LINKS

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Employee Rights info – private sources

Employee Rights info – key Government sources

Research laws and cases – Federal, Missouri and St. Louis

Management – Human Resources

Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers

Missouri Legal Links, not employment law

Job Seeker Links

Courts, Rules, and the Bar Association

Miscellaneous links

Employee Rights – Private Sources

• WorkPlaceFairness.org – Affiliated with the National Employee Rights Institute (NERI), this site has basic info about many employment law topics of broad interest.
• Cornell University Employment Law pages – The Legal Information Institute at Cornell has a large collection of free job law information, both Federal and State, with links to the text of most of the important laws.
• LLRX.com Employment Law links – Lots of good employment law links to free informative resources.
• Employment Law Info Net – Fairly comprehensive job law news and info site, lots of links.
• LaborNet – LaborNet is a primary gateway to the Web’s labor union resources.
• Employment Law Links from Missouri Bar – Collection of Employment Law links from the Missouri Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Committee. Primarily lists key government resources.
• Will Yancey’s employment law links – An extensive but nicely organized set of employment law and benefits links. Check it out.
• Meites, Mulder Law Firm – Chicago – See this firm’s ongoing summary of important employment law developments and case law.

Employee Rights – Key Government Sources

• Missouri Human Rights Comm. – The Missouri Commission on Human Rights site provides general info about the discrimination complaint process under Missouri’s anti-discrimination laws.
• Missouri Department Labor Industrial Relations – The Missouri Dept of Labor and Industrial Relations site talks about unemployment benefits, wage disputes, service letters, and other job law topics, but I’ve noticed that some of their info about wrongful termination is somewhat misleading.
• Missouri Department of Labor Industrial Relations Frequently Asked Questions page. Answers questions about Missouri wages and workplace standards, and much more.
• Missouri Division of Employment Security (DES) – Missouri DES handles unemployment benefits.
• EEOC-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – The EEOC website has Quick Start Guides for employers and employees, the EEOC compliance manual, comprehensive FAQs, rights of Federal Employees, and much more.
• US Dept of Labor (DOL) – U.S. Dept of Labor has a wealth of info on many employment-related issues.
• FMLA pages at DOL – The US Dept of Labor provides detailed info about FMLA. Look around on the DOL site for similarly detailed info about the Fair Labor Standards Act governing minimum wage and overtime.
• National Labor Relations Board – The National Labor Relations Board supervises The National Labor Relations Act. Lots of info and even decisions of the Board.
• Federal Merit System Protection Board – The Merit System Protection Board tries to explain the merit system complaint process.
• Federal EEO complaint procedure – from the EEOC – The EEOC has lots of info explaining the rights of Federal workers who have been discriminated against.
• Federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – The Federal OPM supervises the personnel practices pertaining to Federal Employees, and provides much detailed information about the personnel laws and regulations.

Find laws and cases

• Missouri Statutes – The Missouri government site provides an easy to use search engine and nice table of contents for Missouri’s statutes.
• MO Code State Regulations – Code of State Regulations from the Missouri Secretary of State site. These regs work hand in hand with state laws.
• St. Louis City Laws – The St. Louis Public Library hosts the laws of the City of St. Louis.
• USA Laws at Cornell Univ. – The Legal Information Institute at Cornell provides a search engine and other means of finding the text of Federal laws.
• USA Laws at US House – US House of Reps web site will let you search and download USA laws easily.
• USA Code Federal Regs – Code of Federal Regulations versions going back several years at G.P.O. These regs work hand in hand with the Federal Laws.
• All State laws at Cornell – The Legal Information Institute at Cornell provides any easy way of viewing the laws of all the states.] – check out other states and see how MO compares.
• LexisOne.com – Free case law research. Lexis is usually a pay service, but it has a ‘Lite’ free version for basic case law research covering cases issued in the last few years.

Management – Human Resources

• ELaws Interactive Guide for business – which laws apply?
• Internet Human Resources links at Cornell University
• Washburn Law Center employment law links
• Independent Contractor guidelines from IRS – Pub 1779 (PDF file)
• BusinessWeek employment law interactive book for Human Resources reps
• EEONews.com
• AHI’s employment law resource center
• 13 Tools for Resolving Conflict in the Workplace, with Customers and in Life
• EEOC-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – The EEOC website has Quick Start Guides for employers and employees, the EEOC compliance manual, comprehensive FAQs, rights of Federal Employees, and much more.
• Phil’s Tips for Human Resources and Management of small businesses See Phil’s article for businesses for practical tips on reducing overall employment defense costs and resolving employment disputes. Tips for Human Resources and small business in Missouri

Plaintiff Employment Lawyers

• Phil Willoughby – I am your host today. I am a Plaintiff’s Lawyer and webmaster of the Timslaw.com Missouri Employment Law Info Site. That’s where you are right now. I am primarily a Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyer practicing primarily in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri areas. See my bio here: About Missouri Plaintiff Employment Lawyer Phil Willoughby.
• For an introduction to the concept of Plaintiff Employment Lawyer, see my article What a Plaintiff Employment Lawyer is and how to find one.
• Links to other Missouri Employment Lawyers – See my page where I have begun to collect links to other Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers, mostly focused on Missouri – Phil’s Links to Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers.
• Links to Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers Nationwide #1 – Visit the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and click the links to see a state-by-state list of some employment lawyers, who have choosen to be listed.
• Links to Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers Nationwide #2 – State by State local NELA affilate organizations, with contacts in those states. Maybe the contact person will refer your inquiry to local NELA members for you.
• Links to Plaintiff’s Employment Lawyers Nationwide #3 – Visit the long-time well-regarded employment lawyer list (by state) of Ronald Schwartz, from Chicago at WorkPlaceLawyer.com. Mr. Schwartz started putting up his employment lawyer list years ago. He also has a pretty good employment law info site. Some of his info may be inapplicable to the Eighth Federal Circuit, where we are here in St. Louis, but his site contains some interesting general articles on important employment law topics. His articles will raise the awareness of his visitors, and that’s the most important consideration, even if some of the details are inapplicable.

