Labor and Employment
The Seventh Circuit found an employee took her ailing mother on a bucket list trip to Las Vegas should not have had her FMLA leave request denied, nor should she have lost her job, a departure from other court decisions maintaining medical treatment is the sole justification for traveling under FMLA.
Business owners who offer a 401k plan are required to comply with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a complex […]
Large U.S. retailers are weighing the benefits of an increased federal minimum wage. The Gap has already said it plans […]
Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 per hour, as promoted by President Barack Obama, could cost the country about […]
The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has raised the alarm about a recent spate of deaths and injuries in […]
In the wake of the United Auto Workers’ defeat at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant, labor efforts are likely going to […]
Retaliation claims can be invoked ancillary to literally hundreds of federal and state laws and in a wide variety of […]
Wall Street’s 2013 resurgence has lifted the average value of workers’ 401(k)s, and it’s likely to mean that more retirement-age […]
Northwestern University’s men’s football team will join the lawyers this week before the NLRB, making the case that that they […]
Calling a Florida law on non-compete agreements “truly obnoxious,” a New York appellate court has ruled it cannot be applied against New York employees of Florida-based companies.
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