Archive: December 2008

Today brings us to the end of our countdown, and the top two labor and employment law stories of the year. Each of these stories will have f...

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Today brings us numbers 4 and 3 of our countdown of the year’s top labor and employment law stories: 4. President Bush signs the ADA Amend...

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Our year-end countdown the year’s top 10 labor and employment law stories continues with numbers 6 and 5: 6. The Ohio Supreme Court holds ...

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We continue our year-end countdown of 2008’s top 10 labor and employment law stories with numbers 8 and 7: 8. Wage and hour lawsuits conti...

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A couple of Sundays ago, the New York Times suggested that more and more companies will be flat out shutting down for the last week of the ...

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Do you know? What does it take for an employee to qualify as exempt under the Executive Exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act? Yesterday...

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At the end of last year, I made a list of New Year’s resolutions for everyone. Number 4 on that list was, “Audit your wage and hour practic...

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What I’m Reading This Week will be taking the rest of the year off to recharge it’s batteries. After today’s column, this feature will retu...

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Hot off the presses from the Department of Labor are the following documents to use when the new FMLA regulations go into effect on January ...

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Let’s review the currently protected classes. Under the current state of the law, it is illegal to discharge, to refuse to hire, or otherwis...

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Don’t change your explanation about why an employee was fired mid-stream while in the midst of defending a discrimination claim. ...

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Do you know? Ohio has a specific statute that allows for one to sue civilly for theft. Not only can one recover the amounts stolen, but als...

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According to last week's Wall Street Journal Career Journal , theft by  employees may be reaching epidemic proportions. In the wake...

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I had planned on doing an elaborate post on the inherent risks to employers from holiday parties. The Connecticut Employment Law Blog and t...

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As I mentioned on Monday ( Do-overs ), an unconditional offer of reinstatement can be a useful tool to minimize or even avoid liability in a...

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Last week, Republic Windows and Doors, a Chicago manufacturer, announced that because Bank of America had cancelled its line of credit, it w...

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Business organizations have decided to fight fire with fire, putting out their own advertisements on the dangers of the Employee Free Choice...

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While I was watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with my family and something struck me. The elves making toys for Santa looked awfully ...

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I vividly remember playing baseball in the street in front of my house as a child. Every once in a while something would interfere with the ...

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Or what I’ve been reading for the last two weeks, thanks to last week’s Thanksgiving hiatus. According to Roger Matus’ Death by Email , th...

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In McKnight v. General Motors (6th Cir. 12/4/08) , the 6th Circuit was presented with the question of whether disabled former employees hav...

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I’m a huge fan of Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. We share a common passion – Philadelphia sports teams. Although, I’ve never been involve...

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In Medical Mutual of Ohio v. k. Amelia Enterprises (6th Circuit 12/2/08) , the 6th Circuit dismissed a claim brought by Medical Mutual agai...

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Do you know? In 2008, the EEOC received 95,402 private sector charges of discrimination, which is a 15.2% increase from 2007. Given the curr...

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Last week, I was jarred out of a comfortable evening of family television by the following commercial: We’ve grown accustomed to endless...

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