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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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Unconscionable employment terms are unenforceable

One of my earliest entries discussed generally how the law labels grossly unfair contract terms as uinconscionable and prohibits enforcing them....
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