A “morality clause,” a contractual provision that affords employers to set moral standards, ethical expectations, and consequences for conduct that the employer determines to be disreputable, is a growing trend in industries that place a premium on public image. Some best practices for including such a clause in employment agreements.
The Seventh Circuit found an employee took her ailing mother on a bucket list trip to Las Vegas should not have had her FMLA leave request denied, nor should she have lost her job, a departure from other court decisions maintaining medical treatment is the sole justification for traveling under FMLA.
Business owners who offer a 401k plan are required to comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a complex […]
Federal agencies remain uneasy about their ability to manage e-discovery and electronic data, according to Deloitte’s “Seventh Annual Benchmarking Study […]
The Supreme Court today will consider the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, though the scope of […]
Plaintiff lawyers who engage in forum-shopping could have a somewhat harder time of it, given the denial of class action […]
M&A brokers no longer have to register as broker-dealers to facilitate mergers, acquisitions, business sales and business combinations. According to […]
Recent state court rulings in the rapidly evolving field of e-discovery. Among them: the denial of a request for disclosure […]
Like much in Harper Lee’s life, details of her recent settlement with a museum, ending her trademark lawsuit, will remain […]
Large U.S. retailers are weighing the benefits of an increased federal minimum wage. The Gap has already said it plans […]
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