's The Boston Globe stated that a man who was...
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Employment law predictions for 2009

I predict that factors that include American consumers realizing that they can live comfortably without as much "stuff" and eating out as we...
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Elf-help calling workers 'independent contractors' is not a get out of jail free card

Companies from Federal Express and United Parcel Service to the corner gift shop hire extra people to help out during the holiday season, and most of...
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