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Coronavirus Update 9-1-2020: Vaccines — can an employer require them; should an employer require them?

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District Court Reversed Where It Refused To Allow Plaintiff Any Discovery and Granted Summary Judgment for Employer

DLSE Issues Opinion Permitting Employer Deductions of Vacation and/or Sick Leave for Absences of Less Than Four Hours

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

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Do you know? Overtime for non-exempt commissioned employees

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

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Employees, the Firm, and Corporation

Employees: HR is NOT Necessarily There to Help You

Employer Access to Salary History Helps Explain Gender & Racial Wage Gaps

Employer Bill of Rights is (finally) available for Kindle

Employer Cannot Unilaterally Reduce Promised Commission Rates -- McCaskey v. California State Automobile Association

Employer Challenges to Developing and Enforcing Social Media/Web 2.0 Policies

Employer Compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act: Recent Study

Employer correctly fires employee for posting racist meme, court says

Employer Criminally Prosecuted for Under-reporting Wages and for Immigration Violations

Employer Cutbacks Costing Kentucky and Indiana Employees

Employer Defeats Class Action Regarding Rounding and Overtime Pay

Employer Liability for An Employee Accident Occurring During Commute Home?

Employer Liability for Injury Suffered En Route to Doctor?

Employer Loses Case after Retaliating against Harassment Victim’s Supervisor

Employer May Be Required To Allow Disabled Employee To Telecommute

Employer May Terminate Disabled Employee for Threatening Conduct Even if Caused by Disability

Employer Must Conduct An Individualized Inquiry Of Actual Disability

Employer Must Take Corrective Action to Cure Third-Party Harassment

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

Employer not required to tell class counsel which job applicants had marijuana convictions

Employer Permitted to Use “After-Acquired” Evidence at Discrimination Trial

Employer Prevails in Class Action Alleging Incomplete Wage Statements

Employer SLAPPed for Suing Ex-Employee

Employer Takeover of Employee's LinkedIn Account Does Not Violate Federal Computer Hacking Law, Question of Ownership Remains

Employer Tax Credit Incentive For Hiring The Unemployed

Employer Unable To Condition ERISA Severance Payments on Signing Undisclosed Non-Compete

Employer Who Sues Ex-Employee Does Not Have to "Indemnify" Ex-Employee for His Attorney Fees

Employer Wins Retaliation Lawsuit in Niswander v. Cincinnati Insurance Co.

Employer's Pretextual Reasons For Discharge Warranted Liquidated Damages for FMLA Violation, Sixth Circuit Rules

Employer's brief in New Process Steel

Employer's Brief in New Process Steel

Employer's Statements About Limiting Scope of Non-Compete Barred by Parol Evidence (New Life Cleaners v. Tuttle)

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! 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 Honoring An Unenforceable Noncompete Agreement With Prior Employer -- Silguero v. Creteguard, Inc.

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

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’ summer of discontent: Obama labor board pushes anti-employer agenda

Employment Lawsuit against Restaurant Chain Claims Employees Were Underpaid

Employment rights of employees who have been arrested

Encourage your Employees to Improve with our Employee Performance Improvement Plan

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

Equity Incentive Plans: Compensating Key Employees

Even Teenage Seasonal Employees Can Experience Kentucky Employment Discrimination

Even though this employer won its ex-employee’s retaliation lawsuit, PLEASE don’t do what it did

Everything an Employer Could Ask For in One Decision on Class Action Waivers

Ex-Starbucks manager throws employer under the bus for its alleged anti-union retaliation

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

Expected Executive Order Protecting LGBT Employees has Implications for Employers

Facebook Photos Ends FMLA Lawsuit In Favor of Employer

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

Failure to advise employer of a disability dooms employee’s ADA claim

Failure to Present Employee With Contemplated Non-Compete Agreement Fatal to Employer's Claim (Workflow Solutions v. Lewis)

Failure To Stop Customer Harassment Of Workers May Consitute Employer Negligence

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

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

Federal court allow for employer docking from an exempt employee’s PTO bank without violating the FLSA

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 Employees – Discipline / Removal

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

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE

Federal Jury Finds Executive Recruiter Guilty Stealing Trade Secrets From Former Employer In Order to Start Competing Business

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

Female Employees Sue Goldman Sachs for Sex Discrimination

Fifth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Win for Employees

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

Final rule on waiting periods for employer-sponsored healthcare plans

Financial Literacy in the Workplace: Empowering Employees

Fired for posing for Playboy? Or, how does an employer prove a negative?

