Archive: December 2011

   2.  “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law?” My answer—the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLS...

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   4. Charlie Sheen and the National Labor Relations Board CBS fired Charlie Sheen, in part because he made public disparaging comments...

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   6. EEOC sues for disabled shoplifter You might think that a $1.39 bag of chips, for which the employee later paid, is not a fireable...

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   8. What does St. Patrick have to do with human resources? Legend tells us that in the 5th century, St. Patrick banished all snakes f...

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   10. Unstable employees, direct threats, and the ADA Employers faced with a legitimate and potentially dangerous employee need not ...

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From the NLRB : The National Labor Relations Board has agreed to postpone the effective date of its employee rights notice-posting rule a...

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Today marks the Blog’s last original post of 2011 (if you count a weekly summary as original content). Next week, I will run the 4th annual ...

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Yesterday, the NLRB announced that it had formally adopted a final rule amending its election case procedures. The rule is set to take effe...

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The story of Hanukkah tells us that in 165 B.C., the Maccabees led a successful revolt against the Greeks, who had invaded Jerusalem and out...

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James McKelvey, an Army veteran, lost his right hand and suffered other serious injuries trying to defuse a roadside bomb in Iraq. As if his...

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According to CNN , the Ohio Civil Rights Commission is reviewing the case of a Columbus landlord who has a little problem with African Ameri...

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Employers have a mere 6 weeks, until January 31, 2012, to post the National Labor Relations Board’s new employee rights poster. It applies t...

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We are not a tolerant society. We like to think that we are, but in reality, not so much. Instead, we are a polarized society. More and more...

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No one enjoys paper discovery. Any practitioner who tells you otherwise is either insane or lying. It’s time-consuming and expensive to gath...

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David Yamada is a law professor and the director of the New Workplace Institute at Boston’s Suffolk University Law School. He is also the a...

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I spend a lot of time writing and speaking about social media and the workplace, a lot of which discussing what I call the Big 3: Facebook, ...

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Jeff Haden, writing at Inc.com, suggests that you can make an employee’s day with two words . My suggestion: “You’re fired.” Here’s the...

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If you are an employer, or an attorney representing employers (and if you’re reading this blog I’d bet dollars to donuts you fall into one o...

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Readers, it's pop quiz time. Do the following allegations support an allegation of a hostile work environment? The Plaintiff’s manager...

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How does a hip, cutting-edge company like Apple handle its employees’ use of social media? Apparently, pretty well. 9 to 5 Mac got its hand...

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Wikipedia defines the “casting couch” as “the trading of sexual favors by an aspirant, apprentice employee, or subordinate to a superior, i...

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The American Bar Association has published its list of the best legal blogs—the Blawg 100 . For the second year in a row, I am honored to...

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If your business has employment practices liability insurance, or deals with insurance companies for other coverages, you are probably aware...

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