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In the past year, wage and hour class actions against California employers have continued to proliferate, with many cases resulting in skyrocketing settlements or judgments against employers (such as the recent $105 million verdict against Starbucks)... More...

Several recent Minnesota Court of Appeals decisions affirmed administrative hearing decisions that an employee had voluntarily quit or had been terminated for misconduct. There is still some hope that employers can win unemployment compensation cases... More...

Excerpted from New York Employment Law Letter and written by attorneys at the law firms of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. It's no news flash that companies must proceed with caution when classifying someone who provides them with services as an i... More...

Excerpted from Kansas Employment Law Letter and written by attorneys at the law firms of Foulston Siefkin LLP Recently, I met a plaintiff's lawyer during a particularly expansive mediation. He was on the opposing side, and after we were throu... More...

Excerpted from Connecticut Employment Law Letter and written by attorneys at the law firms of Jorden Burt LLP By now, you know that the old "sticks and stones" schoolyard adage is way off: Words can hurt you. You may be surprised to find out how few ... More...

A recent Federal District Court in Minnesota has determined that an employee handbook provision that provided for an arbitration procedure is not enforceable, but the arbitration provision that was contained in the employment application was enforcea... More...

In a 4-3 decision, the California Supreme Court in Jones v. The Lodge at Torry Pines Partnership, found that nonemployer individuals (e.g., supervisors) are not personally liable for claims of retaliation brought under California's Fair Employment an... More...

In a recent case, the Minnesota Supreme Court held that an employee has not earned the right to payment in lieu of paid time off when she has failed to or cannot meet the conditions in a valid employment contract entitling her to the payment. In Lee... More...

Excerpted from New Jersey Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Pitney Hardin LLP A federal appeals court recently affirmed the dismissal of a disability discrimination claim based on perfume sensitivity. It found that the emplo... More...

Excerpted from Vermont Employment Law Letter and written by an attorney at the law firm of Dinse, Knapp & McAndrew, P.C. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently determined that a job applicant presented enough disputed informatio... More...

Mentoring isn’t a new concept. Older, experienced workers take young people under their wings, offering advice, guidance and the benefit of their years of hard-earned experience in an effort to help the young employees rise on the ladder of suc... More...

The first full term of the Supreme Court with its newest members - the Roberts Court - opens Oct. 2, 2006, with two significant cases on workers´ rights already scheduled for decision, and an array of other employment law disputes waiting for t... More...

In the wake of today's highly anticipated ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway v. White, employers have far less latitude to make transfers or changes to an employee's job duties after filing a discriminati... More...

A deeply divided Supreme Court has given government supervisors at all levels - from federal agencies down to city departments - new authority to restrict internal complaints by their employees, even when the staff members are acting as whistleb... More...

On June 22, 2006, the United States Supreme Court addressed the issue of retaliation for exercising rights under Title VII in Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White, 548 U.S. (2006). In White, the Court adopted a broad reading ... More...

Employers have been watching with anticipation to see what the U.S. Supreme Court would do with the claim of several Mohawk Industries employees that the company engaged in unlawful racketeering by the widespread and knowing employment and harboring ... More...

The Supreme Court, probing the meaning of employer retaliation against workers who complain of discrimination, appeared to be looking for a middle ground: a supervisor´s insulting snub probably would not be serious enough, but a temporary suspe... More...

Excerpted from Maryland Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P. Anyone who has spent time in downtown Baltimore over the past several months has become acutely aware of the activ... More...

After several years of employees being required to meet a very high standard to have their cases heard by a jury, that may be changing in the long term. The U.S. Supreme Court recently cautioned federal judges to be careful in the rules of evidence a... More...

Adapted from Virginia Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm LeClair Ryan An employee starts a fight on the job, gets injured, and files for workers' comp benefits. Outrageous, you say! But what if fighting is part of his jo... More...

Excerpted from Utah Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Wood Crapo LLC Whenever you go to a program on employment law, the presenters probably emphasizes the importance of documentation, but you need to know when and how ... More...

In one of the most significant rulings on the duty of employers to pay their workers for the actual work they do, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has made it simpler to calculate when the workday starts and when it stops. Relying on a concept of "a co... More...

Excerpted from Alabama Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Lehr Middlebrooks Price & Vreeland, P.C. You're already familiar with your basic obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): If an employee has... More...

Excerpted from North Carolina Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a press release announcing that a large movie theater ch... More...

Excerpted from Texas Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Ford & Harrison LLP Here's a common lament: If only I knew then what I know now. And we lawyers often hear that right after trial. Trial provides the wisdom of hi... More...

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