Employment Law

For someone with a mental health disorder, finding a way to cope on the job can be challenging. Unlike a physical disability, which is often easily observable and obvious to employers and coworkers, a disabling mental condition is much more difficult to recognize. Employers and coworkers may work with someone …

Many jobs earn not just a wage but also other forms of earnings. Some sales jobs and other types of employment, for example, can earn workers commissions, or an amount of money based on performance. A commission is usually a percentage amount of sales and is paid at regular intervals, …

Sifting through company rules on overtime compensation is a sticky situation in which many field service technicians find themselves stuck.

In an industry where hands-on, on-call services are the expectation — not the exception — it comes as little surprise these individuals rarely operate on a neat nine-to-five. What’s more, …

If you’ve just been offered a new job, you might be wondering how to start your new career with the best employment contract. Negotiation of your job contract not only sets the tone for your professional relationship with your employer, but it also determines your career trajectory.

• What is negotiable?

When you get a new job, you may be asked to sign an employment contract. No matter how eager you are to start your new job, it’s important to carefully read over the contract and consider whether the contract reflects your best interests. PA employment contract laws provide you …