Legal glossary category
Employment Law
Browse 5 glossary entries in the Employment Law category, with short plain-English descriptions and direct links to the full term pages.
discrimination
Discrimination occurs when one party treats another party unfairly due to a protected trait.
Open term →employ
When your school gives you a hall pass to work in the library, it's like employment - you have permission to be there with specific rules and expec...
Open term →employee
An employee is like a student given specific instructions by a teacher on how to complete an assignment, with expectations of when it will be done...
Open term →employee benefit
Employee benefits are like the school cafeteria offering free lunches to all students - they're provided by the institution and expected by those r...
Open term →employee benefit plan
Like a school promising free lunch to students who maintain good attendance, an employer promises future benefits in exchange for current work.
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