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2011: Year-End Review, Part I

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2013: The Top 10 List (Part I)

2013: The Top 10 List (Part II)

28 days later? Passage of time justifies recertification of intermittent FMLA leave

37,000 Target Employees Sign Petition To Protest Working Long Hours On Thanksgiving

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50 Years Ago, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes the House of Representatives

50 Years Ago, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes the House of Representatives

50 Years Later: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title VII

5th Circuit Allows Individual Employees to Settle FLSA Overtime Claims Without Court or DOL Approval in Limited Union Context

5th Time the Charm? The Eleventh Circuit Reverses Itself and Allows To Stand (Partially) A 2d Jury's Verdict for Plaintiff On The Court's 5th Pass At the Case

6th Circuit applies False Claim Act’s anti-retaliation protections to ex-employees

6th Circuit Determines Volunteers May Be Considered Employees In Bryson v. Middlefield Volunteer Fire Dep’t Inc.

6th Circuit gives employers relief on the evidence employees must present to prove off-the-clock work

6th Circuit holds that an insurer’s “special investigators” are exempt administrative employees

6th Circuit re-defines walking time as working time under the FLSA

6th Circuit volunteers gift to volunteer employees in coverage under Title VII

7th Circuit concludes employer should have advised injured employee of FMLA rights even after employee went AWOL

7th Circuit decides the issue of religious rights vs. trans rights … and trans rights won

7th Circuit reversal of its own precedent on ADA requirement for reassignment of disabled employees

9th Circuit Rules that Class Actions are "Concerted Action"; Employees Cannot be Compelled to Waive Them

A “searing time” for whistleblower rights — and a pledge to protect them

A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come? -- Government Mandated Paid Sick Leave Under The Healthy Families Act

A Brief Look at Today’s Workers Rights and Protections

A Global Survey on the Study of International Law (Part II)

A Look at Different Types of New York Employees

A Post-Brinker Victory for Employees: Bradley v. Networkers International, LLC

A Retaliation Case At the Illinois Department of Human Rights

A Stitch in Time Saves Sponsored Employees Being Refused Entry to the UK

A Tale of Three States, Part 2: Racial Disparities

A Tale of Three States, Part 3: Harsh Hoosiers

A Tale of Three States, Part 4: The Racial Threat Hypothesis

A Tale of Three States, Part 5: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing in Wisconsin

A Tale of Three States, Part 6: Happy Days

A Tale of Three States, Part One

A Trial At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

A View of ADR as Part of the Process Instead of an Alternative to the Process

ABA Directory for Disability Rights

ACA Will Cause Loss of Two Million Full-Time Jobs, According to CBO Report

ADA claims hit all time high

ADA May Protect Trainees, Not Just Employees

ADA PROTECTS SICK CA EMPLOYEES

ADA’s associational disability provision does not shield poor-performing employees from termination

ADHD and Keeping Time in Practice

Advancement Rights Percolate Beneath Delaware Trade Secrets Lawsuits

Advertising that "Tip is Included" May Require Payment to Employees -- O'Conner v. Uber Technologies

Advocating for Your Rights Even in Your First Interview

After Salas (Part II)

Age Discrimination And The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Agencies Issue Proposed Rule Implementing Federal Service Contractor Employees' Right of First Refusal

Agreement Shortening Time Period to File Wage Claim Held Unenforceable

ALABAMA APPELLATE COURT ADDRESSES AADEA STATUTE FOR ONLY SECOND TIME

Alabama's New Immigration Law, Part III

Albany Law Review: "Protecting Workers’ Rights in a Post-Wisconsin World: Strategies for Organizing and Action in an Era of Diminished Resources and Embattled Unions"

All Top 100 Companies Have Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Policies For First Time

Allowing Clients To Harass Employees May Lead To Lawsuits

Amazon Expects Its Employees to Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines. This Amazon Picker Is Fighting Back.

Amazon makes tiny tweak to ‘time off task’ policy following report on high injury rates

Amazon Says It’s Giving Part-Time Workers PTO—But There May Be a Catch

Amazon’s crackdown on employee climate-change protesters is a teachable moment on employee speech rights

Amazon’s Unlimited Unpaid Time Off Ends May 1, and Workers Say That Could Be Deadly

Amendment to Thwart Airport Security Officers’ Bargaining Rights Defeated in Senate

American Workers Have Lost Control of Their Time. It’s Time To Take It Back.

Americans with Disabilities Act Requires Employers to Transfer Employees Who are Losing their Current Positions Due to Disability to a Vacant Position for which they are Qualified

Amy Coney Barrett could influence workers’ rights, other economic issues if she joins Supreme Court

An Employer’s Bill of Rights

An In-Depth Analysis of the NLRB’s Decision to Permit Employees to Use Employer Email Systems for Union Organizing and Other Non-Work Purposes

An iPhone App that Helps Employees Win Overtime Pay Claims

An iPhone App that Helps Employees Win Overtime Pay Claims

An Ode to Whistleblowers and the Law: Part I

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Another reason not to ban social media on company time (hint … it’s the NLRB)

Another Supreme Court Win for Employees in Retaliation Case

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Appealling An Arbitration Decision - A Success Story Part II

ARB says SOX covers contractor's employees; rejects Lawson

Are Automobile Dealer Employees Covered under the FLSA?

Are Employees Entitled to Pay for Holiday, Sicktime and Vacations?

Are graduate assistants employees or students?

Are Independent Employees the Next Big Thing?

Are Salaried Employees Entitled to Overtime Pay?

Are Salaried Employees Entitled to Overtime?

Are Salaried Employees Entitled to Overtime?

Are Workers Entitled To Pay For Time Spent Waiting To Go Through Security Checkpoints At Work?

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Are You Entitled To Overtime Compensation For Time Spent On Your Blackberry?

Are You Entitled to Time Off Work for Rehab

ARE YOU GETTING PAID FOR THE TIME YOU SPEND PREPARING FOR YOUR JOB?

Are you searching employees’ work computers as part of litigation?

Are your employees recording you?

Are Your Sales Employees Properly Classified as Exempt?

Arizona and Many Other States Begin Legislative Process to Protect Employees Against Discrimination Based on COVID-19 Vaccine Choices (US)

Around the Country, State Employees Rally Against Furloughs, Pay Cuts

Arrest Trends in Milwaukee, 1980-2011 — Part Two

Arrest Trends in Milwaukee, 1980-2011–Part One

Article 78 application for succession rights to apartment denied

As sure as today is Cyber Monday, your employees are shopping from work

At Will Employment Part II

AT&T v. Concepcion - Closing the Courthouse Doors to Employees?

AT&T v. Concepcion - Closing the Courthouse Doors to Employees?

Atlantans vent about Georgia workers' compensation rights

Attorney’s JasonTremblay, Paul Starkman and Jenifer Caracciolo secure significant victory for long-time client

AutoZone Store Managers Found to Be Exempt Executive Employees

“I Don’t Have to Take Any Time for This”

“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment

“Just Cause”: Isn’t It Time For All Workers to Have Some Job Security?

“Retaliation against Whistleblowers at All-Time High”

“We Will Win”: For the First Time in 50 Years, Minneapolis Teachers Are Out on Strike

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Back Wages Due To Thousands Of Pipeline Employees

Back Wages Due To Thousands Of Pipeline Employees

Barry on Toward Universalism: What the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 Can and Can’t Do for Disability Rights

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Best of the Blogs, Part I

Best of the Blogs: Time Waster Edition

Best of: Unstable employees, direct threats, and the ADA

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Best Practices for Handling Unemployment Compensation Claims Part 1: Responding to the Initial UC Claim and Appealing the Initial Determination

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Beware bans on pay discussions among employees

Beware of discrimination risks when rehiring ex-employees

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Big Mistake for Employers to Demand Employees' Facebook Passwords

Bill Seeks to Revise Definition of "Full-Time Employee" Under Affordable Care Act

Bill to Exempt Certain Unionized Employees From Meal Period Rules

Bill Would Add Due Process Rights to Arbitration Process

Bill Would Allow Employees to Automatically Enroll in IRAs

Bill Would Amend FLSA Hours of Service Requirements for Railroad Employees

Bill Would Encourage Short-Time Compensation Programs in Lieu of Layoffs

Bill Would Expand USERRA Rights to Veterans on Service-Related Medical Leave

Bill Would Expand Whistleblower Protections to Non-Federal Employees

Bill Would Give Employees Right to Request Flexible Schedule

Bill Would Grant Public Safety Officers Collective Bargaining Rights

Bill Would Provide Five Paid Sick Days to Employees with H1N1

Bill Would Repeal the NLRB's Employee Rights Notice Posting Rule

Bill Would Require Companies to Report Number of Employees Per State, Country

Bills Would Allow Employers to Contribute to Employees' Health Insurance, Maintain Auto-Enrollment

Bills Would Expand Pregnancy, Nursing Workplace Rights

Bills Would Extend Workplace Protections to LGBT Employees

Bills Would Prohibit Employers From Requesting Access to Employees' Email and Social Networking Sites

Black Immigrants, Part of the New American Story

Blackberry Culture, Overtime Entitlement and Non-Exempt Employees

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Blog #5. Fired in real time: What the fallen need to hear

Blog #9. Fired in Real Time: Getting Advice

BLS Reports Decline in Nonfatal Workplace Injuries and Illnesses Resulting in Time Away from Work

Board Affirms Decision Ordering Reinstatement of Employees Terminated for Facebook Comments

Board Member Becker? 2nd Time Around

Brand New Yacht BÄDEN Capsizes and Sinks First Time in the Water

Break Time for Nursing Mothers

BREAKING NEWS: Biden to announce vaccine mandate for all employers with 100 or more employees

BREAKING NEWS: NLRB delays employee rights posting requirement until April 30

BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court holds that Title VII protects LGBTQ employees 🏳️‍🌈

BREAKING: NLRB postpones posting of notice of employee rights

BREAKING: NLRB publishes final rule on mandatory posting of labor rights

BREAKS FOR BREASTFEEDING PART OF HEALTH CARE REFORM?

Breakthrough Amendment to California Labor Code Eases Regulations on Meal Periods for Unionized Commercial Drivers and Unionized Employees in the Security, Construction and Utilities Industries

Bring on 2012 - A Time for Change

Bringing People To The Illinois Department Of Human Rights Fact-Finding Conference

British Consider Further Restrictions on Unfair-Dismissal Rights

Broadcast Employees Frequently Exempt From Non-Compete Agreements

Broadcast Employees Reach Tentative Agreement with ABC

Bronx Gas Station Owner Gets Jail Time In Overtime Pay Suit

Buckley & Klein Victorious In Reverse Race Discrimination Case. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Determines Employees May Always Bring A Claim for Discrimination Where Circumstantial Evidence Of Discriminatory Intent Exists

Bunny's Letter Intensifies Debate Over Court Access For Federal Employees

CA EMPLOYEES DO NOT HAVE TO PERFORM SEX ACTS TO KEEP THEIR JOBS

CA EMPLOYEES OF ALL COLOR DESERVE EQUAL PAY FOR DOING THE SAME WORK

CA EMPLOYERS NOT ALLOWED TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST MUSLIM EMPLOYEES.

CA Supreme Court Upholds Physician’s Rights Under State Whistleblower Law

CA Supreme Court: LA County Union Entitled to Home Addresses and Phone Numbers of Non-Union Employees

California Announces 2013 Minimum Pay Requirements for Exempt Computer Software, Physician and Surgeon Employees

California Appellate Court Holds Insurance Agents Not Employees Under California Law

California Assemblyman sacrifices his own rights for those of employees

California Court Finds Sales Employees Cannot Meet Administrative Exemption -- Pellegrino v. Robert Half Int'l

California Court of Appeal Confirms Employers May Require Salaried Exempt Employees to Use Vacation/PTO Time for Partial Day Absences in Any Increment

California Court of Appeal Finds Employees Are Exempt Under California's Commissioned Sales Exemption

California Court Of Appeal Holds That Employees Lose Reinstatement Rights If They Fail To Return To Work During The 12-Week Leave Period Protected Under CFRA

California Court of Appeal: Employers Must Reimburse Employees for Cell Phone Use - Even if Plan is Unlimited

California Court of Appeal: Employers Must Simply Make Meal Periods Available To Employees, Not Ensure They Are Taken

California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

CALIFORNIA EMPLOYEES WORKING OFF THE CLOCK DESERVE TO BE PAID FOR THEIR HARD WORK.

California employers must "provide" meal breaks, but need not "ensure" employees take them

California Employers: Remember Voting Time Obligations and Poster

California Enacts New Law Mandating Paid Sick Leave for Employees

California Extends the Reach of Overtime Provisions to Non-Resident Employees

California Governor Brown Signing More New Employment Laws at End of 2014 Session (Part I)

California May Expand Employee Rights

California Minimum Wage Law Applies to State Employees -- Sheppard v. North Orange County Regional Occupational Program

California Senate passes bill to extend whistleblower coverage to university employees

California Supreme Court Applies Longer, Three-Year Statute Of Limitations To All Claims For Waiting Time Penalties, Increasing Costs To Employers

California Supreme Court Denies Review of Wage Statement & Reporting Time Decision

California Supreme Court Holds Employees Do Not Have Private Right of Action to Sue for Tips

California Supreme Court Limits Employer Liability to IC's Employees

California Supreme Court Set To Address Workers’ Meal And Rest Break Rights

California Supreme Court's Ruling that Hidden Video Surveillance Did Not Violate Employees' Privacy Rights Provides Useful Guidance for Conducting Lawful Investigations

California Supreme Court's Ruling that Hidden Video Surveillance Did Not Violate Employees' Privacy Rights Provides Useful Guidance for Conducting Lawful Investigations

California Supreme Court: Waiting Time Penalties are..Penalties!

