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

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

   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...

   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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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

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...