Archive: January 2011

Noncompetition agreements are fabulous tools. They protect employer’s trade secrets and other confidential and proprietary information, cust...

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I am an expat Philadelphian. When the Eagles came to Cleveland in 2004, I wore my Donovan McNabb jersey with pride inside Browns Stadium, an...

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Last night, the self-proclaimed world's greatest bosses met for the first time. Michael Scott, meet David Brent: Presented...

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its annual report of union membership, and the news isn’t good for organized labor. Unions lost ...

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Australian broadcaster Todd Woodbridge thought that tennis star Kim Clijsters was pregnant. His problem, however, was that he did not keep i...

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Join me Friday morning as I guest on the one-year anniversary installment of Stephanie Thomas’s Proactive Employer Podcast . Stephanie and I...

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In The Gay Science , Friedrich Nietzsche explained his theory of the eternal recurrence —that if the universe is infinitely big, time is ete...

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Employment law takes a break today because yesterday we put Zoey to sleep. She was born on January 26, 2005, the largest in a litter of seve...

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Each week, there’s a story or two that slips through the cracks that I just can’t get to. This week is no exception. Earlier this week, the ...

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In Gross v. FBL Financial Servs. , the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that mixed-motives do not exist in federal age discrimination claims, an...

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Lately, my son and I have been reading Mo Willems ’ Knuffle Bunny , a lot. Knuffle Bunny tells the story of Trixie, who loses her stuffed...

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When I was a child, whenever I wanted to do something popular that my parents disapproved of, they would caution me, “If everyone else jump...

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Today celebrates the life and message of one of our nation’s most important heroes, Martin Luther King, Jr. His remembrance suggests that we...

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Earlier this week, the EEOC released its FY 2010 charge filing statistics, which, to no surprise, reveal that in a bad economy employees fil...

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This April, the Department of Labor intends to publish a proposed rule updating the Fair Labor Standards Act’s recordkeeping regulations. Th...

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If you do a search of my archives you’ll find a slew of posts about employees whose posts on social media sites came back to bite them—eith...

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You are invited join KJK’s employment lawyers for our next Breakfast Briefing: Managing Employee Medical Issues Under the Amended Americans ...

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The mall was packed Saturday afternoon. The fact that we had a few inches of snow on the ground did not help the parking situation. I drove ...

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I opened my email this morning to find the following question from fellow blogger The Evil HR Lady : As you probably know, I’m an avid ...

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While it gets harder each week to keep up with the goings-on in the blogosphere, I’m always happy to welcome another to the table. This week...

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The n-word has been discussed a lot in the media this week, with the announced sanitization of Huckleberry Finn . (Are Roots and To Kill a...

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Earlier this week, two former employees of the New York Jets sued their former employer and Brett Favre for sexual harassment . The message...

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