California Will Recognize Rights of Same-Sex Couples Married Outside California

California's Domestic Worker Bill of Rights Becomes Permanent

California's 2012 Minimum Hourly, Monthly and Yearly Rates for Exempt Computer Software, Physician and Surgeon Employees

California: Civil Rights Enforcement Focus is on Large Cases

Call Center Employees And Overtime Pay

Call Center Employees And Overtime Pay

Call for Papers: Albany Law Review Symposium on Workers' Rights

Call for Submissions: Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal

Can an employee be fired for no reason in Colorado? Part 1

Can an employee be fired for no reason in Colorado? Part 1

Can an employer require that employees be of a specific faith? Believe it or not, it depends.

Can Employers Prohibit Employees From Expressing Their Religious Views in the Workplace?

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2019)

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2020)

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2021)

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2021)

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2022)

Can Employers Require Employees to Remain on Premises? (2024)

Can employers require flu shots for their employees?

Can government employees be fired for something they say? Not legally

Can Human Rights Watch Suspend Employee for Collecting Nazi Stuff?

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”?

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”? (2019)

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”? (2020)

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”? (2021)

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”? (2021)

Can My Boss Fire Me at Any Time for Any Reason? What is “at will”? (2022)

Can my social media use somehow become part of my workers' compensation case?

Can You Win Sexual Orientation Claims At The Illinois Human Rights Commission?

Cases Coming to the Supreme Court: Can Employees Invite Others After an Offer of Judgment?

Caught In a Fixed Game: The Struggle for Consumer and Employee Rights in the Forced Arbitration Process

Caught In a Fixed Game: The Struggle for Consumer and Employee Rights in the Forced Arbitration Process

Charging Union Dues for Politcs may Violate Free Speech Rights of Non-Members -- Knox v. SEIU

Cheating Workers Out Of Rights, Benefits

Check Laws to Learn if You Can Take Time Off to Vote

Chicago Human Rights Commission Cases

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Signs Executive Order Raising Minimum Wage to $13 Per Hour For Employees of City Contractors & Concessionaires

Chicago Office Of Illinois Human Rights Commission

Chicago Retaliation Cases At the Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Chicago Retaliation Cases With the Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Chicago Sexual Orientation Cases Can Be Filed At The Illinois Department of Human Rights

China: Mandatory Hepatitis B Testing Abolished for College Students, Factory Workers and Government Employees

Chiropractor Has Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Filed Against Him By Two Former Employees

Churchill on Enforcing Employment Rights

City Passes Historic Retail Workers Bill Of Rights

Civil rights champion Thomas Perez being nominated for labor secretary

Civil Rights Claims Fall

Civil Rights Division Announces Plan to Target Public Employers

Civil Rights Enforcement Chief: “We Are Open for Business”

Civil rights is not a pizza

Civil Rights Tax Relief Act introduced in House and Senate

Civil War Sesquicentennial, Part One

Civil War Sesquicentennial, Part Two: Gettysburg

Class Certification Of Oracle Employees in Wage-and-Hour Suit

Clearing a path to complain is a key part of any harassment policy

Client Interview With The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Closing Time at Chicago Libraries Hits Women and Minorities Hard

COBRA Health Insurance Subsidies for Recently Terminated Employees

College Athletes Determined to Be Employees By NLRB

Colloquium Time!

Colorado's Marijuana "Legalization" Amendment Task Force OKs Recommendation to Permit Employers to Terminate Employees for Off-Duty Marijuana Use

Colorado's Marijuana "Legalization" Amendment Task Force OKs Recommendation to Permit Employers to Terminate Employees for Off-Duty Marijuana Use

Commission on Civil Rights to Hold Hearing on Age Discrimination

Common Workplace Issues And Employee Rights To Remember

Communicate clearly with your Employees with our Precise Employment Forms

Companies That Care About Workers’ Rights: Apply Now to be Named a 2010 Top Small Company Workplace

Company Not Liable for Time Spent by Unionized Manufacturing Employees Changing Into and Out of Company-Issued Gear

Congress Clears Defense Measure that Includes Provisions Addressing whether TRICARE Healthcare Providers are Subject to OFCCP Requirements, Provides Expanded USERRA Rights to Members of the National Guard

Congress May Lower Taxation of Civil Rights Recoveries

CONGRESS NULLIFIES SUPREME COURT RULING BY EXTENDING TIME TO SUE FOR EQUAL PAY

CONGRESS NULLIFIES SUPREME COURT RULING BY EXTENDING TIME TO SUE FOR EQUAL PAY

CONGRESS NULLIFIES SUPREME COURT RULING BY EXTENDING TIME TO SUE FOR EQUAL PAY

CONGRESS NULLIFIES SUPREME COURT RULING BY EXTENDING TIME TO SUE FOR EQUAL PAY

Congress Passes Major Whistleblower Reforms as Part of Wall Street Reform Bill

Congress to Consider Civil Rights Tax Relief

Connecticut limits investigations and expands a time limit

Constitutional Basis for Enacting Bill Granting Public Safety Employees Bargaining Rights Not Sound, Says CRS Report

Constitutional Rights in Action

Constructive Discharge Case At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Contract Rights Under Assault

Corona and Class Warfare Part II: Stopping a Multi-Dollar CEO Pension Tax Break

Coronavirus Update 1-25-2021: President Biden calls for unemployment benefits to employees who refuse to work because of Covid

Coronavirus Update 1-27-2021: Tread carefully if offering employees financial incentives to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Coronavirus Update 1-31-22: Employees should not be choosing between their jobs and working while ill

Coronavirus Update 10-13-2020: You are doing something very, very wrong if your employees are terrified to come to work

Coronavirus Update 10-26-2021: No, employers, you can’t employees who complains about Covid health and safety issues

Coronavirus Update 10-5-2020: Your employees should never learn about positive test from anyone but you

Coronavirus Update 10-7-2020: Could White House employees file an OSHA complaint?

Coronavirus Update 12-17-2020, part 2: The COVID-19 vaccine and race discrimination

Coronavirus Update 12-9-2020: Maskual harassment, part 2

Coronavirus Update 2-16-2021: Are you monitoring your remote employees?

Coronavirus Update 2-9-2021: Time off for the COVID-19 vaccine

Coronavirus Update 3-19-2021: CDC is now recommending COVID-19 screening tests of asymptomatic employees of certain employers

Coronavirus Update 3-24-2021: Which of your employees should you bring back to work

Coronavirus Update 3-4-2021: Time off for vaccinations

Coronavirus Update 4-12-2021: It’s time to end pandemic PTO hesitancy

Coronavirus update 4-16-2020: FBI warns companies about employees faking coronavirus diagnoses

Coronavirus update 4-20-2020: What a business operating in the time of coronavirus CANNOT look like

Coronavirus Update 4-21-2021, part 2: Does President Biden read my blog?

Coronavirus update 4-23-2020: Your employees walk out in protest over coronavirus-related working conditions. Now what?

Coronavirus Update 4-26-2021: Another reason not to mandate the Covid vaccine for employees

Coronavirus Update 4-27-2020: Bringing your employees back to work when unemployment pays them more than you do

Coronavirus Update 4-28-2020 number 2: Ohio’s reopening plan 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 masks for all employees

Coronavirus Update 4-28-2020: Ohio’s reopening plan includes 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 masks for all employees

Coronavirus Update 4-29-2020 number 2: Ohio flips (again) on mandatory masks for employees

Coronavirus Update 4-8-2020: Employers, if you are requiring your employees to wait in line for a coronavirus fever check, please pay them for waiting

Coronavirus Update 5-13-2020: Workplace virus screening tools aren’t perfect, but they are at least part of a solution

Coronavirus Update 5-22-2020: We really don’t want our employees being “Tisons"

Coronavirus Update 5-5-2020: Ohio encouraging employers to report AWOL employees to ODJFS

Coronavirus Update 5-6-2021: Do your employees have “Covid anxiety syndrome”?

Coronavirus Update 6-1-2021: EEOC says that employers legally can offer incentives to employees to get vaccinated in almost all instances

Coronavirus Update 6-14-2021: It took all of 12 days for 117 employees to learn what it feels like to lose a lawsuit in spectacular fashion

Coronavirus Update 6-2-2021: 117 employees are about to learn what it feels like to lose a lawsuit in spectacular fashion

Coronavirus Update 6-22-2021: Workplace things Covid has not changed—you can still fire dishonest employees

Coronavirus Update 6–18–2020: Errata—employers cannot require antibody tests of employees, says EEOC

Coronavirus Update 6–22–2020: Ohio ends unemployment benefits to employees who refuse to work (with some key exceptions)

Coronavirus Update 6–24–2020: Are employees taking paid leave under the FFCRA?

Coronavirus Update 6–25–2020: Are employees taking paid leave under the FFCRA? — the results

Coronavirus Update 6–3–2020: Do “Lake of the Ozarks” employees sent home from work qualify for paid sick leave under the FFCRA?

Coronavirus Update 6–4–2020: Can you force employees who participate in George Floyd protests to quarantine without pay?

Coronavirus Update 7-14-2020: Should employers be testing employees for COVID-19?

Coronavirus Update 7-31-2020: 41,214 reasons not to fire employees who request FFCRA leave

Coronavirus Update 7–1–2020: THIS is how you protect your employees

Coronavirus Update 7–21–2021: Employers, now is the time to ready your back-to-school plans

Coronavirus Update 8-10-2020: Indians quarantine of pitcher Zach Plesac is a teachable moment in handling irresponsible employees during this pandemic

Coronavirus Update 8-17-2021: Are your work-from-home employees working more one job from home?

Coronavirus Update 8-26-2020: New DOL guidance explains employers’ obligation to track compensable telework time

Coronavirus Update 8–2–2021: Employers, now is the time to mandate Covid vaccines

Coronavirus Update 8–9–2021: CNN fires three employees for lying about vaccine status

Coronavirus Update 9-15-21: Do mandatory vaccination policies have an adverse impact on minority employees?

Coronavirus Update 9-24-2020: Comorbidities, Covid-19, and your employees

Coronavirus Update 9-9-21: Don’t forget about overtime laws when paying employees pandemic-related bonuses

Corporate lawyers represent the company, not its employees

Costa Concordia Raises Issue of Passenger Rights of Recovery

Countrywide, Former Employees Settle Class Action Over Retirement Losses

Court Decides That Unpaid Interns Were Really Employees In Fox Searchlight Case

Court Decides That Unpaid Interns Were Really Employees In Fox Searchlight Case

Court Determines Exotic Dancers Are Employees

Court Finds One Plaintiff Not Owed Reporting Time or Split Shift Pay For Scheduled Meetings and Finds Second Plaintiff Waived Claims - But Employer Denied Award of Fees!

Court of Appeal Makes Christmas Come Early for Employers re Reporting Time and Split Shifts

Court of Appeal on Reporting Time (Redux)

Court of Appeal: "Reasonable Accommodation" Must Be Perfectly Executed Every Time

Court of Appeal: OK to Deduct from Exempt Employees' PTO/Vacation for Partial Day Absences of Any Length

Court of Appeal: On-Call and Sleep Time

Court of Appeal: Employees Who "Retire" Have Quit Under the Labor Code

Court of Appeal: Employer's Lawsuit Against Terminated Employees Beats Anti-SLAPP Motion

Court of Appeal: Lying on Timesheets re Break Time is Misconduct: No Unemployment for You

Court of Appeal: Reporting Time Pay and Discharge

Court of Appeal: Some Wage Claims Tolled; Some Time Barred and More

Court of Appeal: Union Contracts Must Clearly and Unmistakably Waive Rights Under California Vacation Law

Court of Appeal: Union Representing County Employees Entitled to Contact Information of Non-Union Members

Court of appeals decision highlights risk of (mis)classifying employees

Court Recognizes Broad Geographic Reach of New York State and City Human Rights Laws

Court Ruling Major Setback For National Security Employees

Court Upholds Right of Public Employees to Testify

Courts Continue Chipping Away at Employees' Rights

Courts Continue Chipping Away at Employees’ Rights

Courts Make it More Difficult for Employees to Pursue Tip Theft by Employers

Creating alternate avenues for employees to complain key to harassment prevention

Creating alternate avenues for employees to complain key to harassment prevention

Criminalization of Online Harassment May Help Employers in "Cyberbattles" with Disgruntled Employees

Criminalization of Online Harassment May Help Employers in "Cyberbattles" with Disgruntled Employees

Cyberbully Andrew Shirvell, Asst. AG for Michigan, and Pickering Free Speech Rights

DaimlerChrysler Wins on Human Rights Appeal

DaimlerChrysler Wins on Human Rights Appeal

Damages At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Damn You Auto Correct! (train your employees to proofread)

DC Circuit finds federal employees have more protection from discrimination

DC LERA Program: Labor Rights & Global Supply Chains, 12/15/21

DC LERA: Bargaining Rights in the Public Sector

Decision Shines Light on How Not to Investigate Employees Online

Decision Shines Light on How Not to Investigate Employees Online

Decreasing provisional employees in the workforce

Deductions for partial and full day absences of exempt employees

Defeating Liability For Employees' Off-Duty Internet Activity

Defeating Liability For Employees' Off-Duty Internet Activity

Defending Cases At The Illinois Department of Human Rights

Delivery Drivers are Employees, Not Contractors -- Ruiz v. Affinity Logistics, Inc.

