NLRB to permit “sweetheart” contracts
Imagine a union comes to you claiming to have signed authorization cards from a majority of your employees and offers you the following prop...
WIRTW #157 (the naughty or nice edition)
By Jon Hyman
Peter the Elf graces our home every year between Thanksgiving night and Christmas Eve. He’s my family’s Elf on the Shelf . If you don’t h...
University of Minnesota sidesteps minimum wage violations for “volunteer” employees
By Jon Hyman
Have you seen the amazing video of the roof the Metrodome collapsing last weekend? In need of a temporary home to host this Monday night...
6th Circuit recognizes reasonable expectation of privacy in commercially-stored emails
By Jon Hyman
Earlier this year, in Quon v. Arch Wireless , the Supreme Court dodged the question of whether one has a reasonable expectation of privacy i...
Do you know? ABA/DOL’s Bridge to Justice (or, Bridge Over Troubled Referrals)
By Jon Hyman
A couple of weeks ago, the American Bar Association and the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced an unprecedented collabor...