Labor and Employment

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 […]

Gender Gap Persists In Billing Rates, Study Finds

Billing rates for female lawyers were about 10 percent lower on average than those  of their male counterparts, a study […]

Do Employees Have A Right To Use Company Email To Organize?

The NLRB re-opened the question of whether workers have a right to use their employers’ communications systems (including email) for union organizing and other protected activities, opening the door for reversal of an employer-friendly 2007 rule barring the practice.

Legal Perils Of “Light Duty” In The Workplace

It can be invoked in the context of workers’ comp, the ADA and the FMLA, and employers need to understand the implications of each and how they relate.

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