Dellinger v. Science Applications International Determines Retaliation Provision Of Fair Labor Standards Act Applies To Current And Former Employees

Dellinger v. Science Applications International Determines Retaliation Provision Of Fair Labor Standards Act Applies To Current And Former Employees

Denying gender-affirming health care to transgender employees is unlawful discrimination

Department Of Labor Considers Inclusion Of Home Care Employees Under The FLSA

Department of Labor Program Connects Employees to Lawyer Referral Service

Department of Labor to Provide Information and Documents from Wage-Hour Investigations to Employees and Plaintiffs' Attorneys

Depositions in Employment Rights Cases

Despite yesterday’s NLRB settlement, employees do not get a free pass on social media posts

Did Amazon Violate Overtime Pay Requirements By Not Paying Warehouse Employees For Required Screenings?

Dill on Restoring Unions in America by Reforming Nonemployee Union Representative Access Rights to Employer Property

Discovery At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Discrimination Filings With the EEOC Hit All-Time High

Discussing a couple of pay deductions for service-industry employees

Do Changes in Benefits for Public Employees Violate the Contracts Clause?

Do Colorado employees get paid for snow days?

Do employees have any privacy rights in personal emails sent from corporate accounts?

Do Employees Really Care If They Have a Bad Boss?

Do not force employees to work during FMLA leave

Do not forget to tell employees how you are calculating FMLA leave

Do Public Safety Employers Have A Greater Right to Punish Employees For Free Speech Than Other Public Employers?

Do Start Ups Need To Pay Their Employees Overtime Compensation?

Do we really need to pump up workplace lactation rights?

DO YOU BLACKBERRY, RESPOND TO EMAILS, OR MAKE PHONE CALLS AFTER WORK? ARE YOU GETTING PAID FOR THIS TIME SPENT WORKING?

Do you know how to calculate the “regular rate of pay” for your employees? (hint: probably not)

Do you know what to do if employees strike?

Do You Know Your Rights Under the FMLA?

Do you know? 12% of employees knowingly violate IT policies

Do you know? Administrative employees vs. the administrative exemption

Do you know? Are your employees getting Unvarnished?

Do you know? H1N1 and employees’ leave rights

Do you know? Handling employees with suspected swine flu

Do you know? Opposing counsel may have access to your employees during litigation

Do you know? OSHA protects employees from retaliation for reporting injuries

Do you know? Overtime for non-exempt commissioned employees

Do you know? Paying overtime to salaried, non-exempt employees

Do you know? What are an employer’s rights when an employee fails to give timely notice of FMLA leave?

Do you understand the rules for paying employees for commuting time?

Do your BYOD employees understand the remote-wipe?

Do your employees know what “loyalty” means?

Do your employees really know what they are signing? Enforcing waivers of judicial rights

DOD Adopts Whistleblower Rule for Contractor Employees

DoD, GSA, and NASA Adopt as Final DOL's Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws Rule

DoD, GSA, and NASA Adopt Final Rule on Notification of Employee Rights Under Federal Labor Laws

Does Dees v. Hydradry Leave Employers High and Dry in FLSA Settlements? (Part I)

Does Dees v. Hydradry Leave Employers High and Dry in FLSA Settlements? (Part II)

Does social media hold the cure for your malingering, hooky playing employees?

Does the ABA Do Good? (Part I)

Does the ABA Do Good? (Part II)

Does the ADA protect employees who travel to areas that potentially expose them to coronavirus?

Does Title VII protect employees whose spouses are pregnant?

DOJ Plans to Expand Civil Rights Division, Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Laws

DOL announced proposed rule to increase salary threshold for white-collar exempt employees

DOL Announces Effective Date of Rule Governing Nondisplacement of Service Contract Employees

DOL Announces Introduction of Smartphone Application to Help Employees Track Work Hours

DOL Interpretation Letter Expands FMLA Rights to Non-Traditional Families

DOL Issues Clarification of FMLA Rights for Same-Sex Spouses

DOL Issues Fact Sheet on Nursing Breaks for Employees

DOL Issues Fact Sheet on Nursing Breaks for Employees

DOL Issues Opinion on Compensability for "Donning and Doffing" Time

DOL Issues Proposed Rule Requiring Federal Contractors to Notify Employees of Their Rights Under Federal Labor Law

DOL Issues Second Administrator Interpretation Over Time Spent Donning and Doffing Protective Equipment

DOL Issues Second Administrator Interpretation Over Time Spent Donning and Doffing Protective Equipment

DOL Issues Updated Guidance Affirming Rights of Same-Sex Spouses Under the FMLA

DOL Launches Smartphone "App" to Track Employee Time and Compute Wages

DOL Launches Smartphone "App" to Track Employee Time and Compute Wages

DOL provides guidance on break time for nursing moms

DOL Seeks Comment on Issues Related to Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Employees

DOL Seeks to Gauge Worker Knowledge of Workplace Wage and Safety Rights

DOL Strikes Out S.F. Giants: 74 Employees Paid $545K Under FLSA

DOL's Clarification of "Son and Daughter" FMLA Definition Broadens Category of Employees Who May Take Leave

Domestic Employees in New York

Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in Illinois

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Approved by California State Assembly

Domestic Workers Finally Get Their Rights

Domestic Workers Rights Bill Moves Forward in California

Don't Forget to Provide Your Employees with the HIPAA-Mandated, Triennial Reminder

Don’t confuse “tips” and “service charges” for hospitality employees

Don’t even ask employees about their problems after a union comes knocking

Don’t file criminal charges against employees who’ve engaged in protected activity

Don’t fire employees on the heels of a cancer diagnosis

Don’t Just Send People Money During a Pandemic—Do It All the Time

DOT Reiterates that Marijuana Use by Safety-Sensitive Transportation Employees Is Not Authorized, Regardless of Recent Passage of State Recreational Marijuana Use Laws

DOT Reiterates that Marijuana Use by Safety-Sensitive Transportation Employees Is Not Authorized, Regardless of Recent Passage of State Recreational Marijuana Use Laws

Dr. Duane Bonds files petition with Supreme Court to expand protections for federal employees

Drunk Employees Not Protected by ADA

Dukes and Duryea: Bad Day at the Supreme Court for Public and Private Employees in US

Dumping Sick Employees

E-Verify Enhancement Provides Email Notification to Employees

E. Jason Tremblay writes article for Inside Counsel on handling employee’s references for terminated employees

Educate Your Employees with an Appropriate Lock out Tag out Poster

EEOC Announces Private Sector Bias Charges Hit All-Time High

EEOC Commissioner targets companies offering employees abortion travel benefits

EEOC Issues Guidance on Potential Application of Title VII and ADA to Employees Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking

EEOC Issues Revised Publications Regarding the Employment Rights of People with Specific Disabilities

EEOC makes is clear that the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act covers unpaid time off for abortions

EEOC Report on Obstacles Faced by Black Federal Employees

EEOC Report: Agency Receives Record Number of New Charges & Collects More than $319 Million for Employees

EEOC Rules Transgender EMployees Have Protection

EEOC Rules Transgender Employees Protected Under Federal Sex Discrimination Law

EEOC Ruling Extends Sexual Discrimination Protection to Transgender Employees

EEOC Will Provide Position Statements to Employees While Charge Is Pending...But

Eighth Circuit Holds Plaintiffs Must Provide Evidence of Actual Damages Even when Employer Doesn't Keep Accurate Time Records

Eleventh Circuit Rules for Employees on FLSA Enterprise Coverage

Eleventh Circuit Ruling Strengthens Employers' Hand Against Employees who Abuse Access to Information Systems

Eleventh Circuit: FLSA May Apply to Employees of Primarily Intrastate Businesses if Materials Used Moved Interstate at Any Time

Email Privacy Rights at Work in New York

Emergency Sick Leave Bill: Congress Considers Time Off for the H1N1 Virus

Emerging laws protect the internet privacy of employees and students

Employee Not Owed Reporting Time or Split Shift Pay for Scheduled Meetings

Employee Rights Short Takes: GOP Private Club Sued For Race Discrimination, Latino Discrimination On The Rise And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Hostile Work Environment, GINA, FMLA And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: New Evidence Of Gender Pay Gap, Race Discrimination, Disability Discrimination And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: New Evidence Of Gender Pay Gap, Race Discrimination, Disability Discrimination And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Race Discrimination, 5.8 Milllion Dollar Verdict, Breach of Contract Damages And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Scalia’s Impartiality Questioned, Two Punitive Damage Awards, Disability Discrimination And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Supreme Court Hears Equal Protection Case, Firing For Facebook Posts May Be Illegal & More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Wage Discrimination, Paternity Leave, Disability Discrimination And More

Employee Rights Short Takes: Wage Discrimination, Race Discrimination, Sexual Harassment and More

Employee Rights: How to Protect Yourself at Work

Employees are Entitled to At Least Two Hours' Compensation for Attending Meetings -- Price v. Starbucks

Employees Are Not Required to Exhaust Internal Expense Reimbursement Procedures Before Suing -- Stuart v. RadioShack

Employees aren’t the only ones who have to watch what they post: Social media as retaliation

EMPLOYEES AT LAW FIRMS COULD BE VICTIMS OF AGE DISCRIMINATION

Employees Can Recover At Least Two Hours Per Day For Missed Meal and Rest Breaks -- United Parcel Service v. Superior Court

Employees Cannot be "On-Call" During Rest Breaks -- Augustus v. ABM Security Services, Inc.

Employees Cannot Sue Under Labor Code 351 for Alleged Tip Pooling Violations

Employees Entitled to Compensation for Business Use of Personal Cell Phones Regardless of Plan Terms -- Cochran v. Schwan's Home Services, Inc.

Employees Have a Right to Privacy in E-Mail Sent from Work

Employees in Limbo Land - EEOC Challenges the Solution

Employees May Be Held Personally Liable For Retaliation

Employees may speak to EEOC investigators without company counsel present

Employees of Large Retail Employers Entitled to Breaks beginning in March 2011

Employees of Large Retail Employers Entitled to Breaks beginning in March 2011

Employees of private federal prison can be liable to prisoner under Bivens (2-1)

Employees Rejoice Over After Hours Pay Case

Employees shouldn’t have to choose between their religion and their job

EMPLOYEES SUE BIG LOTS FOR RACIAL DISCRMINATION

EMPLOYEES SUFFERING FROM LUNG CANCER CANNOT BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY THEIR CA EMPLOYERS

Employees Who Wear "Two Hats" Can Have Two Separate Employment Contracts -- Faigin v. Signature Group Holdings

Employees Work “At The Will of Their Employer”

Employees' Expectations of Privacy Limited When Using Company-Issued Electronic Devices

Employees' Lives Cheaper Than Proper Safety Measures

Employees' Lives Cheaper Than Proper Safety Measures

Employees' Non-Competes Executed In Sale of Business Subject to Lower Scrutiny (Mohr v. Bank of New York Mellon Corp.)

Employees' use of Facebook biggest time-suck, according to recent survey

Employees, if you don’t want us to get your social media info in discovery, don’t post!

Employees, the Firm, and Corporation

Employees: HR is NOT Necessarily There to Help You

Employer Bill of Rights is (finally) available for Kindle

Employer Cutbacks Costing Kentucky and Indiana Employees

Employer Must Watch For Broad Use of Employee Indemnification and Advancement Rights (James River Mgmt. v. Kehoe)

Employer's Termination of Non-Union Employees for Facebook Posts Violated NLRA

Employer's Termination of Non-Union Employees for Facebook Posts Violated NLRA

Employer's Uniform Classification of Its Own Employees Does Not Justify Class Treatment -- Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Overtime Pay Litigation

Employers and Employees Alike Continue to Wait for Brinker Ruling

Employers Beware Part 2: Bank Employee Indicted For Theft Of Almost $1 Million

Employers Beware! Employees are Permitted to Use Employer’s Email Systems for Non Work Purposes, Including Union Organizing

Employers Can Still Discipline Employees for Legal Drug Use

Employers May Be Liable For Injuries Caused By Employees On Business Trips

Employers must comply with NLRB employee rights posting rule by April 30

Employers Must Provide "Valuable Consideration" To Current Employees When Entering A Non-Compete Agreement During Employment

Employers of Miami-Dade Beware�You May Soon Be Required to Pay for Your Employees� Sick Leave!

Employers or employees: who owns social media accounts?

Employers Shalt Not "Encourage" Employees to Work During Meal Breaks -- Brinker v. Superior Court

Employers Should Carefully Consider Whether To Sue Former Employees For Threatened Trade Secret Misappropriation Based On Recent California Court of Appeal Decision Awarding Over $1.6 Million To Former Employees

Employers, for the love of God, please stop banning employees from discussing their wages

Employers, repeat after me: “Tips belong to employees, not employers.”

Employers: Time to Update your EEO Postings

Employment Discrimination Suit Denied Because of Procedural Time-Bar

Employment Lawsuit against Restaurant Chain Claims Employees Were Underpaid

Employment rights of employees who have been arrested

Empoyers Beware Part 2: Bank Employee Indicted For Theft Of Almost $1 Million

Encourage your Employees to Improve with our Employee Performance Improvement Plan

ENDA Introduced For the First Time in the Senate

Enforcement Action by Federal Trade Commission Highlights Importance of Social Media Guidelines for Employees

Ensure that your Employees follow Protocol with Lock Out Tag Out Posters

Episode 10 of Fairly Competing: Trade Secrets, Back to Basics Part 1

Episode 11 of Fairly Competing: Trade Secrets Back to Basics, Part 2

Episode 8 of Fairly Competing: Has the Time Come to Add a Federal Civil Trade Secrets Claim?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Says Discrimination At All Time High

Equity Incentive Plans: Compensating Key Employees

Eskridge Alleges Not Being Given Tenure by UVA Law Based in Part on Sexual Orientation

Establishing Civil Rights Denied: LGBT Employment Protections

Establishing Value From Being Secret Is the Most Difficult Part of any Trade Secrets Case

Even in a time of great polarization, Trump’s job approval isn’t static

Even Teenage Seasonal Employees Can Experience Kentucky Employment Discrimination

Even Teenage Seasonal Employees Can Experience Kentucky Employment Discrimination

Exceptions to travel restrictions: getting employees back to the U.S.

