Labor and Employment
The Department of Labor has sent out a Request for Information (RFI) about so-called “brokerage windows.” This could signal an […]
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby found that some companies, “closely held corporations,” did not have to […]
The recent case of Jimmy John’s workers protesting for additional sick days led the NLRB to overrule long-standing precedent, expanding the ability of employees to protest and curbing an employer’s ability to discipline workers for publicly criticism.
A second employee of the EEOC’s Phoenix Regional Office has sued the agency for race discrimination, retaliation, and violation of civil rights.
After a period of relatively robust job creation and a steadily falling unemployment rate…
A post from Foley & Lardner takes issue with an upbeat report from the Department of Labor about how the […]
By failing to take action to protect a female employee from a customer who had repeatedly approached, pursued and confronted […]
“Immoral behavior” is usually not going to be a legal justification for a mandatory medical examination, and might even get you a judicial smackdown, as evidenced in a recent case with a Michigan EMT worker who was told to get counseling or a pink slip.
A Wisconsin manufacturing company’s firing of several Hispanic and Asian employees for having poor English skills is an example of how English-only rules may be used to make “discrimination appear acceptable,” a regional attorney for the EEOC said. But “superficial appearances are not fooling anyone.”
Employers caught unprepared for the oncoming flood of wearable devices will be deeply exposed to liability for data breaches, privacy and workplace discrimination complaints, warns Mintz Levin attorney Jonathan Cain.
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