Missouri Legal Links

• Missouri Bar Association. For an added bonus, click around the MOBAR website, the section for the Public. You can read articles on many areas of law
• Bar Association of Metro St. Louis (BAMSL), just like MOBAR, has a lot of public information.
• Brown and Crouppen in St. Louis – Personal injury, bankruptcy, Social Security Disability and more. No one does more of these types of cases than Brown and Crouppen.
• Consumer Law Advocates in St. Louis – A consumer law firm in Chesterfield, if you feel cheated in a consumer matter. They tell you their standard fee terms right out on their website.
• Estate Planning and Elder Law – Purcell and Associates in St. Louis – If you’ve been wondering whether you might benefit from Estate Planning, or you have Elder Law issues, here’s a link to one of the best-known local firms to handle your problem and answer your questions. Very nice website as well.
• Peggy Hedrick, Springfield Missouri general practitioner – Attorney Hedrick does probate, family law, and debt collection, among other areas of law. She also maintains her own site. It’s a nice homey site with a lot of personality: “Marriage is made in Heaven, but so are thunder and lightning!!!” she says.
• Scott Law Firm, General Civil Practice in Columbia Missouri – Attorney Steve Scott has a very informative website on many Missouri legal subjects, such as Personal Injury, Estate Planning, Family Law, Real Estate, Business Law and other subjects. The site contains a lot of info, and is well designed and easy to navigate. I told Mr. Scott I may be stealing some design ideas from his site when I do the next overhaul.
• Schultz Legal Group – personal injury – St. Louis – The site has some useful information about important points to keep in mind, depending on the the kind of personal injury or accident claim you may have.

Job Seeker Links

• St. Louis City Government site – lots of links to employment resources – It’s a pleasant surprise that the City of St. Louis has a really nice job info site – lots of links and info.
• Missouri State Employment Info for applicants – Info about jobs available with the State.
• Federal Department of Labor’s resources for the unemployed – Comprehensive site, loads of info. Career outlooks, statistics, help in starting a business, special info for those with disabilities.
• America’s Job Bank – Started by the Federal Government, it’s a huge job matching portal, with loads of info.
• USAJOBS main page from Federal OPM – Federal Office of Personnel Management’s employment opportunity site.
• MERS – Metropolitan Employment Rehabilitation Service, with GoodWill – MERS has offices in St. Louis and the surrounding area. MERS provides training and job re-introduction services for those who have some potential but need a lot of help. MERS is a great place for people to contact who have been out of the job market for a while and lack marketable skills. MERS can’t help everyone, of course. But they seem to do great work for those they can help. MERS merged with GoodWill.
• Here’s a link to the Missouri Department of Revenue Driver’s Info page where you can see the Commercial Driver’s License Manual.

Court and Bar info

• Missouri State Courts Home – The gateway to Missouri’s court system on the web. Circuit-by-circuit links.
• Federal Eastern District Court of Missouri – St. Louis Lawyers know this court as EDMO. The site has basic info that the public and lawyers find useful, including each judge’s preferred court procedures.
• 8th Circuit Court of Appeals – The 8th Circuit is a Federal Court of Appeals that sits in St. Louis and covers Missouri, among other states. You can search and view recent decision of the 8th Circuit at the site.
• Missouri Bar Association – The Missouri Bar site has lots of information for the general public as well as for lawyers.
• Bar Association of Metro St. Louis (BAMSL) – The BAMSL site has lots of content and general info for the lay public about law and the legal system.

Miscellaneous links

• FirstGov.gov – The major gateway portal to US Government resources on the web. “The US Government’s Official Web Portal”.
• Working Wounded – “Adding insight to injury” – An irreverent website about the workplace. Advice and complaint boards, etc. Worth a look. Don’t follow the info about Quitting a Job without first reading my own Article about quitting your job.
• www.MissouriHumanRights.com – The focal point for opposition to the anti-worker and anti-family Republican labor law agenda Those of us active in the local NELA chapter are putting together a website to oppose the Republican agenda as it relates to workers and human rights. The site is in its infancy; be patient.
• Tim has a political blog, imagine that! The Radical Moderate – Tim’s social and political issues blog. I used it as a training ground for learning the WordPress software that drives TimsLaw.com. I had an elcheapo BlogSpot blog for a while. The old Blog is still up as an artifact from the past: The old Blogspot Radical Moderate blog site.
• Here’s something that I had started long ago, and then didn’t keep up on: Tim’s non-legal stuff page – Contains a few more links to things that some might find interesting. Maybe one day that page will be useful again.
• Cleveland High School Alumni Homepage – I attended Grover Cleveland High School in St. Louis Missouri. Here’s the Alumni Association’s website. I helped them set up the site.
• Stacy Rucker – model, singer, actress, cousin – If the name Stacy Rucker is familiar to you, it’s probably from her appearances on the Howard Stern radio and TV shows. Stacy is my cousin. She wrote the song known as “Give me more Howard Stern”, which Stern loves.
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