By John A. Gallagher Most Americans have a general understanding of the “Employment at Will” doctrine. They understand that it means that they … Read more
How Unreturned Phone Calls Made for a Worker’s FMLA Retaliation Claim
By Eric B. Meyer An eligible employee may take up to 12 work weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act in a 12-month period. If an employee … Read more
Business Groups File Suit to Stop NLRB-Required Union Rights Poster
By Eric B. Meyer Readers of this blog know from this post that the National Labor Relations Board is forcing most private-sector employers to post this … Read more
What a Georgia Strip Club Can Teach Us About Independent Contractors
By Eric B. Meyer Meet Karenza Clincy. She, along with other “nude, female exotic dancers,” sued The Onyx, an Atlanta nightclub, for wage and … Read more
Is Telling an Employee to Forget Her Dead Daughter Proof of a Hostile Work Environment?
By John A. Gallagher The Superior Court of New Jersey (one step above a Common Pleas court and one step below New Jersey’s Supreme Court), issued a … Read more
Labor Department, IRS to Go After Misclassified Independent Contractors
By John E. Thompson The U.S. Labor Department announced this week that it has entered into a cooperative alliance with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service … Read more
One Employer’s Response to a Social Media Nightmare
By Eric B. Meyer Earlier this year, a Philadelphia-area teacher was suspended after her school learned about nasty comments on her personal blog concerning … Read more
Required NLRB Poster on Employee Rights Now Available to Employers
By Raymond C. Haley III On September 14, 2011, the National Labor Relations Board made the newly-required poster describing employee rights under the … Read more
Record Award For Man Fired While Recovering From Cancer Surgery
Lots of cutting-edge workplace and HR issues percolate up and out to the rest of country from here in California (where the TLNT world headquarters just … Read more
Competitive Compensation? It’s All Relative in the Global Marketplace
With globalization comes added complexity for Human Resources. When companies begin to expand operations into countries outside the headquarters, local … Read more