Documentation is key to dismissal of discrimination cases
While the laws under which employees can bring lawsuits are expanding, employees’ successes continue to retract, at least in federal court. ...
Five action points when your company is sued
By Jon Hyman
Over the course of the past years, I’ve written a lot about best practices to prevent employee lawsuits. The fact remains, though, that no m...
Do you know? Agreements cannot waive future claims
By Jon Hyman
Do you know? One of the mistakes that I see made over and over again in agreements I review is waivers of future claims. Take, for example, ...
Stimulus Bill to provide for subsidized COBRA coverage for laid-off employees
By Jon Hyman
COBRA provides workers and their families who lose health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their g...
WIRTW #66
By Jon Hyman
Overlawyered brings us the story of the week. File this one under what goes around comes around. A California attorney settled a consumer c...
Courts open Pandora’s Box in applying the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
By Jon Hyman
Today I am going to get technical and talk about statutory interpretation. Bear with me, though, because how some courts are incorrectly int...
A primer on employee polygraph testing
By Jon Hyman
As I’ve previously reported, as the recession deepens, incidents of employee theft are on the rise . It should go without saying that just a...