Archive: March 2012

The Labor & Employment blawgosphere nearly blew itself up this week, with Facebook passwords and the Supreme Court’s healthcare argument...

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At his Work Matters blog, Mike Maslanka asked the following question : “What will be on your tombstone?” Don’t get me wrong. I love my job...

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It’s taken awhile for courts to start applying the ADAAA—the January 1, 2009, amendments to the Americans with Disabilities Act that rendere...

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As an advocate for businesses, you might assume that I stand behind an employer’s decision to challenge an ex-employee’s claim for unemploym...

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A lot of ink has been recently spilled in both the popular media and the blawgosphere over the apparent trend of employers requiring job a...

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Workforce Management is celebrating in 90th anniversary . To commemorate this event (and to cleverly tie-in to March’s favorite non-green e...

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In Poling v. Core Molding Technologies (S.D. Ohio 2/9/12) , the plaintiff, who suffered from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome , claime...

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I can’t tell you how many harassment policies I review (and rewrite) that are simply called, “Sexual Harassment Policy.” Most harassment co...

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According to Law.com, wage and hour litigation is big, and getting bigger . One area that has been poised for a take-off for a couple of yea...

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I’ve long believed that the best time to settle a case is while summary judgment is pending. It’s when both sides have the most risk. The em...

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News moves fast. In today’s 140 character news cycle, a story has legs if it’s covered for more than a day. That we are on day two of the mu...

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Beware the ides of March. – Julius Caesar , Act I, scene i. 2,056 years ago, Julius Caesar was assassinated. To mark that occasio...

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According to a recent survey conducted by Salary.com , 64% of employees visit non-work related websites everyday during work hours. The bigg...

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At her Employment & Labor Insider , Robin Shea wrote a great post reminding everyone that it’s “illegal to discriminate against white pe...

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Earlier this month, I wrote about the ADA and hiring preferences , pointing out that the disability discrimination laws do not prevent an em...

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One piece of news you may have missed this week involved a lawsuit filed seeking to block the NLRB’s impending workplace rights poster . Th...

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Yesterday started out pretty lousy. My kids were all bent of shape because the cable box wasn’t working and they couldn’t watch their mornin...

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No matter how good of an employer you are, no matter how well you treat your employees, and no matter how closely you try to follow the myri...

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Last year I wrote a post entitled The Employer’s Bill of Rights . It remains one of the most read and most commented-upon posts in the five-...

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At her cleverly-named employee-side blog , Donna Ballman reported on a study published by the National Employment Lawyers Association —an a...

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Today, Dr. Seuss would have been 108 years old. What does Dr. Seuss have to do with employment law, you ask? Believe it or not, I have an an...

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Earlier this week, the EEOC published Veterans and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): A Guide for Employers . In this guide, the EEO...

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