Executive Order 11246, OFCCP and The Reach of Time

Expanding Seamen’s Rights By Pursuing Punitive Damages

Expected Executive Order Protecting LGBT Employees has Implications for Employers

Expert's Meeting on Restatement, Part II

Facebook = Protected/Concerted, Part II

Fact-Finding At The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Failing to communicate with disabled employees is an easy way to buy an ADA lawsuit

Failing to communicate with disabled employees is an easy way to buy an ADA lawsuit

FAIR Act Will Help Enforce Workers’ Rights and Ability to Join Together and Fight Back Against Employer and Corporate Wrongdoing

FAMILY Act would provide paid leave for employees

Family Leave Rights Apply To Domestic Partners

Fast Food Employees in Kentucky and Other States Hold a One-Day Strike to Raise the Minimum Wage

Fast Food Employees in Kentucky and Other States Hold a One-Day Strike to Raise the Minimum Wage

Federal Agencies to Issue Interim Rule Amending FAR to Implement Employee Notification Rights Under Executive Order 13496

Federal Contractors Have Additional Time to File VETS Reporting Forms

Federal Court Determines Anti-Retaliations Laws Protect Federal Employees In Diggs v. HUD

Federal Court Refuses to Enjoin Florida "Guns-at-Work Law" as Applied to Employees.

Federal District Court Affirms U.S. Department of Labor's Position that Healthcare Providers Participating in HMOs for Federal Employees are Subject to Federal Contractor Affirmative Action Requirements

Federal Employee Rights

Federal Employees – Discipline / Removal

Federal Employees Have Less than 2% Chance of Success Before MSPB Judges

Federal Employees Have Less than 2% Chance of Success Before MSPB Judges

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE

Federal LGBT Employment Rights On The Move

Fee Agreements and Time Sheets Discoverable In Non-Compete Dispute (OfficeMax Inc. v. Sousa)

FEMALE EMPLOYEES FIRED FOR NOT BEING AS CHRISTIAN AS THEIR BOSS WANTED THEM TO BE

Female Employees Sue Goldman Sachs for Sex Discrimination

Feuer on Determining the Death Beneficiary Under an ERISA Plan and the Rights of Such a Beneficiary

Field Museum Workers Say It’s Time for the CEO to Start Making Sacrifices, Too

Fifth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Win for Employees

Fifth Circuit Rules Employers Do Not Have to Pay for Donning and Doffing Time Despite Failure to Address Issue in Collective Bargaining Negotiations

File this one away: Supreme Court continues its trend of protecting complaining employees from retaliation

Filing A Sexual Harassment Complaint With The Illinois Department of Human Rights

Filing A Sexual Harassment Complaint With The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Filing An Age Discrimination Complaint With The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Financial Literacy in the Workplace: Empowering Employees

Fired in real time: A little bit pregnant

Fired in Real Time: Networking When Not Working

Fired in real time: Never meet with your boss at 4 pm on Friday

Fired in real time: No soup for you.

Fired in Real Time: On the Dole

Fired in real time: The perp walk.

Firing Squad Photo Sends Chilling Message to ATF Employees

Fisk & Chemerinsky on Political Speech and Association Rights after Knox v. SEIU Local 1000

FLOC Takes Fight for U.S. Tobacco Workers' Rights to England

Florida Expands Rights of Returning National Guard Members.

Florida Federal Court Rules Employees May Leave Guns in Cars While at Work.

Florida Law Changes Reemployment Rights of National Guard Members Returning from State Active Duty

Florida Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees Also Rises on July 24, 2009

Florida Supreme Court Rules Florida Civil Rights Act Bars Pregnancy Discrimination

Florida Supreme Court Upholds Legislation Requiring Public Employees to Contribute to Retirement Accounts

Florida Whistleblower's Act Protects Employees of the Government and Companies that Contract with Florida Governments

FMLA Protection for Part-timers?

FMLA Protection for Part-timers?

FMLA Protection for Part-timers?

FMLA Protection for Part-timers?

FMLA to Cover Leave for Gay Partners of Federal Employees

Food Safety Bill Contains Whistleblower Protections for Industry Employees

Foreign Travel by Members of Congress (Part I)

Foreign Travel by Members of Congress (Part II)

Foreign Travel by Members of Congress (Part III)

Forthcoming Employee Rights Employment Policy Journal Symposium on Decent Work

Forum: Labor Rights of Non-Standard and Excluded Workers

Fourth Circuit Finds Employers Do Not Have to Pay for Donning & Doffing Time That Was Subject to Collective Bargaining

Fourth Circuit joins D.C. Circuit in striking down the NLRB's embattled Notification of Employee Rights

Fourth Circuit Limits Employers' Use of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to Prosecute Disloyal Employees

Fourth Circuit says employees can copy data the employer allows them to see

Free Speech Rights of Government and Public Employees: What are "Matters of Public Concern"?

Free Speech Rights of Policy-Making Public Employees

From Marquette Law School to the National Football League Part I: Claude Taugher

From Marquette Law School to the National Football League, Part II: Larry McGinnis

From the archives: Time off for religious holidays

Fudge on Migrants' Human Rights

Fukushima and the Law of the Sea (Part I)

GAO Civil Rights Report and Two Supplements

Garden on Citizens, United and Citizens United: The Future of Labor Speech Rights

General Assembly Severely Limits Employees' Rights to Accrued Vacation Pay Upon Termination

Georgia Employers Must Show Legitimate Reasons For Failing To Reinstate Employees

Georgia Garnishments, Florida Minimum Wage and Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors

Georgia's cracking down on businesses who shuck their duty to provide workers' compensation coverage for employees.

Georgia-Pacific Employees Can Now Tweet Without Fear

German Workers Rally For T-Mobile USA Employees’ Rights

Getting Paid for Blackberry Time After Work

Getting To Work On Time Isn't Always An Essential Job Function Under The ADA

Getting To Work On Time Isn't Always An Essential Job Function Under The ADA

Ghana groups use whistleblower rights booklet to fight corruption

Ghana groups use whistleblower rights booklet to fight corruption

Global Unions Demand Rights for Migrant Workers

Going Gaga Over Workers’ Rights

Good Time in Wisconsin: Why and How

Gov. Brown Vetoes Cal. Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Government Employee Privacy Rights

Governor Brown Signs End of Session Employment Laws Part II

Governor Signs Bill to Exempt Certain Employees from Meal and Rest Periods

Grad Student Workers Plan Counterattack After Michigan Gov. Signs Law Denying Rights

Graduate Students To Be Considered Employees Under the NLRA Again?

Graduation: A Time for New Beginnings

Gratitude is an Attitude: Teachings from Cedric Prakash, S.J., a Human Rights Defender from India

Great Disability Rights Opinion From Seventh Circuit For Employees And Their Lawyers

Groupon Employees File Lawsuit For Overtime Pay

Groupon Employees File Lawsuit For Overtime Pay

Guide to Disability Benefits Under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS)

Guidelines to Follow When Determining Family Medical Leave Eligibility for Your Employees

Guns in the Workplace: Part 2

Hallows Lecture Examines Little Noted, but Pivotal Civil Rights Decision

Harkavy: SCOTUS Eviscerating Ee Rights

Hawaiian Hilton Workers Fear Permanent Layoffs As Recall Rights Expiration Nears

Health Care Law Will Impose Various Obligations on Employers, Insurers over Time

Health Care Reform for Employers and Employees

Health Care Reform Update: Interim Regulations Issued for "Patient's Bill of Rights" Requirements

Healthcare Reform Update: IRS Regulations Address Full-Time Status of Nine-Month Education Employees

Healthcare Reform Update: The Top Five Questions Employees Will Be Asking on October 1

Healthy Families Act: Proposed Legislation Mandates Seven Days of Paid Time Off

Helpful Check List for Employees Considering Severance Packages

Helping Transgender Employees Find Acceptance in the Workplace

High praise for The Employer Bill of Rights

High Profile Non-Compete Disputes Turn Out Poorly for Departing Employees

HIRE Act Provides Employers with Tax Incentives for Hiring and Retaining Qualified Employees

Hiring A Lawyer For The Illinois Human Rights Commission

HISPANIC EMPLOYEES SUBJECTED TO A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT

HISTORIC FIX TO NEW YORK’S PART-TIME UNEMPLOYMENT SYSTEM A WIN FOR WORKERS; BOOSTS NEW YORK’S ECONOMIC RECOVERY BY ENCOURAGING RETURN TO WORK

Hodge on Employees as Stakeholders in EU Countries

Holiday Parties: What Do They Mean For Employers and Employees?

Hostess Uses The Twinkie Defense to Shift Blame to Employees

Hot Goods and Economic Duress: Part I

Hot Goods and Economic Duress: Part II

House Approves Bill Granting Food Industry Employees Whistleblower Rights

House Clears Bill Revising Definition of Full-Time Employee Under Affordable Care Act

House Committee Advances Bills Addressing Definition of Full-Time Employee under ACA

House Democrats plan push to pass PRO Act strengthening workers' organizing rights

House Passes Appropriations Bill that Includes Public Safety Personnel Collective Bargaining Rights

House Passes Bill That Clarifies FMLA Hours of Service Requirement for Airline Employees

House Subcommittee Considers Comp Time Bill

House Subcommittee Hearing Examines ACA Definition of Full-Time Employees

Houston's Case Might Shed Light on How Far Employers Can Go to Access Employees' Restricted Social Networking Profiles

How AI Impacts Workers’ Rights

How Businesses Can Better Care For Their Female Employees

How Do You Define "Work Time" Anyway?

How Do You Enforce A Judgement From The Human Rights Commission?

How do you handle employees talking about “replacement theory” at work?

How do you respond when your employees are threatened?

How do you spell civil rights? ENDA

How Empowering Employees Leads to Workplace Growth

HOW FARMWORKERS IN MICHIGAN ARE FIGHTING FOR LABOR RIGHTS AND RESPECT

How Much Social Media Freedom Of Speech Do Public Employees Have?

How Much Time Do Lawsuits Take?

How Passage of a "Right-to-Work" Bill Would Affect Indiana Employees

How the Poultry Industry is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights

How to Engage Employees in Hybrid Work Models

How to Help Employees Adjust To Remote Work

How to Help Your Employees Become More Productive

How to Meet Traveling Workers’ Health and Safety Rights

How to Read an Employment Contract: Part 1

How to Read an Employment Contract: Part 2

How Unions Are Fighting to Protect Abortion Rights

How will the Rejection of DOMA Affect Maryland Employees?

How Workplace Rights Could Change for Remote Workers

Howard Zinn, Noted Historian and Labor Rights Activist, Has Died

HR Question: Should I Be Paid For Travel Time?

Human Rights Day 2010

Humor and the Law, Part Five

Humor and the Law, Part Four

Humor and the Law, Part One

Humor and the Law, Part Three

Humor and the Law, Part Two

I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired

I’m going to say this loudly for the people in the back: IT’S ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYEES TO WORK FOR FREE

If employees had common sense, I’d be out of a job

If Widely Adopted, Workplace Bill of Rights Would Dramatically Improve Our Economy

If you bet on which of your employees will get Covid, you probably shouldn’t qualify for a bonus

If you treat employees like they are fungible, they will act like they are fungible

If you want to get yourself into discrimination hot water, stereotype your protected-class employees

If you’re going to change an employee’s time sheet, make sure it’s an accurate change

If your surveilling employees, the NLRB is watching you

If your workplace has “No bra Thursday,” it’s time for some harassment training

ILAW Publishes First Issue of Global Labour Rights Reporter

ILLEGALLY CLASSIFYING EMPLOYEES AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

Illinois Department Of Human Rights Investigations

Illinois Department of Human Rights Issues

Illinois Department Of Human Rights Legal Tips

Illinois Department of Human Rights Mediation

Illinois Department Of Human Rights Staff Cuts

Illinois Department Of Human Rights Update

Illinois Human Rights Act Trumps Title VII On Sexual Harassment

Illinois Human Rights Commission Cases

Illinois Human Rights Commission Pre-hearing Memo

Illinois Human Rights Commission Trials In Chicago

Illinois Sexual Harassment Cases Have Strict Time Limits For Filing

ILO Conference on the Future of Global Labor Rights

In Conference Call, Romney Urged Businesses To Tell Their Employees How to Vote

In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.: Let’s Protect Worker’s Rights

In Praise of Flip-Floppers (Part II)

In Praise of Flip-Floppers (Part III)

Indemnifying Employees

Indiana District Court Applies Federal Motor Carrier Exemption to Former Employees Who Never Crossed State Lines

Information About The Illinois Human Rights Commission In Chicago

Inside Counsel – 7th Circuit reversal of its own precedent on ADA requirement for reassignment of disabled employees

Intern Rights

Intern Rights At Work

Intern Rights by (popular) States

Internships, Part 2 and Health Care Update

Interview: Abortion Rights Benefit Workers

Involuntary Part-Timers Would Boost the Unemployment Rate

Iowa House votes to put animal rights whistleblowers in jail

Ireland Reflections 2020–Derry Girls (and Boys) Part 1

Ireland Reflections 2020–Derry Girls (and Boys) Part 2

Is 32 hours considered full time in Colorado?

Is 32 hours considered full time in Colorado?

Is “Boot-Up” Time Compensable?

Is “Boot-Up” Time Compensable?

Is “Boot-Up” Time Compensable?

Is “Boot-Up” Time Compensable?

Is it illegal to ask employees to promise not to sign union authorization cards?

Is It Sexual Harassment to Require Employees to Submit to Pat-Down Searches that Involve Inappropriate Touching?

Is it Time to Bring Back the Marquette Law School Baseball Team?

Is it time to do away with McDonnell Douglas?

