Labor & Employment

3rd Circuit Slaps EEOC In Release-Of-Claims Case

When Allstate Insurance Company changed the way it handled its sales function by transitioning from at-will employees to contract workers, it gave existing sales employees the option of becoming contract sales agents, but they would have to sign….

Top 20 Tips For Negotiating Hotel Management Agreements

David Letterman is gone, but his shtick lives on. The Baker & McKenzie firm’s Australian branch has developed a list […]

Unanimous SCOTUS Strengthens Regulators’ Hand

The Supreme Court has ruled that federal agencies do not have to go through a public notification and comment period […]

Legal Pot A Workplace Conundrum In D.C.

In the wake of a landslide victory for marijuana legalization in Washington, D.C., employers there are now trying to figure […]

Sexual Harassment At A Japanese Aquarium

The parameters of workplace sexual harassment in Japan are in some ways similar to the U.S. and in some ways […]

Ellen Pao And The New Sex Discrimination

The lawsuit Ellen Pao filed against her former employer, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, illustrates the new, […]

EEOC Clobbered In Ban-The-Box Case, But More Cases Loom

Summary Judgment in favor of the employer in a matter involving the employer’s use of criminal background and credit checks […]

Cutting Employee Hours To Dodge Obamacare – Or Not?

Employees have accused Staples Inc. of purposefully keeping some employees at under 30 hours in order to avoid making them […]

SCOTUS Sympathetic To Hijab-Wearing Woman In Discrimination Case

The Supreme Court Justices all but openly mocked the argument from Abercrombie & Fitch’s lawyers that the company could not […]

“Too Black” Waitress Can File A Title VII Claim

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that discrimination on the basis of “color” can be the foundation of […]

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