BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Adverse Action
- the action of refusing someone credit
Additional Resources
- Negative references can be 'adverse action'
- Hillig v. Rumsfeld, 10th Cir., No. 02-1102, August 27, 2004. In building a case of retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employee must show that he or she suffered an "adverse employment action." Recently, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Creating and Implementing an Environmental Action Plan
- Increasingly, individuals are making a concerted effort to change their lifestyles to decrease their "carbon footprint," and the pressure on industry to follow suit has never been greater. Whatever industry you are in, your customers and other key stakeholders will want to know what you are doing to meet your...
- Articles 2007-11-14
- Avoiding Liability For Sexual Harassment
- An employer can be financially responsible for the sexual harassment of employees by supervisors. This article suggests employers to take a look at their current sexual harassment policy statement to see if it fits the new legal landscape and because it is a beginning point to their defense strategy. This...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- COBRA: Adverse Selection in Action
- Donald Marron submits: The November 2 Forbes suggests that health insurance under COBRA provides a clear example of adverse selection in action. COBRA is the law that allows workers who leave a job either voluntarily or not to continue participating in the health insurance they were getting from their employer....
- External links 2009-10-26
- Are Victims Of Harassment Immune To Adverse Employment Actions?
- An employee who was the subject of a workplace prank that was sexual in nature could not show that a subsequent adverse employment action—a poor performance review that resulted in denial of an expected raise—was in retaliation for her complaint about the harassing episode. That was the decision of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Are Victims Of Harassment Immune To Adverse Employment Actions?
- An employee who was the subject of a workplace prank that was sexual in nature could not show that a subsequent adverse employment action—a poor performance review that resulted in denial of an expected raise—was in retaliation for her complaint about the harassing episode. That was the decision of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Oral Admonishment
- A disciplinary discussion between a management official who has authority to take disciplinary action and his/her employee in which the employee is informed that he/she has been disciplined by receipt of an oral admonishment. It is a disciplinary action which is not an adverse action. It is informal and the...
- White papers 1998-11-18
- Guidant Initiates Worldwide Physician Communications Regarding Important Safety Information and Corrective Action about Certain Pacemakers
- INDIANAPOLIS -- Guidant Corporation (NYSE:GDT) said today it is voluntarily advising physicians about important safety information regarding certain devices. Guidant apprised FDA of this action, and FDA may classify this action as a recall. This communication advises physicians and their patients of safety information and is intended to limit adverse...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Bank Board approves Southern Pakistan water management Action Plan; World Bank discusses Inspection Panel investigation into Indus Basin drainage projects.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 November 2006-WORLD BANK: Bank Board approves Southern Pakistan water management Action Plan; World Bank discusses Inspection Panel investigation into Indus Basin drainage projectsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01112006 WASHINGTON, DC - Improving the livelihoods of thousands of poor families...
- Research articles 2006-11-02
- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DEMANDS ACTION ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS.
- The European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, chaired by Caroline Jackson (EPP-ED, United Kingdom) has called for immediate action from the EU on the issue of endocrine disruptors, chemicals suspected of having a serious adverse effect on the hormonal systems of...
- Research articles 2000-07-18
- Legislative wrap-up: 1990 congressional action list; activity in the past year and in the next 12 months will focus on international trade, consumer product safety and disposability and solid waste
- Legislative Wrap-Up: 1990 Congressional Action Listactivity in the past year and in the next 12 months will focus on international trade, consumer product safety and disposability and solid waste To best represent the legislative and regulatory interests of its member companies and to help assure that its members stay abreast...
- Research articles 1990-01-01
- Shalov Stone & Bonner LLP Files Class Action against Workstream, Inc
- NEW YORK -- Shalov Stone & Bonner LLP filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of investors in Workstream, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTM), common stock between January 14, 2005, and April 14, 2005. The lawsuit is pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against...
- Research articles 2005-08-10
- CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST U.S. BANK OF CALIFORNIA EXPECTED TO AFFECT THOUSANDS OF CALIFORNIA EMPLOYEES
- The law firm of Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye, LLP filed a class action lawsuit against U.S. Bank of California for charging employees of business payroll accountholders a $10 fee to cash their paychecks. Many of these employees are lower-paid workers who do not hold personal checking accounts and rely on...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- Change to Lower Grade
- A change to lower grade is the noncompetitive movement of an employee to another position for which he/she qualifies at a lower grade than currently held. This is not considered an adverse action if it is voluntarily requested by the employee but otherwise it may also happen due to poor...
- White papers 1998-11-18
- "Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act": U.S. Software Developers May Be Eligible for Tax Benefits for Foreign Income
- U.S. software development companies that sell their software products abroad may wish to consider whether recently enacted tax legislation will produce a tax benefit for them for income from such sales. For some taxpayers, the new regime may provide tax advantages over the former foreign sales corporation ("FSC") provisions that...
- White papers 2003-05-06
- Patterns: The Strategist's Foundation For Action
- The article states that strategists recognize the constraints, the insights, and the power to leverage some understanding of the future that patterns provide. In almost every imaginable situation, field of learning, area of discipline, ritual, crisis, news story, one names it, looking for and finding common features from previous experience,...
- White papers 2002-06-17
- Does a Helping Hand Put Others At Risk?: Affirmative Action, Police Departments, and Crime
- Will increasing the number of minority and women police officers make law enforcement more effective by drawing on abilities that have gone untapped and creating better contact with communities and victims? Or will standards have to be lowered too far before large numbers of minorities and women can be hired?...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Fitch: Health Net's 'BB+' Rating Unaffected by Adverse Jury Verdict
- CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings does not expect to take rating action on Health Net, Inc.'s 'BB+' long-term issuer rating directly related to the announcement Friday morning that a Louisiana state court jury has awarded plaintiffs $117 million in a suit arising from Health Net's sale of its Texas health plan...
- Research articles 2005-07-06
- Californian With Recalled Heart Lead Files Class Action Lawsuit to Hold Medtronic Responsible for Cost of Medical Care
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Class counsel announced that Rashid Hunter of Fremont, California, filed a class lawsuit against Medtronic Inc., on behalf of all Californians implanted with Sprint Fidelis leads, the wiring that connects a defibrillator to the heart. Due to reports of adverse events and at least five patient deaths...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- Florida Investigates Blue Cross for Alleged Adverse Action against Doctor.
- By Glenn Singer, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Glenn Singer, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Research articles 2001-07-24
