Labor and Employment

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 […]

Confidentialty And Disparagement

The NLRB has held that confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in an employment agreement were not acceptable. The employees, who were […]

Is Stealing Company Documents Protected Activity?

After discovering that an employee has stolen or downloaded confidential information, a course of action that seems obvious  – investigation […]

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