Labor and Employment
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.
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.
The gay rights movement has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, but not in the C-Suite, the New […]
By a more than three-to-one margin, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to institute the country’s first minimum wage at $25 […]
A free-lance computer scientist, one of four named plaintiffs in the recently settled class action against some of Silicon Valley’s […]
Attorney David Barron of the Cozen O’Connor firm reviews a case in which Du Pont induced employees to join a […]
Ogletree Deakins attorney Thomas McInerney blogs about the national implications of a settlement in an employee raiding case out of […]
A California bill would crack down on the use of long-term temporary workers in lieu of regular employees, a trend […]
Billing rates for female lawyers were about 10 percent lower on average than those of their male counterparts, a study […]
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.
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