Archive: March 2014

Some people head to the beach for Spring Break. I head to Philadelphia. An extended school break for my kids provides a good opportunity to ...

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Yesterday , I shared my thoughts on the NLRB’s historic (yet preliminary) ruling on scholarship student athletes as employees. I argued that...

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By now you’ve likely heard that yesterday a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern University’s sc...

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A Galveston, Texas, jury has awarded $567,000 in damages to a former deputy constable who claimed sexual harassment by his former boss. The...

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Darren Wyss claims that his former employer, Compact Industries, demoted him on the basis of his gender and replaced him with a female. Wyss...

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Twenty years ago, Tom Hanks won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Andrew Beckett, a man with AIDS fired by his law firm because of h...

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Earlier this week , I reported on the White House call for the Department of Labor to “fix” the overtime regulations for exempt employees. H...

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If you’re a $72 billion company that happens to be staunchly anti-union, and money is no object in the education of your employees about how...

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Photo by Joelk75, via Flickr, cc Both of my children were formula-fed. It wasn’t for lack of lactation effort. We (or, more accurately, ...

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Mark Laster worked as a Public Safety Officer/Emergency Officer for the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety for more than 23 years. After ...

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Last week, President Obama called upon the Secretary of Labor to “modernize and streamline the existing overtime regulations.” According to ...

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Earlier this week Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg launched BanBossy.com . She believes that “bossy” is to aspiring female leaders as the n-word...

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Yesterday, the EEOC held a public meeting on the use of social media in the workplace, and its impact on the enforcement of equal employmen...

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Three years ago, I wrote a post entitled, 10 tips for preparing for your deposition , in which I offered some ideas for how to best prepare ...

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Law.com , one of the best websites for legal information, recently relaunched. Its relaunch features posts by well-known bloggers, including...

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http://flic.kr/p/dLGTi8 I rarely write about active cases I’m handling. In fact, I can only think of one other time that I was mad enou...

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Have you heard the one about the daughter who posted on her Facebook page about her dad’s age discrimination settlement with his old company...

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Susan Fredman Design Group employed Jill Maremont as its Director of Marketing, Public Relations, and E-Commerce. In that capacity, she used...

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Cynthia Horn worked for Knight Facilities Management as a janitor. Sometime in 2010, she developed a sensitivity to cleaning chemicals. Her ...

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Yesterday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Busk v. Integrity Staffing Solutions , to answer the following question (via SCOTUSblog ): Whe...

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Late last month, the new NLRB General Counsel, Richard Griffin, published a memo ( GC 14-01 ) outlining the matters that the Regions must su...

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