Labor & Employment

Fifth Circuit Hands Down Mixed Ruling on Validity of Later-Added Arbitration Clause

When arbitration clauses are added to employment contracts after the fact, employers should keep in mind a recent Fifth Circuit case, in which the court had to determine whether the clause added to one contract could be harmonized with other contracts that defined the employment relationship.

Profanity In The Workplace

Writing in their firm’s blog “California Peculiarities,” Seyfarth Shaw attorneys Nick Geannacopulos and Emily Barker look at what could be […]

Another NLRB Judge Throws Out A Mandatory Employer Arbitration Agreement

For the third time in two weeks, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has rejected an employer’s mandatory […]

A 122-Hour Week In Silicon Valley, No Overtime

A Silicon Valley company will pay a total of $43,000 in back pay and penalties, for wage-and-hour violations that a […]

Labor Unrest On The Rise In China

Strikes, lock-outs, slow-downs, legal actions, media campaigns – much of it targeting foreign companies.

What Ebola Could Mean For Employers

The possibility of a major Ebola outbreak in the United States is now considered slim, but the possibility of serious […]

EEOC Signals Increased Scrutiny Over Sexual Orientation Discrimination

Recent cases the EEOC has filed on behalf of transsexual individuals signals the commission’s adoption of a broad interpretation of […]

Managing Perils Of Workforce Reductions During Litigation

In an article from Bloomberg BNA, Sidley & Austin attorneys Isaac S. Greaney and Eric G. Hoffman provide some tips […]

Are OSHA’S Permissible Exposure Limits Bogus?

An official with The Laborers’ Health and Safety Fund of North America, a consortium with both management and labor trustees, […]

Titles Matter for Books, Not for Employers (or, How to be Jointly Liable as an Employer Even if You’d Rather Not Be)

Even if You’d Rather Not Be)
Ensign, a company that technically has no employees, sought to dismiss an overtime class action filed by an employee of a company it owns. But a court rebuffed the request when it found the companies share an address, corporate officers, recruiting efforts, and so on.