Labor and Employment
Once an employee spills the beans on whistle-blowing at his previous job when that company overcharged the government, his new employer is not in violation of the FCA if it terminates, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio found.
The court recently found that most courts faced with the issue of DOL venue selection clauses in EIRSA-governed pension plan cases found they were enforceable and explained that if Congress wanted to prohibit such clauses, it could have done so.
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.
Writing in their firm’s blog “California Peculiarities,” Seyfarth Shaw attorneys Nick Geannacopulos and Emily Barker look at what could be […]
For the third time in two weeks, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has rejected an employer’s mandatory […]
A Silicon Valley company will pay a total of $43,000 in back pay and penalties, for wage-and-hour violations that a […]
Strikes, lock-outs, slow-downs, legal actions, media campaigns – much of it targeting foreign companies.
The possibility of a major Ebola outbreak in the United States is now considered slim, but the possibility of serious […]
Recent cases the EEOC has filed on behalf of transsexual individuals signals the commission’s adoption of a broad interpretation of […]
In an article from Bloomberg BNA, Sidley & Austin attorneys Isaac S. Greaney and Eric G. Hoffman provide some tips […]
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