I hope everyone has had a safe and happy holiday season.
Here are two links to some interesting employment law developments from the
past couple of weeks, along with a little analysis. Check back for a year-in-review
In Indianapolis, hotel workers recently entered into a settlement
in a lawsuit against national staffing company Hospitality Staffing Solutions
(HSS). The lawsuit alleged the workers hadn’t been fully paid for housekeeping
The past few weeks have been extremely newsworthy in regards
to unions, strikes, and the relationship between organized labor and the public
sector. I thought it would be useful to post some summaries of the more
Here are some quick summaries of a few interesting
employment law developments from the past week.
A recent Supreme Court Decision looked at the intersection
to two hot legal topics: noncompete agreements and arbitration clauses. The
case, Nitro-Lift Technologies LLC v.
I’ve posted links to the first two articles by EEO Legal
Solutions looking at the EEOC’s Fiscal Year 2012 Performance and Accountability
Report. Here, we finish up the series with a look at the final article, which seeks
A few days ago I posted a short link to an excellent
analysis of the EEOC’s recent Fiscal Year 2012 Performance and Accountability
Report. The first segment of the analysis was highly skeptical of the EEOC’s
A new federal case has upheld the right of an employee to
take FMLA leave to care for a parent who is on a recreational trip. The case
represents a significant broadening of FMLA leave, and represents one of the
Here are a few links to some interesting stories from the
last week. There are a couple of articles about interesting developments in the
world of pension funds, as well as analysis of a recent Supreme Court oral
A recent NLRB decision struck down a clause in an employer’s
social media policy that prevented employees from using social media on company
time. In the case, the employee challenged two provisions of the company’s
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