Human Resources

Age Discrimination Said To Be Pervasive, Hard To Prove

“Once layoffs were done by reverse seniority,” notes one economics professor, but the age of “last in, first out” is […]

“Even well-intentioned employers may be violating the law,” warns Littler attorney Zev J. Eigen. “Pay equity laws do not contain […]

Silicon Valley start-up incubator Y Combinator has emailed a reporting form to entrepreneurs encouraging them to report sexual harassment by […]

The presence of an in-house lawyer on a company’s “Termination Review Committee” was enough to render the committee’s deliberations privileged, […]

Travis Kalanick, the tempestuous chief executive of Uber, will take a leave of absence from the ride-sharing giant just as […]

Pressure at the state/federal marijuana law fault line continues to build. Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, as a Schedule […]

California is widely cited as the prime example of a jurisdiction where, for better or for worse, non-compete agreements are […]

A study found an uptick in the percentage of positive urine drug tests among workers in 2016, when it hit […]

An employment case filed in the Northern District of Illinois has opened a “new employment frontier,” says a post from […]

IBM joins a handful of companies that have backtracked on the movement to allow employees to work from home. While […]