Fired for suing an ex-employer? Court rejects public policy claim

Firing Squad Photo Sends Chilling Message to ATF Employees

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

Florida Law for Employer Defamation

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

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 coverage vs. eligibility: Employer notice and recordkeeping requirements

FMLA to Cover Leave for Gay Partners of Federal Employees

Following doctor’s orders helps employer win ADA case

Food Safety Bill Contains Whistleblower Protections for Industry Employees

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

Furious to Curious: 7 Signs You’re Intimidated by Your Employer (… and How to Overcome It)

GAY EMPLOYEE SUES EMPLOYER FOR HARASSMENT

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

Government Employer May Read Employee Text Messages, Says Supreme Court

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

Graduate Students To Be Considered Employees Under the NLRA Again?

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

Green on Against Employer Dumpster Diving for E-Mail

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

H-1B Cap: Critical Filing Dates for FY 2015 Requiring Immediate Employer Action

H-1B Worker Wins Injunction Requiring Employer Sponsorship

Have you cast your vote yet for the Worst Employer(s) of 2020?

Health Care Reform for Employers and Employees

Health Care Reform: What Every Employer Must Do to Prepare For Coming Change

Healthcare Overhaul Bills Vary in their Impact on the Number of Individuals Obtaining Employer-Provided Coverage, Employer Penalties

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

Hearsay and Statements by Employer's Agents

HELP: MY CA EMPLOYER WANTS A DNA SAMPLE!

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

HISPANIC EMPLOYEES SUBJECTED TO A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Hodge on Employees as Stakeholders in EU Countries

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

Honoring National Disability Employment Awareness Month on the Proactive Employer podcast

Hospital Workers Fight Job Cuts at Duluth’s Biggest Employer

Hostess Uses The Twinkie Defense to Shift Blame to Employees

House Approves Bill Granting Food Industry Employees Whistleblower Rights

House Panel Discusses Potential Revision to Joint Employer Standard

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

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 Businesses Can Better Care For Their Female Employees

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

How do you respond when your employees are threatened?

How does an injured worker in Atlanta choose a doctor?

How Empowering Employees Leads to Workplace Growth

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

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

How to Engage Employees in Hybrid Work Models

How to Find an Inclusive Employer in the Hybrid Work Era

How to Help Employees Adjust To Remote Work

How to Help Your Employees Become More Productive

How To Sue Your Employer: Courtesy of the EEOC

How will the Rejection of DOMA Affect Maryland Employees?

Hypothetical violations doom employer confidentiality policy

I DRIVE MY CAR FOR COMPANY-RELATED BUSINESS. DOES MY CA EMPLOYER NEED TO REIMBURSE ME?

I have zero sympathy for insubordinate employees who are fired

I'M A VOLUNTEER INTERN, SHOULD MY CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER BE PAYING ME?

I’M A MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER, CAN MY CA EMPLOYER FIRE ME FOR DRUG USE?

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

I’m syndicated! Announcing my launch on Workforce.com as The Practical Employer

If an Employee Works Unauthorized Overtime, is the Employer still Obligated to Pay for it?

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

If I work unapproved overtime, does my employer still have to pay me for it?

If I'm on workers' compensation disability in Georgia, am I required to see the panel doctor?

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

If You Complain To Your Employer About Overtime Pay Violations, Are You Protected From Retaliation?

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 caught sunbathing nude, on the roof of your elementary school-employer, don't sue for retaliation

If you’re tired of reading about the Worst Employer voting, you can now listen to me talk about it

If your surveilling employees, the NLRB is watching you

ILLEGALLY CLASSIFYING EMPLOYEES AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

Illinois Supreme Court Recognizes Privacy Tort & Holds Employer Liable Under Agency Law

Important New Joint Employer Decision: Corporate Parents Responsible for Employment Violations by Wholly-Owned, Controlled Subsidiaries

Improper Use of Criminal Background Information in Making Hiring Decisions Can Land an Employer in Hot Water!

