Over at her employee-rights blog, Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home , attorney  Donna Ballman asks, “ Is is time to terminate at-will emplo...

The Wall Street Journal recently asked this simple question: What's the Best Way to Fire Someone? I have some thoughts.

I recently came across an interesting blog, entitled, 10 Workplace Rights You Think You Have — But Still Don't . Written by plaintiff-si...

At his always excellent Connecticut Employment Law Blog , Dan Schwartz recently asked the following question: “What Does ‘At Will’ Employm...

Last week, I suggested that the “FMLA is not a personnel-file eraser.” One does not return from an FMLA leave with a clean performance sl...

Carcorp hired Barry Elam to work in its finance department. A few months into his employment with Carcorp, Elam sued his prior employer, Bob...

Last Friday I had the pleasure of appearing on Huffington Post Live, in a segment entitled, “You’re Fired! No really.” We discussed the curr...

The NLRB has confused me with its apparent reasonableness. Last week, the NLRB published an advice memorandum from its Office of General Cou...

If you are a non-union employer, you likely have an employee handbook that sets forth the policies and procedures that guide your relationsh...

On Donna Ballman’s blog, Screw You Guys, I’m Going Home , she argues for a radical change to at-will employment. She believes that unemploym...

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...

In Fulton v. ODJFS (11/3/11) [pdf] , the employee argued that he was entitled to recover unemployment compensation because his employer fai...

The Employer Bill of Rights is now available as a book. It is a practical handbook designed to help business owners, managers, supervi...

Yesterday, I noted that employees often feign ignorance of employee handbooks . Here’s a textbook example. In Steadman v. Sterilite Corp. ...

Employee handbooks come in all shapes and sizes. For example, some employers have different policies that cover exempt versus non-exempt emp...

In White v. Fabiniak , Wal-Mart fired Carla White for threatening to "slap the piss" out of a co-worker, Stephanie Jeppe. Prior to...

At-will employment is one of the hallmarks of American employment law. "Under the employment at will doctrine, either party to an emplo...

In a 6-1 decision published today, the Ohio Supreme Court, in Leininger v. Pioneer National Latex , held: "A common-law tort claim for...

Ever since the Ohio Supreme Court decided Wiles v. Medina Auto Parts five years ago, Ohio appellate courts have been chipping away at the co...