Archive: May 2009

This week’s top labor and employment story is undoubtedly President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. F...

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10 years ago, an Atlanta restaurant fired its highest ranking female manager. Last month, a federal jury finally dismissed her sexual harass...

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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. -- Thomas Jefferson In the May 24 New York Times , ethicist R...

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For an employer to claim that an a professional, administrative, or executive employee is “exempt,” and therefore ineligible to receive over...

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This week’s most popular topic is the Supreme Court’s AT&T v. Hulteen [PDF] decision. That case held: “An employer does not necessaril...

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Today, I am going to get a little academic, but I promise I’ll bring it back around at the end with some practical information for employers...

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Employees can be paid in many different ways: an hourly rate, an annual salary, by commission, by piece, a flat rate, with additional establ...

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Whether the EFCA will become law, and in what form, is very much up in the air. Democratic support for the measuring is waning, and business...

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For those who were unable to attend last week’s Breakfast Briefing, you not only missed a free meal, but you also missed a timely discussion...

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The newly launched Warren & Hayes Employment Law Blog , written by the Cleveland-based HR consulting company of the same name, discusses...

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Those were my wife’s words when I told her last night what I’d be writing about today. The EEOC is suing a Houston strip club for firing a 5...

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Law.com reports that 60% of employees who are laid-off, fired, or quit  admit to stealing company data. I previously reported that it cos...

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According to EVliving.com , one employer has come up with a creative idea to combat the current economic downturn. The CEO of Greenleaf Book...

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You would think that the ability to awake on one’s watch is an important attribute for a security guard. One security guard working for a Cl...

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Tomorrow marks the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog’s two-year anniversary. In those two years, I’ve written 604 posts (a number that looks ever mor...

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We’re well into week two of the swine flu, and this story continues to have legs. Now, the EEOC is offering its opinion on how employers can...

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Lots of businesses have zero-tolerance no-call/no-show policies. Under such a policy, if an employee is AWOL from work for a predetermined n...

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It’s no secret that in a down economy, the number of employment-related claims rise. To file a claim under any of the federal employment dis...

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As the number of reported swine flu cases approaches 1,000 globally (a staggeringly low 0.00002% of the world’s population), Judith Warner, ...

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Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter again dominates the news this week. His defection to the Democratic Party is the second biggest news stor...

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