Labor and Employment

For Intern Test, Appeals Court Recognizes “Economic Realities”

An Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision appears to reject the Department of Labor’s six-factor test for determining whether an […]

Amazon Queries Employees On Workplace Problems

After a New York Times article painted a brutal picture of Amazon’s office work environment, the tech giant is using […]

Food Delivery Apps Face Worker Classification Lawsuits

Food delivery apps have become the latest companies in the on-demand economy to be hit by lawsuits claiming employees are […]

Contractors Brace For “Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces”

Executive Order E.O. 13673 (“Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces”) was issued in July of 2014. Given the breadth of this […]

Hard Lessons From A Grisly Accident

Following the horrific death of an employee, Bumble Bee Foods announced its agreement to pay $6 million in a criminal […]

Criminal Background Checks A Dilemma For Employers

There is currently no federal law that prohibits using conviction information in the hire decision or refusing to hire someone […]

Practical Steps For Franchisors To Avoid Joint Liability

With its August decision in the Browning-Ferris case, the National Labor Relations Board widened its working definition of joint-employer, and […]

NLRB: No Drug Test If No Union Rep Present

A recent National Labor Relations Board decision confirmed that if an employee requests the presence of a union representative during […]

How To Fire An Executive

Planning and Implementing an executive’s “removal” presents a number of practical issues that require careful attention, writes Dechert attorney Charles […]

Largest U.S. Union Endorses Hillary

Hillary Clinton, whose candidacy has struggled because of a stream of news about her use of a private email server […]

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