The Eleventh Circuit Affirmed It Was Not A “Crime” To Not Compensate For Dressing and Drive Time By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on July 17, 2018 Posted in Employment Law Should we be paying our employees before their shifts start? The answer is highly ...
Employers Are Responsible for Stopping Sexual Harassment by Non-Employees By Leiza Dolghih on July 16, 2018 Posted in Employment Law A recent opinion from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed just this issue when ...
Why Executives Should Negotiate an Indemnity Clause into Employment Agreements By Keith Clouse on July 11, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, Labor Law, Litigation Indemnification is a legal concept included in many contracts whereby one party agrees ...
Tenth Circuit Reaffirms That Title VII Does Not Require Employers to Offer an Employee Their “Preferred” Religious Accommodation By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on July 10, 2018 Posted in Employment Law In Christmon v. B&B Airparts, Inc., an employee sued his former employer under Title VII ...
Predictive Scheduling: Yet Another Type of Law For Employers To Worry About By Robert G. Chadwick, Jr. on July 3, 2018 Posted in Employment Law In recent years, the rights of applicants and employees have been expanded ...
Are Employment Class Actions A Thing of the Past? By Keith Clouse on June 27, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court upheld employers’ use of class action waivers in employment ...
Arbitration Agreement Unenforceable Due to Employer’s Missing Signature By Alyson Brown on June 14, 2018 Posted in Employment Law The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voided an arbitration agreement between an ...
Using Credit Histories in Employment Decisions: An Overview of Divergent State & Local Requirements By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on June 12, 2018 Posted in Discrimination, Employment Law, Fair Credit Reporting Act Over the past few years, restrictions regarding the use of credit checks by employers on ...
Pet-Friendly Workplaces – Asking Fur Trouble or a Pawsitive Purrfessional Trend? By Alyson Brown on June 6, 2018 Posted in Employment Law Who brings dogs to work? In addition to the employers who participate in ...
Ensuring that Your Employees’ Electronically-Signed Agreements are Enforceable By Drew York on May 24, 2018 Posted in Employment Law Are electronic acknowledgments just as binding as a signed document? It can be ...
U.S. Supreme Court May Have Opened the Door to Sports Wagering, But Don’t Bet on Gambling in the Workplace By Alyson Brown on May 23, 2018 Posted in Employment Law What does this ruling mean for the workplace? Informal office wagering ...
A Class Waiver Can Be A Condition of Employment By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on May 22, 2018 Posted in Employment Law In one of the most significant employment cases in memory, a sharply divided ...
Reminder That It’s Plaintiff’s Burden To Prove Comparators Are Similarly Situated In Disparate Treatment Cases By Douglas A. Darch on May 15, 2018 Posted in Employment Law Employment law practitioners are keenly aware of the McDonnell Douglas ...
Austin’s Sick Leave Ordinance Faces Challenge By Austin TX Business Law Blog on May 10, 2018 Posted in Employment Law The law is slated to start on October 1st, but now it is facing a legal challenge ...
State-Specific Harassment Prevention Mandates: The Emerging Reality For Multi-State Employers By Robert G. Chadwick, Jr. on May 8, 2018 Posted in Discrimination, Employment Law For more than thirty years, sexual harassment has been a recognized form of ...
Supreme Court’s Inaction Establishes that Post-FMLA Medical Leave is Not Required Under ADA By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on May 3, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, FMLA Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court declined review of a Seventh Circuit Court of ...
Employer Guilty of Gross Negligence By Thomas J. Crane on April 3, 2018 Posted in Employment Law In Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Rogers, the court addressed the question whether ...
Raging Bull: Getting Beat Up On Glassdoor? By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on March 29, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, Social Media People are used to sharing everything about their lives—from what they ate for ...
The New Wave Of Title VII Suits Alleging Sexual Orientation Discrimination By Robert G. Chadwick, Jr. on March 27, 2018 Posted in Discrimination, Employment Law In Zarda v. Altitude Express, Inc., the plaintiff alleged he had been discriminated against ...
VII Before IX: Continuing Saga in Harassment Claim Preemption By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on March 27, 2018 Posted in Employment Law A recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, part of the ...
A Global Perspective on the Future of Wearable Technology By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on March 20, 2018 Posted in Employment Law, Technology Wearables — where to start? With the smartwatch languishing in my junk drawer ...
Employees are ALSO Required to Engage in the Interactive Process Under the ADA By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on March 13, 2018 Posted in ADA, Employment Law Employee committed to taking opioids loses his job and his disability discrimination ...
Termination Opportunities By Rob Radcliff on March 6, 2018 Posted in Employment Law For whatever reason an employee leaves, the exit interview or instance when the HR ...
“A Telecommute Dispute” – What is a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA? By Seyfarth Shaw LLP on March 1, 2018 Posted in ADA, Employment Law The Plaintiff requested to work from home for ten weeks while she was on bedrest from ...
