Labor and Employment

Elevator Repairmen Allege Years Of Blatant Racism On The Job

September 17, 2020

It’s inherently dangerous work, but when it also includes confronting things like “noose” graffiti, the n-word scrawled playfully backwards, racist […]

Pandemic Underscores Need To Insure Intangible Assets

September 11, 2020

A recent joint report from Lloyd’s of London and KPMG finds that as much of 85 percent of total business […]

How In-House Counsel Can Protect Trade Secrets

September 3, 2020

As bring-your-own device policies proliferate and digital storage becomes cheaper and more prevalent, it gets easier to pilfer trade secrets. […]

Employers Hit With Covid-19 Wrongful Death Lawsuits

August 25, 2020

An increasing number of families of employees who have died of Covid-19 are filing lawsuits against employers. The key question […]

Accused Of Abetting Child Slave Labor, Two U.S. Companies Challenge Alien Tort Ruling

July 17, 2020

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal by Cargill and a U.S. subsidiary of Swiss-based Nestle SA, over […]

Tracking A “Wave” Of Covid Lawsuits Vs Employers

July 13, 2020

There have been more than 300 Covid-related lawsuits filed in U.S. courts since the beginning of the year, according to […]

Gen Z Joins the Workforce

July 9, 2020

A fresh crop of entry-level workers is about to join the workforce. “Generation Z” is currently the term most accepted […]

Caste Discrimination Alleged In Suit v Cisco

July 7, 2020

Plaintiff California Department of Fair Employment and Housing alleges an unnamed engineer, whom it identifies as a Dalit, suffered repeated acts of discrimination, including lower pay and fewer opportunities, at the hands of two supervising engineers.

Immigration Judges Sue DOJ, Claim They’re Being Muzzled

July 6, 2020

The 460-plus U.S. Immigration judges, represented by the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), are suing the agency of the Department of Justice that oversees the immigration courts.

Class Actions Target COBRA Election Notices

June 26, 2020

In a time of widespread layoffs, there’s been a spate of class action lawsuits alleging that an employer’s’ COBRA “election […]

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