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

In the wake of the California Supreme Court's Harris Decision, A FEHA Claimant Must Show Discrimination was a "Substantial Motivating Factor" and An Employer Waives its Mixed-Motive Defense by Failing to Assert It in Its Answer

Indemnifying Employees

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

Individual Owner of Successor Employer May be Liable for Minimum Wage Violations Committed by Predecessor Employer

Insensitive Employer of the Week: Senor Whitten

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

Insurance Company's Failure to Consider Treating Doctor's Opinions Is Arbitrary

IRS Issues Final ACA Employer Mandate Rule

IRS Provides Guidance on HIRE Act's Employer Tax Benefits, Issues Draft Affidavit Form

IRS Provides Updated Guidance on the Use of Employer-Provided Cell Phones

Is an employer obligated to provide light duty to an employee returning from FMLA leave?

Is Employer-Ordered Counselling an Adverse Employment Action?

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

Is It Legal for an Employer to Secretly Track an Employee's Personal Vehicle 24/7 for One Month? Perhaps!

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

IS YOUR CA EMPLOYER FORCING YOU TO ARBITRATE EVEN IF YOU DIDN’T SIGN AN ARBITRATION CLAUSE?

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

Jason Tremblay presents on what businesses with employees must know

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

Join me Friday on the Proactive Employer Podcast

Joint-Employer Hearing

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

Jury Finds Medical Center Discriminated Against Muslim Doctor

Just Another Battle Between Employers and Employees . . . .

Just because an employer wins summary judgment doesn’t mean you should emulate its behavior

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 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: Employer Failed To Show Injured Employee Unreasonably Failed To Follow Medical Advice

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

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

Labor: Developing formal orientation programs for new employees

LAID OFF EMPLOYEES IN SACRAMENTO REGION SUCCESSFULLY FINDING NEW JOBS

Last Call! Third Circuit Court of Appeals Rules That Employer Can Terminate Employee For Violating Strict No Alcohol Return to Work Agreement

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?

Legislation Limiting Employer Use of Credit Reports Pending in California

Legislation seeks to ban employer use of employee social media passwords

Legislation Would Greatly Expand Number of Employees Subject to Overtime

Less Than 15 Employees? There's Always Immigration Discrimination

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

Like herpes, the NLRB’s efforts to liberalize its joint employer standard just won’t go away

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

Loss Prevention Often Lies to Employees

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

MAKE SURE YOUR CA EMPLOYER IS PAYING YOU FOR OVERTIME

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

Making Eye Contact

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

Man Who Took Husband's Last Name May Maintain Sex Discrimination Case Against Employer

Manage your employees efficiently with our Employee Forms

Managers May Not Escape Personal Liability Under the FLSA Even if the Presumed "Employer" Files For Bankruptcy

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

Mark Spognardi writes Employers’ Summer of Discontent: Obama Labor Board pushes anti-employer agenda

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

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 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

Medal of Honor Winner Brings Suit in San Antonio for Defamation by Employer

Medical Assistant May Bring Sexual Discrimination Claim Against Employer

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

Mesothelioma: Employer had duty to protect employee's family

Metro employees already have whistleblower protections

Metro employees' union reports on NTSSA protections

Metro report finds employees afraid to raise safety concerns

Metson Revisited - "Artificial" Workweek Permissible in California if Employer Can Demonstrate a Bona Fide Business Reason

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

MIGRANT WORKERS SUE EMPLOYER UNDER MSPA AND WIN MILLIONS

Misclassifying Employees As Exempt Violates Federal Law

More Government Talk: This Time to Your Employees

More on educating your employees about being “profersonal”

MUSLIM AND MOROCCAN MAN DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY HIS CA EMPLOYER

Must an employer accommodation an employee for a family member’s disability?

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

MUST MY EMPLOYER PROVIDE ME WITH REASONABLE ACCOMODATIONS FOR MY MEDICAL DISABILITY?

Must you pay your employees for civic and charitable work?

Must you tell employees when you are surveilling their devices?

MY BOSS IS HAVING AN AFFAIR AT WORK: CAN I SUE MY CA EMPLOYER?

MY CA EMPLOYER MADE ACCOMODATIONS FOR MY DISABILTY, BUT THEN HE TOOK THEM AWAY!

MY CO-WORKER ASSUALTED ME! IS MY CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER RESPONSIBLE?

MY CO-WORKER GOT DRUNK AT AN OFFICE PARTY AND CRASHED INTO MY CAR. IS MY CA EMPLOYER LIABLE?

MY EMPLOYER IS MAKING ME TAKE A DRUG TEST --- IS THAT LEGAL?

My Georgia workers' compensation doctor sucks. Can I get another opinion?

My workers' comp doctor has suggested fusion surgery. Can this be risky?