Is It Time to Expand the Size of Congress?

Is It Time To Regulate Or Nationalize Facebook?

Is Michael Vick a Civil Rights Martyr?

Is OSHA Getting Tougher? For 2nd Time Ever, Federal Agency Pushes Company-Wide Settlement

Is Physical Presence At or By A Specific Time An Essential Requirement of All Employment?

Is regular attendance an essential job function when an employee asks for time off from work?

Is Rounding of Employee Time Entries Legal in California?--California Supreme Court Orders Appellate Court to Decide

Is There Any Better Time Than Now For a General Strike?

Is Time Spent Waiting to Clear Security Compensable?

Is Your Company A "Large Employer" Subject to "Obamacare" -- Understanding the 50 full-time Equivalent Threshold

Is Your Employer Complying With The FLSA and Notice of Your Rights Under the Affordable Care Act?

IT Help Desk Employees and the FLSA

It's illegal to ask employees to give up overtime payments

It's Time To Stop Judging the Unemployed

It's Time To Tap President Obama On The Shoulder

It’s Equal Pay Day And Time To Pass The Paycheck Fairness Act

It’s long past time to Ctrl-Alt-Del the FLSA

It’s not realistic to expect employees not to discuss politics at work, but it is to require them to do so professionally

It’s past time to self-regulate your use of noncompete agreements before the government does it for you

It’s Time for an Organizing Revival

It’s time for Congress to fulfill its constitutional oversight role and protect whistleblowers

It’s Time For Mandated Maternity and Paternity Leave

It’s time to bring Ohio’s discrimination law in line with its federal counterparts

It’s Time to Clean Up the Los Angeles Garment Industry’s Dirty Secret

It’s time to end sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination

It’s time to end sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination

It’s time to end sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination

It’s time to end sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination

It’s Time To Mobilize Workers’ Capital

It’s Time to Tap into Labor’s Fortress of Finance

It’s time to update your severe-weather policy

Jail Time For Executives Convicted Of Violating FLSA

Jail Time for Physician's HIPAA Violation Highlights Need to Redouble Compliance Efforts

Jason Tremblay presents on what businesses with employees must know

Jason Tremblay to present a 4-part seminar series on employment law for businesses

Jason Tremblay to present at 4-part seminar series on employment law for businesses

Jason Tremblay writes article for Inside Counsel on formal orientation programs for new employees

Jason Tremblay writes article for Inside Counsel on handling references for terminated employees

Jim Hawkins on The Law's Remarkable Failure to Protect Mistakenly Overpaid Employees

Jobs Crisis Forum: The Time for Excuses Is Over. Create Jobs Now

Judge Blackburn Rules on Alabama's Immigration Law: Part 1

Judge Blackburn Rules on Alabama's Immigration Law: Part 2

June 1963 - Civil Rights Act Introduced

Jury Awards Three Employees $500,000 In Sexual Harassment Case

Jury Duty in de Tocqueville’s Time and in the Present

Just Another Battle Between Employers and Employees . . . .

Just in Time for Gay Pride: Inclusive ENDA Introduced

Justice Sotomayor’s Ruling Supports Employee Rights

Kasten v. Saint-Gobain - Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employees in FLSA Complaint Case

Kasten v. Saint-Gobain - Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employees in FLSA Complaint Case

Keep your Employees Informed with Appropriate Labor Law Posters, Forms, and Pamphlets

Keep your Employees informed with our California Compliance Posters and Forms

Kentucky and Indiana Employees to See a Rise in the Minimum Wage

Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Protects Kentucky Workers from Discrimination

Kentucky Employees to Receive Overtime Pay Due from Sullivan University

Kentucky Supreme Court Landmark Ruling Provides Victory For Employees in Creech Inc. v. Brown

Kentucky Workers Compensation Retaliation: Punitive Damages and the Jural Rights Doctrine

Kickstarter employees vote to unionize, this week in the war on workers

Kickstarter employees vote to unionize, this week in the war on workers

Know Your Rights to Paid Leave and Unemployment During the COVID-19 Crisis

Know Your Rights!: The Anti-Discrimination Provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)

Kolben on Labor Rights as Human Rights

Labor Board Delays Labor Rights Poster Rule as a Result of Lawsuit

Labor Code Protections Do Not Apply To Government Employees -- California Correctional Peace Officers Assoc. v. State of California

Labor Day 2013 – It’s Time to Stand Up

Labor Rights and Geospatial Data

Labor Rights as Human Rights

Labor Secretary Scalia Wrongly Rejects Federal Role in Enforcing Unemployment Rights of Workers Who Refuse Unsafe Work

Labor: Developing formal orientation programs for new employees

Lactation rights case teaches valuable lesson on responding to employee complaints

LAID OFF EMPLOYEES IN SACRAMENTO REGION SUCCESSFULLY FINDING NEW JOBS

Last Call: NLJ Call for Papers: Civil Rights and State Legislation

Latest stats about supervisors being “Facebook friends” with employees reveals interesting generational data

Laughing out the door: half of employees admit to stealing corporate data

Law Firm Employees File Suit Alleging Overtime Pay Violations

Law Firm Partners = Employees?

Lawmakers Turn Back the Clock on Women’s Rights

Leave Rights in California: Part 1

Leave Rights in California: Part 2

Legal Anomalies in Federal Indian Law, Part II—Tribal Jurisdiction Over Non-Indians

Legal Anomalies in Federal Indian Law—Part I

Legislation Would Greatly Expand Number of Employees Subject to Overtime

Less Than 15 Employees? There's Always Immigration Discrimination

Lessons from Children’s Lit, part 3: Knuffle Bunny

Let employees have their say when disciplining

Let's Get a Grip, Employees' Rights Did Not End Yesterday

Let's meet employees where they are on their pronouns

Levinson on Electronic Monitoring of Employees

LGBTQ+ rights vs. religious liberty

Lioness | My Coworker Terrorized Me and Said He Was Part of a Drug Ring. When I Told Apple, I Was Punished.

Lori Adelson contributes to article on reinstating employees after filing wrongful-termination claims

Lori Adelson offers thoughts on rising retaliation against employees who report bad behavior at work

Lori Adelson offers thoughts on the employment rights of employees who have been arrested

Lori Adelson posts to General Counselor blog on employers need to comply with NLRB employee rights posting rule by April 30

Loss Prevention Often Lies to Employees

Low Income Employees Losing Income Left and Right

Low Income Employees Losing Income Left and Right

Low wages & unpredictable schedules: A toxic combination for part time employees

Mad at Obama, Papa John’s Will Cut Hours To Rob Employees of Healthcare

Mailing FMLA Notices to Employees? Not So Fast

Major New Study on Recidivism Rates Shows Stability Over Time and Variation Among the States

Major Shakeup at NYC Commission on Human Rights

Make Sure Your Employees Are Really Employees (Figueroa v. Precision Surgical, Inc.)

Male Principal May Have Claim For Sex Discrimination And Harrassment Against Female Employees

Male Victims of Sexual Harassment Have Rights Too: DC Court of Appeals Upholds $800,000 Sexual Harassment Verdict Against Prominent Female Lobbyist

Maltby on Workplace Rights

Manage your employees efficiently with our Employee Forms

Management Rights: A Pitfall When Negotiating Your First Contract

Managing Employees' Use of Personal SmartPhones and Tablets for Work

Many Companies Placing Emphasis on Cultural Fit Over Qualifications When Hiring New Employees

Mark A. Spognardi quoted in Inside Counsel on 7th Circuit reversal of its own precedent on ADA requirement for reassignment of disabled employees

Mark A. Spognardi quoted in Law360 article about new CVS policy regarding health wellness screanings for employees

Martin Luther King Jr. Gave His Life Supporting Workers’ Rights

Maryland "Facebook Law" Raises New Obstacles For Employers Vetting Applicants And Investigating Employees, But With Important Exceptions

Maryland Bills to Watch — Part one

Maryland Department of Labor to Push Bill Increasing Penalties for Mislcassifying Employees as Independent Contractors

Maryland Employees: Do Not Lose Earned Wages When You Change Jobs

Massachusetts Court Ruling Expands the Scope of Damages Available to Employees Misclassified as Independent Contractors

Massachusetts Employers must pay Accrued but Unused Vacation at the time of Discharge

Massachusetts High Court Rules that Terminated Employees Must be Paid for Unused Vacation, Regardless of Employer's Written Vacation Policy

Massachusetts Overtime Law May Apply to Employees Who Work Outside the State

Massachusetts Wage Payment Act requires Payment of Earned Wages at the time of Discharge

Mediation At The Illinois Department of Human Rights

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 1)

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 2)

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 3)

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 4)

Memories of Sensenbrenner Hall (Part 5)

Mental Health and Your Rights in the Workplace

Merrill Lynch Tells Female Employees To Join the Seduce the Boys Club

Merry Christmas employers—NLRB proposes posting of federal labor rights for ALL covered employees

Metro employees already have whistleblower protections

Metro employees' union reports on NTSSA protections

Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safety concerns

Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safety concerns

Michigan's New "Social Media Password Protection" Law Multiplies the Challenges for Employers Seeking to Investigate Employees' Social Media Misconduct

Michigan's New "Social Media Password Protection" Law Multiplies the Challenges for Employers Seeking to Investigate Employees' Social Media Misconduct

Milwaukee Arrest Trends, 1980-2011 — Part Three: Chicago Comparisons

Milwaukee Arrests, Part IV: Racial Disparity Story Similar in Chicago, Sort Of

Milwaukee City Atty Letter Explaining Why Walker's Budget Bill Unlawfully Violates Public Employee Pension Rights

Misclassifying Employees As Exempt Violates Federal Law

Misclassifying Employees As Exempt Violates Federal Law

Missed This New Jersey MDV the First Time Around

Monkeypox Is a Workers’ Rights Issue

More Government Talk: This Time to Your Employees

More on educating your employees about being “profersonal”

More on Practice and Preaching, Part I

More Reasons to " Love New York": Additional Employment Discrimination Law Protections for New York City Residents Under the New York City Human Rights Law

More Reasons to "Love New York": Additional Employment Discrimination Law Protections for New York City Residents Under the New York City Human Rights Law

More Time to Comment on FLSA Protections for Home Care Workers

Morris on Employee-Rights Posters and Employers’ Free Speech

Must an employer pay employees for time spent waiting for computers to boot up?

Must you pay your employees for civic and charitable work?

Must you pay your employees for civic and charitable work?

Must you pay your employees for civic and charitable work?

Must you tell employees when you are surveilling their devices?

My one question for Mitt Romney: civil rights

NAA Conference on Labour Rights & Remedies

NAACP Leader: Photo ID Lawsuit Carries on 140 Years of Voting Rights Struggles

National Labor Relations Board Proposes Rule Requiring Posting of Employee Rights

National Labor Relations Board Wants Employers to Post Notices of their Rights

Navigating Labor Disputes: Essential Strategies toProtect Your Rights at Work

New Article by Prof. Calboli Explores Tension Between Free Trade and Trademark Rights

New bill seeks to extend comp time to private employers

New Bill Would Raise Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees

New Database Creates Time-Series Plots of Phrases in U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

New Disability Insurance Law Should Help Maryland Employees

New EEO poster required for all employers with 15 or More employees

New Employee Rights Poster Issued for Federal Contractors

New GAO Report on Civil Rights Enforcement During the Prior Administration

New Interactive NLRB Webpage Provides Examples of Employee Section 7 Rights Under NLRA

New Jersey Court's Decision Provides Roadmap For Access To Employees' Restricted Social Media Content

New Jersey Court's Decision Provides Roadmap For Access To Employees' Restricted Social Media Content

New Jersey Restores Its Exemption for Commissioned Sales Employees

New Law Keeps Illinois Employers Out Of Employees' Facebook

New Law Ups the Ante Significantly for California Employers Who Are Caught Misclassifying Employees As Independent Contractors

New Law Will Require Employers Give Wage Notices To Maryland Employees Every Pay Period

New Laws in Maryland, part one

New Maryland Law Requires Shift Breaks for Retail Employees

New Posting Required By NLRB: Notification of Employee Rights

New pregnancy legislation is unneeded; the law already requires accommodation of expecting employees

New Tennessee Attorney General's Opinion Opens Door to Wage Claims by Employees Serving Jury Duty

New unemployment claims fall below 1 million for the first time in five months

New Whistleblower Legislation – A Step in the Right Direction for Employment Rights

New Whistleblower Legislation Instituted by Federal Government Good for Kentucky Employees

New York Appeals Court Applies Liberal Standard in Reinstating a Sex Bias Claim Under the City Human Rights Law

New York Area Car Washes Agree to Pay Employees $3.4 Million for Wage Violations

New York City Amends Its Human Rights Law to Extend Protection to Interns

New York City Paid Sick Time Law Receives Economic Green Light

New York Employees are Protected from Retaliaton

New York Employees are Shackled by Old Chains

New York Enacts Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

New York Governor David Patterson Signs Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

New York Salaried Employees Are Entitled to Overtime Pay

New York Significantly Expands Protections For Employees Under Whistleblower Laws

New York State Human Rights Law Amended to Protect Domestic Violence Victims

New York Unemployment Benefits No Longer Available to Former Employees Receiving Severance

NFL Players Have Fewer Rights Than Their Counterparts

NFL Response to Player’s Cardiac Arrest is a Labor Rights Issue

Night Shift Survival Guide: How Employees Can Advocate for Their Well-Being

Nine Employees May Be Sufficient to Constitute a Class -- Hendershot v. Ready to Roll Transportation, Inc.

