Labor and Employment

Corporate Homicide?

The UK passed a corporate homicide law in 2007, after some high profile worker death cases. There are voices in […]

Why Executive Women Get Paid Less

The idea that women aren’t good negotiators doesn’t hold up…

A Lurking Cost In Some Overseas Labor Markets

The BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – are often considered attractive because…

Appeals Court, Citing Amex, Says Wage Claim Must Arbitrate

Less than two months after the Supreme Court’s decision in American Express v. Italian Colors…

Are Corporations Using Prisons As Slave Labor Camps?

A notion gaining some currency among activists and the media diverts attention from the real…

Survey Sees Increasing Employer Interest in “Voluntary Benefits”

Benefits such as life, dental and disability insurance, financial counseling and identity theft protection, so that employees can select to “fit their lifestyles…

“Monsieur X” Case Continues Trend Limiting Employee Data Protection

A look at trends in French law in view of a July decision that…

A Shrunken Class Still Fails In Round Two Of Walmart Suit

Responding to a Supreme Court decision that said the putative class in a discrimination lawsuit was too disparate to qualify, […]

Why The Plaintiff Burned The Computer

Many a litigant and potential litigant has had the impulse, but the plaintiff in an employment case did it. She […]

Employment Law In UK Keeps Looking Better For Employers

By U.S. standards, it’s an employer’s game.

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