New Bill Would Raise Minimum Wage for Tipped Employees

New Case Allows Employer to Potentially Avoid Attorneys’ Fees In FLSA Cases

New Disability Insurance Law Should Help Maryland Employees

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

New Employer-Side L&E Blog

New Hampshire Employer Alert: Notice Required for Non-Compete Agreements

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 Littler Report Concerning EEOC's Updated Guidance on Employer Use of Criminal Background Checks

New Maryland Law Requires Shift Breaks for Retail Employees

New Medical Marijuana Laws Threaten to Clash With Employer Zero Tolerance Drug Policies

New Philadelphia Ordinance Restricts Employer Inquiries About Applicants' Criminal Convictions

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 Whistleblower Legislation Instituted by Federal Government Good for Kentucky Employees

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

New York Courts Favor Early Disclosure of Employee Contact Info in FSLA Actions

New York Employees are Protected from Retaliaton

New York Employees are Shackled by Old Chains

New York Salaried Employees Are Entitled to Overtime Pay

New York Significantly Expands Protections For Employees Under Whistleblower Laws

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

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 - Inconsistency Costs Employer Summary Judgment

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

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

Ninth Circuit Delivers Blow to Employer in Independent Contractor Classification Case

Ninth Circuit Finds Employment Agreement Ambiguous As To Whether An Employee's "Ideas" Were Assigned To Employer

Ninth Circuit Holds Oregon Employer Cannot Credit Housing Costs Toward Minimum Wage

Ninth Circuit Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps are Exempt Administrative Employees

Ninth Circuit Upholds Certification of Class of Over 1.5 Million Employees

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

Ninth Circuit: Everyone's an Employer under FLSA

Nixon-Tinkelman v. New York City Dep’t of Health and Mental Hygiene Determines Employer May Be Required To Help With Commute Under The ADA

NJ Inadvertently Eliminates Its Exemption for Commissioned Sales Employees

NLRB agrees that employees cannot waive right to class actions

NLRB Applies Hoffman To Employer That Knowingly Violated Immigration Laws

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

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

NLRB Finds That McDonalds Is a Joint Employer and Can Be Named in Worker Complaints

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 Joint-Employer Standard

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

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

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

NLRB seeks to supersize its joint-employer standard

NLRB Specialty Healthcare bargaining unit standard withstands employer challenge

NLRB Sues Employer for Firing Employee Over Facebook Post

NLRB to Expand Outreach Campaign Targeting Nonunion Employees

NLRB upholds employer-union pre-recognition agreement.

No Employer Liability for Employee’s Accident on Way Home

No Self-care FMLA Protection for State Employees

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

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

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

NYC Employment Discrimination Cases get Better for Employees

O'Brien on The Top Ten NLRB Cases on Facebook Firings and Employer Social Media Policies

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 Employer Law Blog

Ohio Employer's Law Blog

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

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

OLMS to Contact Employers and Their Attorneys Regarding Persuader Agreement Reporting Obligations

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

Oregon Minimum Wage for Agricultural Employees Poster

Oregon Minimum Wage for Agricultural Employees Poster Revision

OSHA Begins its National Emphasis Program to Check the Accuracy of Employer Injury and Illness Recordkeeping

OSHA Memo Cautions Against Certain Employer Safety Programs

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

OSHA: Absence on doctor's order was protected activity

Over Half of Departing Employees Steal Proprietary Data, Study Finds

Overtime Pay Required For Blackberry Use by Non-Exempt Employees

Overtime Wages When Carrying and Using a Pager or Cell Phone After-hours for Your Employer

Owner May be Liable for Race Discrimination Under "Joint Employer" Theory

Paid Donor Leave for California Employees

Paul Starkman article on expansion of employer liability by Supreme Court appears in recent edition of Inside Counsel

Paul Starkman discusses proposed first genetic testing rule imposed by an employer

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

Payroll Company Not an "Employer" for Wage Hour Purposes

PBGC Proposes Rule to Clarify its Regulations on Liability for Termination of Single-Employer Plans

Pending Law Will Ban Employer Facebook Password Queries

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

Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Exempt Administrative Employees, Seventh Circuit Holds

Pickering Free Speech Rights and Cyberbullying by Public Employees

Pizza Does Not Motivate Employees More Than Cash

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

Policy To Automatically Fire Employees After Using Up Leave Violates ADA

Postal workers complain of poor COVID-19 precautions, lack of contact tracing

Potty mouthed employees

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

PPACA Update: Employer Shared Responsibility Mandate Delayed Again...For Some Employers, But Not All

PPACA Update: Employer Shared Responsibility Mandate Delayed Until 2015

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

Private Employer Can Deny Employment to Applicant Who Filed Bankruptcy

Problems with Employer-Based Health Care

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

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

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

Putting Me and Other Employer's Lawyers Out of Work

Q: My Employer Has Offerred Me Severance In Exchange for Signing a Waiver. What Should I Do?