Ninth Circuit Clarifies When Non-Tipped Employees May Participate In Tip Pools

Ninth Circuit Clarifies When Travel and Commuting Time Must be Paid -- Rutti v. LoJack

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds That Individual Managers Of A Bankrupt Corporation Can Be Held Liable for Employees' Unpaid Wages

Ninth Circuit Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps are Exempt Administrative Employees

Ninth Circuit Upholds Certification of Class of Over 1.5 Million Employees

Ninth Circuit Weighs In on Commute Time and De Minimis Time

Ninth Circuit: Commute in Employer's Vehicle Not Compensable Time

NJ Inadvertently Eliminates Its Exemption for Commissioned Sales Employees

NLJ Call for Papers: Civil Rights and State Legislation

NLRB agrees that employees cannot waive right to class actions

NLRB dismisses charges against lawyers for alleged “union busting” against the employees of its client … but let’s not celebrate yet

NLRB Extends Employee Rights Notice Posting Rule Implementation Date

NLRB Finds Discussions With Employees of Another Employer Can Constitute Protected Activity

NLRB Flips Again on E-Mail, Concluding that Employees Typically Lack the Right to Use Employer E-Mail for NLRA Communications

NLRB invites briefs on whether faculty members are employees.

NLRB Is Considering Expanding Union Rights to Organize on Employer Premises: What Employers Should Do Now

NLRB Issues Final Employee Rights Notice Posting Rule

NLRB judge says employee cannot require its employees to disclaim social media posts

NLRB Launches Employee Rights App

NLRB Overrules Itself and Appropriates Companies' Email Systems for Employees' Protected Communications

NLRB postpones rights posting rule to April 30

NLRB proposes rule to require posting of NLRA rights

NLRB re-writes law on employees displaying union logos at work

NLRB refuses to expand representation rights to non-union employees during investigatory interviews

NLRB Releases Employee Rights Poster Under New Rule

NLRB Required Notice On Employee Rights Is Now Available

NLRB Requires Employers to Post Unionization Rights Notice

NLRB revises independent contractors test for federal labor law rights

NLRB Rules on Access Rights of Off-Duty Contractors

NLRB Rules that Hospital Interns and Residents Are "Employees" With Right to Organize

NLRB Says Workers Need to Know Their Rights

NLRB to Expand Outreach Campaign Targeting Nonunion Employees

NLRB to require employers to post notices of employee rights

NLRB’s Poster Requirement on Rights to Organize is Postponed Again

No Self-care FMLA Protection for State Employees

No SOX protection for contractor's employees, First Circuit majority says

Non-Compete Suits and TROs - Part 1

Non-Compete Suits and TROs - Part 2

Non-Compete Suits and TROs - Part 3

Non-Resident Employees Must Be Paid Overtime Compensation

Non-Resident Employees Must Be Paid Overtime Compensation

Non-Union Employees Entitled to Opt-Out Notice Before Disclosure of Personal Information to Union

Nothing can go wrong when employees date each other, right?

Notice to Employees of Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act

Now is as good a time as ever for a cybersecurity refresher

NSA Whistleblower Case Highlights Lack of Protection for Intelligence Employees

Nursing Mom’s Rights Under The Fair Labor Standards Act – Is Your Employer Doing What It Needs?

NWC amicus brief argues to protection of bank employees

NWC calls on EPA to oust Civil Rights Director

NY Enacts Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

NY Senate Passes Home Care Workers' Bill of Rights

NY’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

NY’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

NYC Commission on Human Rights Releases Online Gender Harassment Training

NYC Employment Discrimination Cases get Better for Employees

Obama Signs Executive Order Creating Higher Minimum Wage for Employees of Government Contractors

Obama Signs Executive Order Creating Higher Minimum Wage for Employees of Government Contractors

Obama Throws Support Behind Wisconsin Public Employees

ObamaCare’s Employer Mandate is Delayed for Another Year Until 2016 for Businesses with Less Than 100 Full-Time Employees and is Modified for Larger Businesses Too

Of new dogs and new employees: communicating value is key

Officially announcing the release of The Employer Bill of Rights

Ohio considers paid leave for quarantined employees

Ohio Employees' Right to Receive Unused Vacation Pay When Terminated

Ohio federal court recognizes sexual orientation as a protected class for public employees

Ohio House considering comp time bill (HB 61)

Ohio Supreme Court rules that employers do not have to provide pregnant employees greater leave rights than non-pregnant employees

OLMS to Issue Final Rule on Notification of Employee Labor Law Rights

On Dustin Johnson and knowing the rules: A lesson for your employees

Oral Argument in the Quon Text Messaging Case Suggests the U.S. Supreme Court Will Avoid a Broad Pronouncement Concerning Employee Privacy Rights

Oregon Minimum Wage for Agricultural Employees Poster

Oregon Minimum Wage for Agricultural Employees Poster Revision

Origins of Native American Team Names, Part II

OSHA'S NEW HAZARD COMMUNICATION STANDARD: EMPLOYERS ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE TRAINING TO EMPLOYEES BY DECEMBER 1, 2013

OSUL Symposium on Torts and Civil Rights Law: Migration and Conflict

Over Half of Departing Employees Steal Proprietary Data, Study Finds

Overtime pay for On Call Time

Overtime Pay Required For Blackberry Use by Non-Exempt Employees

Overtime Pay Required For Blackberry Use by Non-Exempt Employees

Overtime Pay Violations Occur Each Time You Receive A Paycheck Without The Pay You Deserve

PA Child Labor Act Modernizes and Clarifies Work Hour Restrictions for Minors in Time for Summer Hiring Season

Paid Donor Leave for California Employees

Parents Before Their Time

Part 2 of Feuer on Tax Qualification of Pension Plan Trusts

Part I: The Majority's Holding in Reliable Fire Equipment

Part II: Application of the Legitimate Business Interest Test in Reliable Fire Equipment

Part III: The Concurring Opinion in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo

Part IV: The Dissenting Opinion in Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo

Part of the Way Along the Path of Racial Equity

Part V: What's Next After Reliable Fire Equipment v. Arredondo

Paying employees for accrued vacation upon termination—Yay or Nay?

Pending Final Rule Will Allow Issuance of L Visas for the Same Time Period as the Visa Reciprocity Schedule

Penn State LSER Establishes the Center for Global Workers’ Rights (CGWR)

Pennsylvania Act Protects Employees Who Report Crimes to Police

Pennsylvania Based Employees May Be Entitled to Overtime for work in Foreign Countries

Pennsylvania Enacts "Mini-COBRA" requiring Insurers to offer Continuation of Health Coverage Options for Employees of Small Businesses

Pennsylvania Whistleblower Law Restricts Ability of Public Employers and Non-Profits to Terminate Employees

People Who Have Shaped the Teaching Careers of Our Faculty—Part 1

People Who Have Shaped the Teaching Careers of Our Faculty—Part 2

People Who Have Shaped the Teaching Careers of Our Faculty—Part 3: Lessons Learned from Professor Jim Colliton

People Who Have Shaped the Teaching Careers of Our Faculty—Part 4

People Who Have Shaped the Teaching Careers of Our Faculty—Part 5: Walter Weyrauch, Mentor and Friend

Per Diem Payments Ruled Part of Employee's Regular Wage Rate for Purposes of Calculating Overtime Rate

Perez Confirmed As Head of DOJ Civil Rights

Perez Confirmed As Head of DOJ Civil Rights

Petitioner awarded back pay for time suspended beyond thirty days

Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Exempt Administrative Employees, Seventh Circuit Holds

Photo Time!

Pickering Free Speech Rights and Cyberbullying by Public Employees

Picking Off The Class One at a Time - Chindarah v. Pick Up Stix

Pizza Does Not Motivate Employees More Than Cash

Plausible Pleading, Part II

Plausible Pleading, Part III

Plausible Pleading, Part IV

Plausible Pleading, Part V

Please Do Not Microchip the Employees (But Biometric Scanning May Be OK)

Please don’t tell your employees for whom to vote

PLEASE don’t tell your employees which candidate to vote for

Police Officers Not Entitled To Pay Under FLSA For Time Spent Changing

Police Officers' Bill of Rights Does Not Apply To Internal Complaints, Kentucky Court of Appeals Rules

Policy To Automatically Fire Employees After Using Up Leave Violates ADA

Poll: Majority Oppose Stripping Bargaining Rights for Public Workers

Potty mouthed employees

Powerful Anit-Discrimination and Retaliation Law for New York City Employees

Pregnant Worker Takes Vacation Time to Visit Restroom

President Obama and the demand for universal rights

President Obama Announces Raise in Minimum Wage for Employees of Federal Contractors

President Obama Issues Executive Order Raising the Minimum Wage of Certain Federal Contract Employees

President Of Florida-Based Company Threatens To Fire Employees If Romney Loses

President to Sign Executive Order Banning LGBT Discrimination for Federal Contractor Employees

Prison employees to rally against retaliation

Prisoner Rights

Private Sector Compensatory Time Bill Reintroduced

Pro Bono Week: Student and Alumni Features, Part I

Pro Bono Week: Student and Alumni Features, Part II

Proceeding Before The Illinois Department of Human Rights

Proceeding Before The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Proceeding Before The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Proceeding Before The Illinois Human RIghts Commission

Progressive in name, but not in the treatment of transgender employees?

Proposed Changes To Illinois Human Rights Act

Proposed NLRB Rule Requires Employers to Post Workers’ Rights

Proposed Rule Would Mandate Posting of NLRA Rights

Proposed Rules Governing Notification of Employee Rights under the National Labor Relations Act

Proposed Senate Bill Would Void Non-Competes For Employees Eligible for Unemployment

Protect your Employees Health with Hand Washing Posters

Protected concerted activity is an opportunity to engage with your employees, not to retaliate against them

Protected Concerted Activity: NLRB Recaps Relevant Rulings to Educate Employers and Employees

Protecting Workers’ Rights at the Super Bowl

Protecting Workers’ Rights at the Super Bowl

Providing straight information on public opinion in a historic political time

Public Employees Are Leading the Way on Making Government Work Better

Public Employees Under Attack

Public Employees' Have No Privacy Rights In Text Messages Sent on Employer-Issued Phone, Supreme Court Rules

Public Employers Still Cannot Unilaterally Impose Restrictions on Union Employees' Tobacco Use

Puerto Rico Reinstates Collective Bargaining for Public Employees

Pumping up employee lactation rights

Pumping up workplace lactation rights

Punishing Paterno, Part II

Purusing A Retaliation Claim At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Quon Decision Provides Useful Guidance for Private Employers While Skirting Broad Pronouncements on Employee Privacy Rights

Quon Decision Provides Useful Guidance for Private Employers While Skirting Broad Pronouncements on Employee Privacy Rights

Quon v. Arch Wireless: If privacy rights fall in the forest and no one chooses to rule on them…

RACE DISCRIMINATION IS AGAINST THE LAW IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY AND CALIFORNIA. MAKE SURE YOU ARE PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS.

Race Discrimination Verdict in Favor of Employees, but Defense Lawyers are the Big Winners

Ratner: Even Osama Should Have Had Criminal Rights

Readers' Requests: Nannies' Rights and Mental Illness in Academia

Reading and Briefing Cases Part 2

Real-time Control of Stormwater Management Systems

Recent Fourth Circuit Ruling Demonstrates Risks to Employers of Accessing Employees' Personal E-Mail Accounts

Recently Published Scholarship: Civil Rights and the Low-Wage Worker

Redskins Workers Fight For Their Right to Rights

Redskins Workers Fight For Their Right to Rights

Reinert on the Actual Success of Bivens Claims and Its Implications for the Constitutional Rights of Federal Employees

Remember That Time Our State was Selected to Host Nationals . . . .

Remind Your Employees to Wash Their Hands with Eye-Catching Hand Washing Posters

Remind Your Employees to Wash Their Hands with Hand Washing Posters

Reminder About the 11th Annual National Law Students Workers' Rights Conference

Reminder: New York Interns Are Now Protected Under Both the State and City Human Rights Laws

Report: European Corporate Investment and Workers' Rights in the American South

Reporting Time Pay Varies By State

Reporting Time Pay: A Wage and Hour Winter Wonderland

Reproductive Rights

Republican NLRB Threats Part of Bigger War on Workers

Republicans Accuse Labor Nominee of Fighting for Civil Rights

Request To Review Illinois Department of Human Rights Cases

Requiring Employees to Pay Back Training Costs May be Illegal Under California Law -- In Re Acknowledgement Cases

Restaurant (?!) Thinks It's Important to Take Away Customer's Legal Rights on Its Website

Restaurant Servers and Their Rights

Restaurant Servers and Their Rights

Retaliation Claim At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Retaliation Claim With Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Retaliation Claims Valid Where Employees Have A Reasonable Belief That Discirmination Occurred

Retaliation in Chicago Against Employees Who Cooperate With Investigations

Review Denied in See’s Candy Shops, Inc. v. Superior Court (Time Rounding)

Reviving Workers’ Rights in a New Economy

Right of Privacy Does Not Trump Government’s Right to Know its Contract Employees

Rights, Responsibilities, and Recommendations for Remote Work Under COVID-19 Restrictions

RIP Frank Kameny: Gay Rights Activist, Fired for Being Gay, the First to Sue

Sachs on Corporate Shareholders Deserve Equal Rights on Campaign Finance

San Francisco Employers: Time to Revise Employment Applications, Background Check Rules, as Supervisors "Ban the Box"

San Francisco Enacts Ordinance Requiring Employers to Consider Employees' Requests for Flexible Schedules

San Francisco Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights

Save Time and Money by Ordering Arkansas and Arizona Labor Law Posters from Our Online Store

SB 497: The New 90-Day Presumption For Employees in Retaliation Claims

Scholarship Athletes May be "Employees" Under National Labor Relations Act -- Northwestern University and College Athletic Players Association

SCOTUS case on Federal Employees Health Benefits Act preemption is settled

SCOTUS to Decide Whether Sentencing Judge Can Base Prison Term on Time Needed for Treatment Program

SCOTUS: FELA plaintiff need not prove proximate cause; "played any part" instruction is approved (5-4)

SEALS Part II: Workplace Privacy and the Internet

SEALS Part III: On Ricci

SEALS Part IV: LEL During the 1st 500 Days of the Obama Administration

SEALS Time

Second Circuit Again Nixes Gap Time Pay Claim Under the FLSA

Second Circuit Holds That Employees Do Not Have Private Cause of Action Under the Railway Labor Act

Second Circuit Rejects FLSA Gap Time Claim, Explores Pleading Requirements

Second Circuit Rules that the FLSA Does Not Apply to Claims for Gap-Time Pay

Second Circuit Takes Step Back in Protection of New York Employees in National Labor Relations Board v. Starbucks Corp.

