Labor and Employment

The “Employee-Misconduct Defense” After An OSHA Citation

When safety violations are committed by employees, is the company liable? That depends, explains a client alert from Stites & […]

Tighten Up Your Confidentiality Agreements

Your company is likely overdue to scrutinize and tighten up its confidentiality agreements, says a client alert from Seyfarth Shaw. […]

The Fresh Eye Of the Lateral

Rather than considering new laterals primarily as strangers that need to be integrated, law firms can benefit by considering them […]

Leverage HR To Address Risk Of Data Breach

For all the paranoia about organized hackers, foreign and domestic, in fact most data-breach problems are the result of negligent […]

The Supreme Court Case Most Affected By Scalia’s Passing

Washington Post reporter Lydia DePillis, keying off a post in the SCOTUS blog, looks at the docket and sees a […]

EEOC Wants Tougher Retaliation Rules

Proposed changes would “further stack the deck against employers” by expanding the definition of both…

Workplace Pregnancy Rights Asserted By Moms-To-Be

Lawsuits around the rights of pregnant women to work and be accommodated at the workplace are being filed at an […]

Yahoo Manipulated Worker Evaluations, Lawsuit Claims

A mass termination lawsuit claims that, in an effort to justify eliminating hundreds of workers as part of a cost-reduction […]

Lost Key Just Pretext For Firing Says Walmart Pharmacist, Wins $31M

According to the plaintiff in a discrimination and retaliation case, Walmart’s claim that she was fired because she lost a […]

Appeals Court: Union Leafleting OK In “Mixed-Use” Hallway

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an NLRB ruling that the entrance hallway at the DHL Express main hub […]

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