Questions Raised About Immigration-Related Employer Audits

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

Recent decision about a positive drug test has a lot to say about the future of medical marijuana and employer drug testing

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

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

Religious Discrimination in Employment Case Settlement: Employer Compels Employee To Engage in Scientology Practices as a Condition of Employment

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

Remind Your Employees to Wash Their Hands with Hand Washing Posters

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

Rescinding Non-compete Agreements after the Employer's Breach

Retaliation By Employer In Chicago For Not Going Out With The Boss

Retaliation Claim Brought Against Employer Ends in Settlement with DOJ

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

Retaliation in Chicago Against Employees Who Cooperate With Investigations

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

Right to Vote without Employer Interference or Threat of Discharge

S. CT: Disparate Impact Claims Start To Run When Results of Job Test Applied by Employer

Safe Harbor Rule for Small Employer Remittances to 401(k)

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

Sanders on Multi-Employer Bargaining

Saving Small Employer Health Insurance

Say it ain’t so: court holds an employer does not have to accommodate a pregnant employee

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

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

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

Second-Guessing an Employer's Response to Harassment

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

Secunda on Employer Pressure to Vote Republican

Secunda on Sex Stereotyping Claims by Gay 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 Advances Healthcare Bill: Revised Bill Increases Small Business Tax Credits, Includes Employer Penalty for Failing to Offer Insurance

Senate Approves Employer Tax Credits for Hiring Veterans

Senate Committee Will Examine Pro-Employer Supreme Court Decisions

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

Senators Ask DOJ, EEOC to Investigate Legality of Employer Social Media Login, Password Requests

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

Seventh Circuit Finds That Employer Provided Reasonable Accommodation to Legally Blind Employee

Sexual Harassment Tips For Chicago Employees

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

Shnister: Professional Employer Organizations & Workplace Benefits

Should I bother filing a workers' compensation claim in Georgia when my employer has no insurance?

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

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?

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

Shredding documents during litigation is a bad, bad idea (a “Worst Employer" nominee update)

Sixth Circuit Finds That Employer Who Terminated Employee Due to Her Romantic Relationship Is Not Liable in Stevens v. Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc.

Sixth Circuit Upholds Dismissal of EEOC Suit Against Employer Screening Applicants Based on Credit History Information

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

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

Snowden Leak Highlights Few Whistleblower Protections for Intelligence Contract Employees

Social Media and the Employer

Sometimes, employees get what they deserve

SOX Whistleblower Must Actually Believe Employer's Conduct Was Illegal, Says Eleventh Circuit

Speech Rights of Public Employees: Contextualizing Garcetti

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 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

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

Study documents federal court bias against employees

Stupid Employer Tricks - Take 62

SUFFERING FROM SHINGLES? DO NOT LET YOUR LOS ANGELES EMPLOYER USE YOUR MEDICAL DISABILITY AS A REASON TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST YOU.

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

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

Supporting our AAPI employees in their time of crisis

Suprem Court Holds That Employer's Offer Moots FLSA Class Action Prior To Certification

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 eases path for employees to sue employers for discriminatory job transfers

Supreme Court Finds No Pregnancy or Sex Discrimination Based upon Employer's Prior Pension Credit Policy

Supreme Court hears argument on employer liability in Staub v. Proctor Hospital

Supreme Court Holds Employer Liable for Discrimination Under Cat's Paw Theory

Supreme Court Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Exempt Outside Sales Employees

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

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Employer in Age Discrimination Case

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

Supreme Court Sides with Employer in Sexting Case

Supreme Court to Decide When Employer is Liable for Actions of Officials Who Influence - But Do Not Make - Challenged Adverse Decision

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 To Help Define Who Is An Employer