Section Waiting Time 203 Penalties Are Not Recoverable Under The UCL

Secunda Continues to Search for Pickering Rights

Secunda Leads Wisconsin Public-Sector Employees In Storming Governor's Mansion

Secunda on Pension Rights & the Contract Clause

Secunda on Sex Stereotyping Claims by Gay Employees

Secunda on Stevens and the First Amendment Rights of Public Employees

Secunda on Stevens and the First Amendment Rights of Public Employees

Seeking Treatment For Alcoholism May Entitle Employees To Leave Under The FMLA

Senate Clears Defense Bill Extending National Guard Reemployment Rights, Clarifies that Certain TRICARE Health Care Entities Are Not Subject to OFCCP Requirements

Senate Passes Bill that Clarifies FMLA Hours of Service Requirement for Airline Employees

Senate Rejects Spending Bill Providing Public Safety Collective Bargaining Rights

Service + Solidarity Spotlight: Alaska Public Employees Pay Off Student School Meal Balances

Settlements (Part 1 of 3): 5 Reasons Non-Compete Cases Shouldn't (and Don't) Settle

Settlements (Part 2 of 3): 5 Reasons Non-Compete Cases Should (and Do) Settle

Settlements (Part 3 of 3): Dealing With a Defendant's Bankruptcy in Non-Compete Litigation

Settling A Sexual Harassment Case At the Illinois Human Rights Commission

Settling Gender Discrimination Class Actions (Part I)

Settling Gender Discrimination Class Actions (Part II)

Seventh Circuit Affirms Compensability of Donning/Doffing Time Under State Law Notwithstanding an Applicable Exception Under the FLSA

Seventh Circuit Concludes that "Travel Time" Following Clothing Change Is Not Compensable, Setting Up a Circuit Split

Seventh Circuit Upholds Weakening of Collective Bargaining Rights in Laborers Local 236 v. Walker

Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit California CEO a Second Time

Sexual Harassment Allegations Hit California CEO a Second Time

Sexual Harassment And The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sexual Harassment Case At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sexual Harassment Case At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sexual Harassment Cases At The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Sexual Harassment Cases At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sexual Harassment Cases At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Sexual Harassment in New York City - Part II

Sexual Harassment is Illegal: Know Your Rights

Sexual Harassment Tips For Chicago Employees

Sexual Orientation Cases At The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Share Florida�s Minimum Wage Will Increase on January 1 to $8.46 per Hour and $5.44 for Tipped Employees

Shift At DOJ's Civil Rights Division

Short Time Span Between Deposition and Disciplinary Action Support Claim of Retaliation

Should I File At The Illinois Human Rights Commission Or Circuit Court?

SHOULD MY CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER BE PAYING ME FOR THE TIME IT TAKES ME TO DRIVE TO WORK?

Should you be compensated for time spent putting on and taking off protective gear?

Should You File Your Sexual Harassment Case With The Illinois Department of Human Rights?

Should you limit bathroom breaks for employees?

SHOULD YOUR EMPLOYER BE PAYING YOU FOR THE TIME YOU SPEND IN A SECURITY LINE TO GET TO WORK IN LOS ANGELES?

Should Your Employer Pay You For Time Spent Changing Your Clothes?

Should Your Employer Pay You For Time Spent Changing Your Clothes?

Show this story to your employees who start clamoring for a union

Sick With Flu? Workers Have Few Rights

Sick With Flu? Workers Have Few Rights

Slater and Welenc: Are Public-Sector Employees 'Overpaid' Relative to Private Sector Employees? An Overview of the Studies

Slater on Public Sector Bargaining Rights

Slinn on Protected Concerted Activity in Canada & the U.S. During a Time of COVID

Small Business Owner Gives Employees Paid Sick Days. World Doesn't End. New Jersey Doesn't Go Bankrupt

Sneak Attack on Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Rights in Pennsylvania

Snowden Leak Highlights Few Whistleblower Protections for Intelligence Contract Employees

So Much to Do, So Little Time -- Court Approved "Overwork" Theory in Alberts v. Aurora Behavioral Health Care

Social Media Access Rights Raise Concerns Throughout Employment Cycle

Social Media Policies: Know Your Rights

Solidarity in Action: Unionists Across North America to Protest for Mexican Workers’ Rights

Sometimes, employees get what they deserve

Speech Rights of Public Employees: Contextualizing Garcetti

Speedy Trial Act Does Not Require Articulation of Ends-of-Justice Findings at Time Continuance Granted

Staffing Companies Face Potential Exposure For Interview Time

Stand by your employees: an ode to Norah and the Troopers

Standing up for your employees

Starbucks employees are trying to “kick down the door” across the entire food and beverage service industry

State Court Judge Declares Part of Immigration Law Unconstitutional

State Laws on Voting Leave Policy/Time Off to Vote

State Recreational Marijuana Use Laws Do Not Impact DOT Prohibition on Marijuana Use by Safety-Sensitive Transportation Employees

State Supreme Court Extends Workers' Compensation Liability to Subcontractor's Employees

Statistics Show Arbitration Unfair To Employees

Stiffing Corporate Lobbyists; Short-Time Work Salvation; Nurses on the Line

Stop Trying to Micro-Manage Employees' Use of Social Media

Study documents federal court bias against employees

Subcommittee Hearing Addresses Whistleblower, Victim's Rights Provisions in PAWA; Legislation Introduced to Continue VPP

Sullivan County, New York, adds whistleblower protection for its employees

Summer Jobs Part II

SUPERMARKET DISCRIMINATES AGAINST FEMALE EMPLOYEES. GENDER DISCRIMINATION IS AGAINST THE LAW IN CALIFORNIA.

Support for the CA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

Supporting our AAPI employees in their time of crisis

Supreme Court Clarifies Time Limitations in ERISA Cases

Supreme Court Closes The Courthouse Doors to Religious Employees

Supreme Court considers whistleblower protection for "ministerial employees"

Supreme Court deals another blow to employees on arbitration

Supreme Court deals another blow to employees on arbitration

Supreme Court Denies Review of "Half Time" Overtime Damages Calculation

Supreme Court Denies Review of Decision Holding Plaintiff Responsible for Recording Time Worked

Supreme Court eases path for employees to sue employers for discriminatory job transfers

Supreme Court Grants Cert to Review Compensability of Security Screening Time

Supreme Court Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Exempt Outside Sales Employees

Supreme Court Issues Decision On Key Whistleblower Rights Case

Supreme Court Limits State Employees' Protections Under FMLA

Supreme Court of Canada Concludes that Employees May Have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Relation to Their Work-Issued Computers

Supreme Court Raises the Burden of Proof for Employees in Age Discrimination Cases

Supreme Court Reaffirms That Summary Plan Documents Do Not Create Benefit Rights Different From Formal Plan Terms

Supreme Court Roundup Part One: McCutcheon v. FEC

Supreme Court Roundup Part Three: Harris v. Quinn

Supreme Court Roundup Part Two: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

Supreme Court rules employees broadly protected in employment discrimination cases in San Bernardino and elsewhere

Supreme Court Ruling Protects Employees Against Retaliation For Assisting Internal Sexual Harassment Investigations

Supreme Court Ruling Protects Employees Against Retaliation For Assisting Internal Sexual Harassment Investigations

Supreme Court Ruling Protects Employees Against Retaliation For Assisting Internal Sexual Harassment Investigations

Supreme Court Ruling Protects Employees Against Retaliation For Assisting Internal Sexual Harassment Investigations

Supreme Court to Decide Which Employees Are Covered by Whistleblower Law

Supreme Court To Determine Whether Employees Are Protected From Retaliation For Making Oral Complaints

Supreme Court to Examine Digital Privacy of Employees

Supreme Court Victory for Employees in Discrimination Case

Supreme Court: Collective Bargaining Agreements Can Waive Employees' Right to Trial by Jury

Supreme Court’s Decision On Health Care Law Creates Dozens of New Employee Rights

Supreme Ct. News Not All Bad for Employees This Term

Survey Says: LGBT Employees Should Announce Their Orientation

Survey Writing Tips to Get Honest Feedback from Your Employees

Symposium: International Trade, Worker Rights, and Development

System for employees to report unpaid time insulates company from wage and hour claim, says 6th Circuit

Taking An Employment Discrimination Case To the Illinois Human Rights Commission

Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees

Teacher, Activist Runs for Mayor — Now is the Hard Part

Teachers Under Fire: At least Nine States Propose Stripping Teachers of Collective Bargaining Rights

Telecommuting employees raise special wage and hour issues

Tell them to their face: firing employees (a lesson from State College, PA)

Tennessee Allows Tipped Employees to Waive Meal Breaks

Tenth Circuit Examines Time Spent Changing Clothes in Salazar v. Butterball

Testing employees for legally prescribes medications must be done carefully

Texas Federal Court Finds Direct Care Specialists Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Texas Supreme Court All But Kills Whistleblower Protection for Texas Employees

Thai v. Int’l Bus. Machines Corp: Court of Appeal Rules Employers Must Reimburse Employees for Work from Home Expenses

That Time Again

The 10 States With the Most Federal Government Employees

The 10 States With the Most Federal Government Employees

The 2024 California Law on Marijuana Testing of Employees and Job Applicants (AB 2188)

The 2024 California Law on Marijuana Testing of Employees and Job Applicants (AB 2188)

The 4 things you cannot do to pro-union employees (hint: number 1 is fire them)

The 9th Circuit Does Their Part On Oracle Case, Extending California Labor Laws

The Annoying Part About Innovation

The “cat’s paw” lives: Supreme Court issues broad victory for employees in Staub v. Proctor Hospital

The “New” Discrimination: Retaliation Based on Health Care Rights

The “when” of counting employees for damage caps in federal discrimination cases

The best time to settle a case

The BIG risk of misclassifying employees as independent contractors

The California Supreme Court Rules Employees Working in California Are Protected By California Overtime Laws in Sullivan v. Oracle

The Civil Rights Act – looking back, looking ahead

The Connecticut Supreme Court Holds that the FLSA Preempts State Travel Time Law

The EEOC on Lesbian/Gay Employees and Sex Discrimination

The EEOC on Transgender Employees and Sex Discrimination

The Federal Agency Designed to Protect Workers Is Trying to Destroy Unions and Weaken Labor Rights

The First Full Panel NLRB Decision In a Loooong Time

The Government is Here to Help, and this Time it Might Work

The Heat Wave Shows Climate Change Is a Workers’ Rights Issue

The Importance of Face Time for Promotion

The Janitor Non-Compete, This Time for Real

The Key to Protecting Your Rights: Understanding Employment Litigation Basics

The Labor Movement Is Ready to Ensure that Voting Rights Are Fully Restored

The Law on Accured Vacation Time

The legal reason why you shouldn’t force employees to turn over social media passwords

The legal reason why you shouldn’t force employees to turn over social media passwords

The legal reason why you shouldn’t force employees to turn over social media passwords

The legal reason why you shouldn’t force employees to turn over social media passwords

The Libya Intervention: Legality and Implications (Part I)

The Libya Intervention: Legality and Lessons (Part II)

The Libya Intervention: Legality and Lessons (Part III)

The NBA, Television Broadcasting Rights, and Collective Bargaining

The New Year Is A Good Time To Review The Enforceability Of Restrictive Covenants

The Ninth Circuit Issues Subsequent Opinion on Commuting Time and Off-the-Clock Issues

The NLRB is inching towards Weingarten Rights for all employees

The NLRB Rules that Employees Must Post About Right to Organize

The Power of One, Part Three: Lawyer as Advocate

The Power of One, Part Two: Lawyer as Counselor

The Power of One: Part One

The Proper Procedure for Facebook Discovery, Part I

The Reading List (No. 8): New Baby Arrives, But I Still Had Time to Read an Excellent Article

The Right to Quit - A New York Employees Most Powerful Right

THE RISKS OF PROVIDING REFERENCES FOR CURRENT OR EX EMPLOYEES

The Sins of the Children Visited – This Time – on Their Parents

The Supreme Court Identifies Medical Residents as Employees

The time has come to legislate gluten-free food

The time has come to limit the overuse and overbreadth of noncompetition agreements

The Time is NOW For The PRO Act To Protect Workers

The Tip Credit - An Employees Right to Minium Wage

The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

The U.S. Says No to Affirmative Action—Until It’s Time for War

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Most Important Decision Affecting the Law of Trusts & Estates Was Decided a Very Long Time Ago

The Unemployed Are Now Protected Under The New York City Human Rights Law

There's Still Time to Register

There’s nothing illegal about paying employees a “day rate,” as long as you also pay an overtime premium for overtime hours

THIS is how you respond to a group of employees organizing and forming a labor union

This is not a late April Fools’ joke: Employees strike over right to drink beer at work

This is what a retaliatory waiver of EEOC rights looks like

This is why I (almost) always recommend that employers provide terminated employees a reasonable severance package

This week in racism (part 2): Macklemore

Ticket Office Employees Sue The Redskins for Unpaid Overtime: Granted Collective/Class Status.

