Maintaining Business Confidentialities
Dear Clients and Friends, Keeping confidential information confidential is a popular and ongoing employer/employee contest. Here is an...
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- Jul 1, 2015
- 2 min
You may need company policy covering cloud storage.
Dear Clients and Friends; Cloud services make it easy for an employee who is planning to go to work for a competitor to steal...
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- Aug 1, 2011
- 2 min
Social Media in the Workplace
The prevalence of social media, including postings that are meant for employment-related topics in particular, has led to an increase in...
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- May 1, 2011
- 2 min
Employment Retaliation Claims Surging
The case can be made that discriminating against an individual in the workplace because of the person’s gender, race, religion, and...
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- Oct 1, 2010
- 3 min
U.S. Supreme Court: Arbitration Is the New Employment Law
The employment law component of the docket during the most recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court was dominated by decisions on...
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- Sep 1, 2010
- 2 min
Overtime Pay Update
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers must pay an employee an overtime rate of at least one and one-half times the...
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- Mar 1, 2010
- 1 min
E-Mailed Documents Allowed
Shortly before he left the employment of a residential treatment center for addicted persons, an employee e-mailed some of his employer’s...
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- Feb 1, 2010
- 3 min
Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments
The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), which went into effect last year, was a legislative response to U.S. Supreme...
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- Oct 1, 2009
- 2 min
Bonus Plan May Trigger Overtime
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides that employers may not require their employees to work more than 40 hours per...
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- Sep 1, 2009
- 3 min
Caregiver Bias in Employment
Today, it is commonplace for workers to handle both work and caregiving responsibilities for spouses and children, parents and other...
ron7732
- Jul 9, 2008
- 2 min
Employer Forced to Pay Unapproved Overtime
An enforcement action by the U.S. Department of Labor resulted in a ruling that nurses were employees, not independent contractors, of a...
ron7732
- Oct 5, 2005
- 1 min
Taster’s Choice Model Wins Big
A two-hour photo shoot paying $250 has turned into a jury verdict of over $15 million for the model, but it took almost 20 years and some...
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- Oct 4, 2003
- 2 min
Capped Commissions
As a sales representative for a computer software company, Richard received an annual salary and sales commissions as determined by a...
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- Oct 2, 2003
- 2 min
Age Discrimination in Employment
The combined effects of an aging population and a sluggish economy have led to an increase in lawsuits alleging age bias in the...
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- Oct 7, 2002
- 3 min
When Military Duty Calls Employees
In light of the recent call to active duty received by thousands of United States military reservists, employers and employees alike need...
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