Labor and Employment

Free Rein For Employees In Social Media?

Even restrictions on passing “confidential” information may not pass muster.

Company Doesn’t Have To Open Books If It’s “Unwilling” To Pay Union

After a company that has one plant in the U.S. and one in Mexico said it was “unwilling” to meet […]

Google Eyes Coming To The Workplace

“Wearable computers” like Google Glass and iWatch could enhance employee productivity, but…

“Ban-The-Box” Laws Becoming The Norm

State and local laws prohibiting or severely restricting inquiries about criminal history on an employment application, so-called ban-the-box laws…

Extreme Disproportion: E-Discovery in Employment Litigation

In most employment litigation, the employee possesses very little information potentially relevant to the case, while the employer’s potentially huge […]

The Pay-Ratio In The News

The Dodd-Frank pay disparity provision – now being revisited in Congress – would require  public companies to calculate and disclose […]

OSHA Will Target Exits

One of the most frequent citations in the retail and hospitality industries is likely to get more frequent.

When The N-Word Gets Launched At Work

This post looks at a number of recent cases where the word had been used in the workplace, sometimes once, […]

OSHA’s New Priorities

OSHA has released its Semiannual Agenda of Regulations, the list of regulations the Department of Labor expects to consider in […]

Complex Benefits Questions Raised By DOMA Decision

The complexities of same-sex marriage benefits are made clear in this post, and there are many of them. Several federal […]

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