Supreme Court Upholds Public Employer's Search of Employee Text Messages

Supreme Court Victory for Employees in Discrimination Case

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

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

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

Target Wall Street Greed, Not Public Employees

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

Testing employees for legally prescribes medications must be done carefully

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

Texas Legislature May Take Up Issue of Employer Access to Employee Social Media Accounts

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

The 10 States With the Most Federal Government Employees

The 10th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the transphobic terminator

The 10th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the sex offender supervisor

The 10th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the jack(a$$) in the box

The 11th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the horrific human traffickers

The 11th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the Cosby Suite

The 11th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the cable guy

The 12th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the Pregnancy Prognosticator

The 12th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the hurricane haranguer

The 13th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the Abortion Forcer

The 13th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the slaughtering supervisor

The 14th (and final) nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the slumlord supervisor

The 14th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the Singing Supervisor

The 15th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the (Not) Better Boss

The 18th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the fecal loving fast-food manager

The 19th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the barbaric boss

The 1st nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the repeat, repeat offender

The 1st nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021" is … the bogus bonus payor

The 1st nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the crashing chief

The 1st nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the foul-mouthed retaliat

The 1st nominee for the Worst Employer of 2024 is … the S&M CEO

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

The 20th nominee for the “worst employer of 2019” is … the malignant mogul

The 2nd nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the uncaring chief

The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the stillbirthing leave spurner

The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the claim-filing clinic

The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the enslaving employer

The 2nd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the child labor abuser

The 2nd nominee for the Worst Employer of 2024 is … the stone-cold stunner

The 3rd nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the arresting retaliator

The 3rd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the pregnant pauser

The 3rd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the cancerous employment canceler

The 3rd nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the awful accommodator

The 3rd nominee for the Worst Employer of 2024 is … the supersized sex offender

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

The 4th nominee for the “worst employer of 2020” is … the perverted Peking-duck purveyor

The 4th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the socially distant mass discharger

The 4th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the WTF racist

The 4th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the pizza shop pressurizer

The 4th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2024 is … the repulsive raisin-maker

The 5th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the safety ignorer

The 5th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the sh**ty superior

The 5th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the dog dumper

The 5th nominee for the Worst Employer of 2024 is … the abhorrent optometrist

The 6th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the deportation threatener

The 6th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the sexual harassment ignorer

The 6th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the defecation denier

The 7th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the penny pincher

The 7th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the murder enabler

The 7th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the pretend priest

The 8th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the vaccine vetoer

The 8th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … Vince McMahon

The 8th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the head hunter

The 9th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2021” is … the enslaving employer

The 9th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2022” is … the active shooter

The 9th nominee for the “Worst Employer of 2023” is … the cake boss

The ADA never requires an employer to create a position as a reasonable accommodation

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The “Penny Pincher” gets sued for retaliation — an update on a 2021 Worst Employer finalist

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

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 Cat's Paw Rule Extends Employer Liability Into the Back Office

The Coronavirus, Sick Leave, Working at Home and Potential Employer Liability

The EEOC on Lesbian/Gay Employees and Sex Discrimination

The EEOC on Transgender Employees and Sex Discrimination

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The Florida Employer (Summer 2008) (pdf).

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The Florida Employer Fall 2013

The Florida Employer Fall 2014

The Florida Employer Spring 2012

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The NLRB is inching towards Weingarten Rights for all employees

The NLRB Rules that Employees Must Post About Right to Organize

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

THE RISKS OF PROVIDING REFERENCES FOR CURRENT OR EX EMPLOYEES

The Supreme Court Identifies Medical Residents as Employees

The Tip Credit - An Employees Right to Minium Wage

The Truth About Public Employees, the New Convenient Scapegoats

The Worst Employer of 2019 is…

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

Third Circuit Clarifies "Joint Employer" Test Under FLSA

Third Circuit Explains Joint Employer Status Under FLSA as "Significant Control" over Essential Terms and Conditions of Employment

Third Circuit Explains Joint Employer Status Under FLSA on "Significant Control" over Essential Terms and Conditions of Employment

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

Thomas and Molk on Employer Costs and Conflicts under the Affordable Care Act

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

Ticket Office Employees v. Washington Redskins

Tip-Pooling â Can My Employer Take My Tips and How?

Title VII does not give employees the right to proselytize

To Compel Arbitration Under Federal Arbitration Act, Employer Must Prove It Applies

Today is “exempt employees work free” day

Tracking Remote Employees: How To Not Cross The Line

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

Two Big Employer Title VII Wins at the Supreme Court Today

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit Holds Employer Liable for Age Discrimination Based on its Contractor's Conduct

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

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?

