Labor and Employment

Whose Risk Is It Anyway? New Revenue Ruling Provides Guidance for Employee Benefits Captives

The IRS recently provided guidance in the rapidly expanding area of insuring or reinsuring employee benefits with captives, reaffirming current rules on the issue.

As Summer Hiring Season Approaches, Employers Should Be Aware of Wage Payment Rules for Interns

How the Labor Department classifies interns, and three issues that have disqualified many persons from intern status in the past.

Are Provisions in Your Social Media Policy Overbroad? The NLRB Might Think So

Employees talking to one another over social media is equivalent to watercooler conversation, a National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge ruled recently, saying employers cannot limit conversation on one medium and not the other.

Can An Employee Accept A Severance Payment And Still File A Discrimination Claim?

According to the EEOC, in a recent decision, not only is the answer “yes,” but any severance agreement limiting the employee’s right to file a charge of discrimination is unenforceable and illegal.

Gay Rights Lag In The C-Suite

The gay rights movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, but not in  the C-Suite, the New […]

Swiss Voters Shoot Down $25 Minimum Wage

By a more than three-to-one margin, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to institute the country’s first minimum wage at $25 […]

Named Plaintiff Balks At Silicon Valley Hiring Settlement

A free-lance computer scientist, one of four named plaintiffs in the recently settled class action against some of Silicon Valley’s […]

At-Will Doctrine Alive And Well In Texas

Attorney David Barron of the Cozen O’Connor firm reviews a case in which Du Pont induced employees to join a […]

Antitrust Implications Of Silicon Valley Employee Raiding Settlement

Ogletree Deakins attorney Thomas McInerney blogs about the national implications of a settlement in an employee raiding case out of […]

California Bill Would Protect Long-Term Temporary Workers

A California bill would crack down on the use of long-term temporary workers in lieu of regular employees, a trend […]

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