Labor and Employment
An employer’s reimbursement obligations have been expanded in a recent California Court of Appeal ruling. The decision concerned a cell phone used to make business calls, but could be applied to many other “personal” items such as laptops, tablets, the Internet connections to use them, and even home land-lines phones.
Earlier this year, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick proposed legislation that would have made Massachusetts one of a very small number […]
The editors for the long-running reality show Survivor have been granted union recognition after a one-day strike. Reality television often […]
Macy’s has agreed to pay a $950,000 fine and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of corporate criminal liability […]
After a New York Times article suggested Starbucks’ worker scheduling method made life unnecessarily difficult for some of the coffee […]
The proposed settlement in the Silicon Valley wage-fixing case has been rejected by a federal judge as inadequate, given plaintiffs’ […]
The California Labor Code has some flexibility when it comes to employee work schedules, with the “Alternative Workweek Schedule.” Generally […]
Discrimination against the long-term unemployed has been a concern for both federal and state lawmakers over the past few years. […]
More employers are prohibiting employees from using cell phones for work-related calls while driving and…
Monetary relief for workplace harassment cases has increased dramatically from 2012 to 2013, and standing in violation of a few tenets – requiring the accuser to report the harassment through the chain of command, not providing training, among other things – could put firms at undue risk.
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