Labor and Employment

Troubling Trend: Workplace Suicides

In 2013, 270 U.S. workers committed suicide at work, a 12 percent increase over the prior year. An American Journal […]

Employee Handbooks Add Paid Sick Leave, Data Privacy

Paid sick leave was the most commonly added subject to employee handbooks, with data privacy and social media close behind, […]

Algorithms Identify Employees Likely To Leave

With corporations increasingly concerned about the high cost of turnover, some are using a wide variety of data points – […]

“Joint Employer” Definition Keeps Widening

In the past few years plaintiffs have attempted to broaden the definition of joint employer in employment lawsuits, and with […]

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, […]

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