Archive: April 2009

In this morning’s Wall Street Journal , Joseph De Avila features me in an article on how companies handle a laid-off employee’s digital belo...

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There is nothing our media likes more than a good panic. So, it is somewhat with a grain of salt that I take a lot of this week’s coverage a...

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More and more businesses are looking to cut costs anywhere they can. Many require their employees to wear a certain uniform. Can they pass o...

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As a member of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce’s Employment Law Committee , I was asked to respond to the following questions: What would you...

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Courtesy of Anthony Zaller at the California Employment Law Report , the link of the week is How to Nail and Interview . The author of that ...

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Even the most ardent supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act agree that passage in its current form is unlikely. The Cleveland Plain Dea...

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It’s been almost two years since the EEOC released its Enforcement Guidance on Unlawful Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving Respo...

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In the April 9 New York Times , Jonathan Glater reported that more and more people are turning to self-representation during the current eco...

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There is little doubt that the current economic crisis has caused havoc on a lot of good intentioned people’s credit scores. During the good...

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The employment law story of the week is courtesy of Overlawyered and OnPoint . The Poplar Bluff, Missouri, library has agreed to pay a form...

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More ink has been spilled about COBRA in the past two months than was written about it in total since its passage in 1985. And, the hits kee...

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The EEOC announced that it settled a national origin discrimination claim against a California nursing home company for $450,000. The lawsu...

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From the network that brought us reality TV gems such as The Littlest Groom , Who Wants To Marry a Millionaire , and My Big, Fat, Obnoxious ...

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There is no law in Ohio that requires an employer to grant an employee access to his or her personnel file. There are, however, two key exce...

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Courtesy of my friends at PointofLaw.com is the story of the dangers that lurk when distributing information about an employee’s terminatio...

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Yay! I’m number 71, alphabetically, on the Delaware Employment Law Blog ’s list of the top 100 employment law blogs. Seriously, this list is...

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As an employment lawyer, my practice has a lot of different aspects. I’m a counselor, helping clients tame workplace issues before they beco...

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Join KJK’s Labor & Employment attorneys to learn How to Stay Union Free in a Union-Friendly World . Capitol Hill is gearing up for one o...

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Famed columnist William Safire once said, “Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.” I hope he’s right, because I feel p...

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Cancer survivors are 37% more likely to be unemployed than their healthy counterparts. ( See Cancer Survivors Struggle to Find Jobs, Study F...

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Last month I provided some tips on how to properly layoff employees who happen to fall into a protected class . Last week, in Bell v. Prefix...

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After last week’s glut of posts on the Employee Free Choice Act, I bring you this week’s EFCA-free WIRTW. This week the Supreme Court held...

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett , which enforced a provision in a collective-bargaining agreement ...

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According to CNN , French workers are holding management hostage over their refusal to negotiate severance: Hundreds of French workers,...

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