Labor and Employment

Stricter Worker Privacy Regulations Trending In 2014

New laws going into effect in 2014 suggest two major accelerating trends in workplace privacy: Legislators and enforcement agencies will […]

Europe’s Army Of The Unemployed

More than 26 million people are officially listed as unemployed in the Eurozone, which equates to an unemployment rate of […]

Resistance To The Anti-Disparagement Termination Deal

Many settlement agreements with fired employees contain clauses meant to prevent ex-workers from disparaging their former companies or bosses. But […]

Study: Workplace Wellness Programs Oversold

A Rand Corporation study of one company’s wellness programs found mixed results when it measured a purported benefit of such […]

Hot Stock: Attractive CEOs See Higher Assigned Share Values

A University of Wisconsin study found that a good-looking CEO has real and immediate benefits for a company: Attractive CEOs […]

NLRB Won’t Push Union Poster Rule

Businesses are claiming an important victory in a case many see as decisive in their effort to curtail burdensome workplace […]

Legal Pot In Colorado Doesn’t Inhibit Employer Drug Testing

Employers in pot-friendly Colorado may keep their drug policies and testing requirements, and they can still dismiss employees whose performance […]

Employer’s No-Gossip Policy Nixed By NLRB

A for-profit technical school established a no-gossip policy that, among other things, gave it the right to fire employees who […]

Boeing, Union, Agree To Terms For 777X Project

Washington state will be home to Boeing’s decade-long, 20,000-job project building a new composite wing and assembling  the company’s 777X […]

A Case for Legal Process Outsourcing

Legal process outsourcing received a big boost in 2006, when the Association of the Bar of the City of New […]

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