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

Unstable employees, direct threats, and the ADA

Urine trouble: Ohio Supreme Court to decide whether an employer can require “direct observation” of a workplace urine-sample collection

USCIS Memo Outlines Employer-Employee Relationship for H-1B Purposes

USCIS Publishes Revised Employer Handbook on Form I-9

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

Vance v. Ball St. narrows employer liability for harassment

Varying Independent Contractor Tests Apply to Maryland Employees

Verdict Report: Doctor Awarded $3.6 Million for Discrimination and Retaliation

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VW Chattanooga Employees Vote Against UAW Works Council

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 Post Reports Federal Contractor Gagged Employees

Washington Supreme Court Decision May Spur Joint Employer Class Actions

We are failing our trans employees

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

Weighing the Pros and Cons of Employer Wellness Programs

West Virginia High Court Approves Drug Testing of Safety Sensitive Employees

What amount of unemployment tax does a Maryland Employer pay for each employee in a year?

What Business Owners Need To Know About To Comply With The ACA Employer Mandate

What can go wrong when employees date?

What can I do if the workers' comp insurer denies a medical referral from my doctor?

What Constitutes "Sufficient Notice" To An Employer Of Sexual Harassment?

What does an employer have to do to lose $366 million?!

What does the ADA have to say about employer inquires about prescription drugs

What happens when my workers' compensation doctor says I'm at MMI (maximum medical improvement) in Georgia?

WHAT KINDS OF QUESTIONS CAN MY EMPLOYER ASK ME ABOUT MY HEALTH?

What Provisions Does the Employer Need In Its Non-Compete Agreeement?

What Service Employees Need to Know

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

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 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 Is A Supervisor Also An Employer?

When Should Employees Be Paid For Pre- and Post-Shift Time?

When Your Employer Asks You to Work from Home! Are You Prepared?

Where Employer Induced Employee to Accept Employment by Subsidizing Employee's Commute, the Employee's Death While Commuting Was Compensable under Kentucky Workers Compensation Law

Whether you like it or not, it’s illegal to discriminate against transgender employees

While I Am in the Land of Aloha, the Legislature Permits Guns on Employer Parking Lots Premises

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

Who are this year’s crop of nominees for The Worst Employer of 2021? Check out today’s episode of Hostile Work Environment to find out.

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Who is a "Management Level Employee" for Imputing Notice of Co-worker Harassment to an Employer?

Who is An Employer or Employee Under The FLSA?

Who Is An Employer Under The ADEA?

Who owns personal email on an employer-issued smartphone?

Who owns social media accounts—the employer or employee?

Who Pays Seaman's Attorney's Fee When Employer Refuses Medical Treatment?

Why companies based on gig work are hurting more than their employees

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 You Should Let Your Employees Work from Home

Widespread Employer Under-Reporting to OSHA

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With a Friend Like Justice Scalia ... Cat's Paw Decision Not Very Employer Friendly

With social media, all of your employees are brand ambassadors; train them accordingly

WOMAN FIRED FOR CALLING IN SICK TO CARE OF HER DAUGHTER SUES HER EMPLOYER AND WINS.

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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

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Workplace Rights of Religious Institution Employees to be Determined by Supreme Court

Worst Employer(s) of 2020: The Winners

Wrongful Discharge for Complaining to an Employer or OSHA about Unsafe Work

Yamada: Harsh Words for Some Employer-Side Lawyers

Yes, you can still fire employees for lying, even when they are seeking FMLA leave

YOU CANNOT BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BY YOUR CALIFORNIA EMPLOYER BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DISABLED CHILD

You May Be Entitled To Back Pay If Your Employer Makes An Error In Your Classification

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 CA EMPLOYER CAN’T FIRE YOU BECAUSE YOU TAKE LAWFUL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

YOUR CA EMPLOYER CANNOT FIRE YOU BECAUSE OF AN INJURY YOU RECEIVED ON THE JOB.

YOUR CA EMPLOYER CANNOT FORCE YOU TO BREAK THE LAW

Your employees are BYODing, whether you like it or not

Your Employer May Be Personally Liabile For Failing To Pay Overtime

Your Employer May Need To Pay You For Time Spent On Your Smartphone

Your Employer Must Pay You What You Deserve: Consenting to "not" be paid overtime wages violates FLSA

Your front-line employees are not security guards

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