Ticket Office Employees Sue The Redskins for Unpaid Overtime: Granted Collective/Class Status.

Ticket Office Employees v. Washington Redskins

Ticket Office Employees v. Washington Redskins

Time "Rounding" and "Grace Period" Policies -- See's Candy Shops v. Superior Court

Time after time, time alone is not enough to prove retaliation

Time after time: temporal proximity and retaliation

Time Flies—and Noncompete Agreement Goes Out the Window.

Time for a Serious Conversation about Guns–and Those Who Use Them

Time for Baseball to Accept Review of Umpires’ Decisions

Time for Changes in the Policies of Major League Soccer

Time For More Executive Hard Time?

Time for the NHL to Consider Contraction

Time off to Vote

Time Sheet Fraud in Overtime Pay Cases

Time Sheet Fraud in Overtime Pay Cases

Time Spent Donning And Doffing Protective Clothing Is Compensable

Time Spent Waiting to Clear Security Not Compensable

Time to Finally Pass the Equal Rights Amendment?

Time to make sure your business has an Election Day plan. #vote

Time to Move Beyond the Board

Time to play Medical Costs Price is Right

Time to push back on the unsafe rush to reopen schools

Time to push back on the unsafe rush to reopen schools

Time to re-read your non-competition agreements; Ohio Supreme Court issues ruling on enforceability by successors

Time to Revise Your Internet Postings and Electronic Resources Policies (Again!)

Time to Wield the Foreign Policy Stick

Tips For The Fact-Finding Conference WIth The Illinois Department Of Human Rights

Title VII does not give employees the right to proselytize

Title VII does not give employees the right to proselytize

Today is “exempt employees work free” day

Top Ten Changes in the Legal Profession Since 1979, Part I

Top Ten Changes in the Legal Profession Since 1979, Part II

Tracking Remote Employees: How To Not Cross The Line

Trial At The Illinois Human Rights Commission Not The Only Alternative

Trial At The Illinois Human Rights Commission Or?

Trial Courts Have Discretion to Allow Disclosure of Employee Contact Information Without Prior Notice -- County of Los Angeles v. Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission, Service Employees Int'l Union Local 721

Triple Damages When The Employer Disputes Only Part of the Wages Claimed

Triple Damages When The Employer Disputes Only Part of the Wages Claimed

Trump plan to politicize key civil service jobs has run out of time

Trying A Sexual Harassment Case Before The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Two Courts of Appeals to Consider Legality of Paying Incentive Compensation to Fluctuating Workweek Employees

Two Dozen Muslim Kentucky Employees to File Discrimination Claims After Employer Fails to Let Them Pray

Two Illinois Holiday Inn Employees File Discrimination Lawsuit

Two Sacred Cows - Performance Appraisals and Job Descriptions - Time for the Scrap Heap?

Two Views of Constitutional Rights: Anti-Badgering Versus Informed Consent

Two-Part Series Seminar: Employment Verification Issues for Employers:

Tyson Pays $32 Million To Settle Lawsuit For Time Spent “Donning And Doffing” Personal Protective Equipment

Tyson Pays $32 Million To Settle Lawsuit For Time Spent “Donning And Doffing” Personal Protective Equipment

U.S. Attorney Files Civil Rights Suit Against New York School District

U.S. Chamber to Members: It’s Cool to Make Your Employees Work on Christmas

U.S. House of Representatives Passes Compensatory Time Amendment to Fair Labor Standards Act

U.S. Rated Alarmingly High in Global Survey of Worst Places for Workers’ Rights

U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Confirms Broader Construction Under New York City Human Rights Law

U.S. Steel Unionized Production and Maintenance Workers Not Entitled to Compensation for Time Spent Donning and Doffing

U.S. Supreme Agrees to Resolve Circuit Split Over ERISA Plan Reimbursement Rights

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Resolve Circuit Split Over ERISA Plan Reimbursement Rights

U.S. Supreme Court Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Exempt Outside Sales Employees

U.S. Supreme Court on Federal Employees' Access to Court

U.S. Supreme Court Protects Public Sector Employee's First Amendment Rights

U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Indiana Steel Mill Employees Cannot Be Paid for Time Spent Donning and Doffing Equipment in Sandifer v. U.S. Steel

U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Security Screening Time is Non-Compensable Under Federal Law and The Portal-to-Portal Act

U.S. Supreme Court to Determine Whether Time Spent Putting On and Removing Equipment for Work Should Be Compensated

Understanding employment rights

Unemployed Facing Discrimination in Santa Ana at the Worst Possible Time

Unemployment Compensation Case Update: Employees Who Accept Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Offers Are Eligible for Benefits

Union yes? Employees, be careful what you wish for.

Union-Haters Want to Make Public Employees Public Enemies

Unionization of Air Freight Ground Employees - NLRA or RLA?

Unions Can Require Their Members to Arbitrate Claims For Violation of Individual Statutory Rights -- 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett

United States Supreme Court Agrees to Review Whether Pregnancy Discrimination Act Requires ADA-Like Accommodations For Pregnant Employees

United States Supreme Court Holds That Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Extends to Employees of Private Companies Who Are Contractors or Subcontractors for Covered Public Companies

University of Minnesota sidesteps minimum wage violations for “volunteer” employees

Unknown Facts About The Illinois Human Rights Commission

Unpaid Intern Cannot Bring Sexual Harassment Claim Under NYC Human Rights Law, Judge Rules

Unstable employees, direct threats, and the ADA

Update: Break Time for Nursing Mothers under the FLSA

UPDATE: New York City Council Overrides Mayor Bloomberg's Veto And Enacts The Earned Sick Time Act Requiring Mandatory Paid Sick Leave

USCIS, Civil Rights Division Announce E-Verify Initiatives

USDA’s Civil Rights Infractions is Reminder to Fight Racial Discrimination in Irvine and Elsewhere

Usufructuary Rights and the Chippewa

Vacation (all I ever wanted) — 7 tips to encourage your employees to use their paid time off

Valley Hospital Has to Make Payments to Employees for Unpaid Overtime and Meal Breaks

Valley Hospital Has to Make Payments to Employees for Unpaid Overtime and Meal Breaks

Varying Independent Contractor Tests Apply to Maryland Employees

Varying Independent Contractor Tests Apply to Maryland Employees

Veterans Employment Rights

Violence in the Heartland, 1960-2012–Part One

Violence in the Heartland, 1960-2012–Part Two: Crime Wave or Aggravated Assault Wave?

Violence in the Heartland, Part III: City Trends

Violence in the Heartland, Part III: City Trends

Violence in the Heartland, Part IV–The Biggest Losers (and Gainers)

Violence in the Heartland, Part IV–The Biggest Losers (and Gainers)

Violence in the Heartland, Part V: Wisconsin’s Cities

Violence in the Heartland, Part VI: Cities Within the City

VIOLENCE IN THE WORKPLACE, PART 3

Volatility is the Word for It: First-Time Enemployment Claims Jump to 386,000

VW Chattanooga Employees Vote Against UAW Works Council

Wage Laws and Tipped Workers – What Are Your Rights?

Wage Laws and Tipped Workers – What Are Your Rights?

Wal-Mart settles workers' comp lawsuit with over 13K injured employees

Walmart wins discrimination claim brought on behalf of pregnant employees unable to work

Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Amicus Brief in Nassar

Washington Post Reports Federal Contractor Gagged Employees

Wasted Time and Wasted Perfume Can Lead to Trouble

Wasted Time and Wasted Perfurme Can Lead to Trouble

Waterstone et al. Review Bagenstos's Book on Disability Rights

We are failing our trans employees

We ♥ our phones, but should employees be paid for using them off-duty?

Webinar: Labor Rights Under the USMC (the new NAFTA)

Weighing in on Wal-Mart - Part Four – Issue Class Certification

Weighing in on Wal-Mart - Part One - The Governmental Approach

Weighing in on Wal-Mart - Part Three – Revised Relief

Weighing in on Wal-Mart - Part Two - The Procedural Approach

West Virginia High Court Approves Drug Testing of Safety Sensitive Employees

Western Ontario Law's Labour Law Lecture & Conference 2013: Rights at Work

WF Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Restrict LGBTQ+ Rights

What can go wrong when employees date?

What can I do if someone associated with my workers' comp case violates my health information privacy rights?

What Can Unions Do Now to Defend Abortion Rights?

What Causes People to Be Successful in Their Careers? Part III: Effective Speech Making

What Causes People to Be Successful in Their Careers? Part IV: Effective Speech Making—Word Choice, Style, and Language Sophistication

What Causes People to Be Successful in Their Careers? Part II: Effective Listening

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part I

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part II: (Dis)Orientation

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part III

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part IV

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part V

What I Wish I Had Known When I Started Law School, Part VI

What Lakefront Reveals About the Public Trust Doctrine, Standing to Enforce Public Rights, and Possession in Property Law

What Rights Pregnant Freelancers Have

What Service Employees Need to Know

What Should Be Done with Legal Education? (Part IV)

What Should Be Done With Legal Education? (Part II)

What Should Be Done With Legal Education? (Part III)

What you need to know about monitoring employees off-duty social networking activity

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 10

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 11

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 12

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 2

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 3

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 4

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 5

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 6

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 7

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 8

What's Wrong With The Senate Whistleblower Bill? - Part 9

What’s really at stake when the Supreme Court decides LGBTQ rights under Title VII

Whats Wrong with Paying Employees their Legal Wage?

WHD Issues Final Rule Implementing Requirement that Service Contract Employees Be Given Right of First Refusal

When a Disabled Worker Needs Time Off

When Creditors Come Knocking: Asset Protection Tips for Employees

When Creditors Come Knocking: Asset Protection Tips for Employees

When Do Salaried Employees Qualify for Overtime Pay?

When Employees Die, Who Gets Their Last Paycheck?

When Employees Pretend to be Customers: FTC Enforces Rules for Online Reviews

When merely considering your rights can get you fired!

When retaliation stands the test of time

When Should Employees Be Paid For Pre- and Post-Shift Time?

Whether you like it or not, it’s illegal to discriminate against transgender employees

While I was away, Congress pumped life into workplace rights of pregnant employees and new moms

Whistle-blowing Case filed by Two Terminated Employees in Kentucky

Whistleblower Protections for Federal Government Contractor Employees

Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillance of Employees

Whistleblowers Expose FDA's Illegal Surveillance of Employees

Who owns social media accounts? (part 2)

Who Pays Attorney Fees At The Illinois Human Rights Commission?

Why companies based on gig work are hurting more than their employees

Why Do Ideas Have Such a Hard Time Surviving at Work?

Why Does Idaho’s Governor Pay Female Employees So Much Less Than Men?

Why employees are quitting might also tell you why they are unionizing

Why employees sue

Why FIle At The Chicago Commission On Human Rights

Why isn’t Racine part of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Statistical Area?

Why You Should Know Your Rights Under FMLA

Why You Should Let Your Employees Work from Home

Will Financial Regulation Make Us Safe? (Part II)

Will Financial Regulation Make Us Safe? (Part III)

Will the Supreme Court Overrule Farmworker Union Rights?

Willborn on Enforcing LEL Rights

Winning Your Age Discrimination Lawsuit At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

winning Your Sexual Harassment Case At The Illinois Human Rights Commission

WIRTW #264 (the “never go to work, part 2” edition)

WIRTW #287 (the “save me, San Francisco, part 2” edition)

WIRTW #287 (the “save me, San Francisco, part 2” edition)

WIRTW #287 (the “save me, San Francisco, part 2” edition)

Wisconsin Federal Court Holds that Gap Time Claims Are not Cognizable Under the FLSA

Wisconsin’s Local Governments Face a Time Crunch in Redrawing Boundaries

With Democrats in Full Control, It’s Time to Pass the PRO Act

With social media, all of your employees are brand ambassadors; train them accordingly

WOMEN WIN SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND RETALIATION CLAIM. CA EMPLOYEES HAVE THE LAW ON THEIR SIDE.

Women, Black Workers Hard Hit by Attacks on Public Employees

Work From Home scams: How to Protect Your Employees During Pandemic

Work Time

Worker Rights are Critical to the Future of Ukraine

Workers Rights' Legal Clinic at the University of Maryland School of Law

Working Away Their Childhoods: Young Farmworkers Robbed of Rights

Workplace Camera Doesn't Violate Employee Privacy Rights

Workplace Rights of Religious Institution Employees to be Determined by Supreme Court

Workplace Violence Is Not Part of the Job – A Nursing Phenomenon

Workplace Violence Is Not Part of the Job – A Nursing Phenomenon

Year-End Roundup of EEOC Developments - Part I

Year-End Roundup of EEOC Developments - Part II

Yes, Abortion Rights Are a Union Issue 

Yes, you can still fire employees for lying, even when they are seeking FMLA leave

Yes, You Get Paid For Both Hours When Daylight Saving Time Ends

You cannot fire an employee who asks for time off for his pregnant wife's medical appointment

You May Not Be Within the Class of Employees That Can Be Covered by a Non-Compete Agreement.

You May Not Be Within the Class of Employees That Can Be Covered by a Non-Compete Agreement.

You Say Let's Talk Severance/Your Employer Hears I Quit (Or, Employees Are From Pluto, Employers Are From Uranus)

Your employees are BYODing, whether you like it or not

Your employees are BYODing, whether you like it or not

Your Employer May Need To Pay You For Time Spent On Your Smartphone

Your Employer May Need To Pay You For Time Spent On Your Smartphone

Your front-line employees are not security guards

Your Legal Rights During The Hiring Process

Your location is not the only thing an iPhone might be tracking—DOL releases wage and hour app for employees

Your Rights Regarding Pre-employment Credit Checks

Your Workplace Rights During Natural Disasters and Emergencies