Archive: February 2009

The Department of Labor and the IRS have published the various information and forms necessary to carry out the new COBRA subsidy. The Penns...

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By week’s end the EEOC will issue proposed regulations implementing the employment provisions of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination...

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Last year, in Thompson v. North Am. Stainless the 6th Circuit recognized a claim under Title VII’s anti-retaliation provision for associati...

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Yesterday I reported on Microsoft’s gaffe in overpaying severance to laid-off employees. Caught in a potential public relations maelstrom, ...

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Last week, the federal government mandated a 65% employer-sponsored subsidy of employees’ health insurance premiums under COBRA for those e...

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For today’s worker, there is perhaps nothing more terrifying than being told that you are being laid off. The companies that can soften the ...

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Fellow blogger Teri Rasmussen, at her Ohio Practical Business Law blog, has compiled an exhaustive list of every Ohio-based legal blog. Tha...

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While the laws under which employees can bring lawsuits are expanding, employees’ successes continue to retract, at least in federal court. ...

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Over the course of the past years, I’ve written a lot about best practices to prevent employee lawsuits. The fact remains, though, that no m...

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Do you know? One of the mistakes that I see made over and over again in agreements I review is waivers of future claims. Take, for example, ...

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COBRA provides workers and their families who lose health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their g...

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Overlawyered brings us the story of the week. File this one under what goes around comes around. A California attorney settled a consumer c...

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Today I am going to get technical and talk about statutory interpretation. Bear with me, though, because how some courts are incorrectly int...

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As I’ve previously reported, as the recession deepens, incidents of employee theft are on the rise . It should go without saying that just a...

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Do you know? There are specific standards that govern whether an unpaid internship passes muster under the Fair Labor Standards Act. If you ...

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Brown v. Nutrition Management Services Co. , from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is a good reminder that ignorance of the law is neve...

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This week’s review starts with a couple of follow ups on early posts. Wage and Hour Counsel reports on an 11th Circuit decision discussing ...

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Yesterday, the AFL-CIO delivered to Capitol Hill a petition of a claimed 1.5 million signature in support of the Employee Free Choice Act ....

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Damages in discrimination cases come is several shapes – economic damages for lost wages (back pay and front pay), compensatory damages, emo...

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Do you know? One of the FLSA’s lesser-known exemptions is the Computer Employee Exemption. For an employee to qualify for the computer emp...

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This headline from the New York Times says it all: “Layoffs Herald a Heyday for Employee Lawsuits.” More workers are being let go as c...

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