Labor & Employment
Renewed union activity, albeit not in the industries you’d expect, means employers should look at their policies anew to be sure that they do not violate labor law. Gray Plant Mooty attorney Matthew Webster has a helpful list of tips that include ways to ensure employees are successful and satisfied, decreasing the chance of interest in joining a union.
The Washington State Supreme Court holding that state law allows a claim for failure to reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious practices is hardly surprising, but how the Court reached that result, and its other conclusions along the way, will complicate how businesses in Washington operate.
A safety audit can lead to improvements in operations and reduce liability risk, but it also creates evidence. In the […]
An employer’s restriction preventing departing workers from soliciting potential future clients of the company is overbroad, a federal court in […]
In a suit that has gone on for more than a decade, California’s highest court ruled that the trial methodology […]
As labor costs in China continue to rise, Mexico looks better as a manufacturing venue for U.S. companies. Chinese labor […]
Most employees at Google are white men, the company revealed when it released a workplace census. More than two-thirds of […]
The number of people moving for a new job has been on steady decline since the turn of the century, […]
A California First District Court of Appeal decision clarifies the conditions that must obtain before an employer can be liable for an off-the-clock employment claim.
More employers are taking disciplinary action and implementing social media policies to protect themselves against specific risks of social media misuse, according to a new survey by law firm Proskauer Rose.
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