Legal Information: Your Work
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Your Business
- Consider legal aspects when starting a new business
- Determining the right type of organization for your business
- Employee contracts are usually verbal agreements
- Getting a trademark for your business product or service
- Inventors should protect their inventions
- Legal considerations when starting a new business
- New Illinois workplace legislation impacts business owners
- Steps to obtaining a business trademark
Your Workplace
- Age discrimination in the workplace
- Breaks, meals, sick days, vacation not required by law
- Employee contracts are usually verbal agreements
- Employees have rights on the job
- Federal law protects pay for workers
- Getting the axe
- Illinois law makes discrimination against gays unlawful
- Job interviews and the law
- Personal paper shredders anticipated to become more common
- Sexual harassment in the workplace is unlawful
- Workplace laws protect those over age 40
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