Randy T. Enochs’s Guides

AttorneyEllen Girard Giorgiadis of Quarles Brady wrote anice brief discussionabout leave as an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) continued attack on employers with strict attendance policies upheld ...

Carris James was an employee of the Hyatt Regency Chicago since 1985 when he took a leave of absence in April 2007due to an eye injury that occurred outside of work when he was involved in an altercation where he was punched in the eye. When James applied to work for the Hyatt, h...

Present in nearly every unemployment compensation appeal decision is discussion aboutBoyton Cab Co. v. Neubeck, 237 Wis. 249, 259-60, 296 N.W. 636 (1941) as it applies to "misconduct." This confuses non-lawyers and claimants and the easiest way to explain why it's put into these ...

A common area employees are incredibly unaware of involves their rights to their personnel file that their employer maintains. A lot of smaller employers don't have the best record-keeping and often do not have personnel files but most established, larger employers have good reco...

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Apopular question and issue that arises every year around this time is whether an employer can force it's employee to receive flu shots/vaccinations. The answer is that employers may generally require employees to receive a flu shot but there are potential law violations associat...

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The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act (ADAAA) was enacted to address the heavy burden plaintiffs faced in court in proving disability discrimination. With expansion of those rights in the workplace the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that ...

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Gary Messier was hired by a technology consulting agency to work as a temporary programmer for defendant Thrivent. During the court of his employment with Thrivent, Messier missed work one day which prompted his supervisor, Thomas Brey,to email Messier to inquire about his absenc...

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The case involves an employee who worked as a customer service representative at Advantage Health Physician Network, and, as the job title suggests, the employee's primary duties involved sitting at a desk answering calls. The employee,Sara Jaszczyszyn,first missed work for the c...

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Starbucks is appealing a court in Massachusett's award of $14 million to Starbucks baristas who worked for the coffee giant in Massachusetts from 2005 and 2011. Starbucks lost its argument that shift supervisors should be classified as wait staff and partake in shared tips becaus...

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Arecent decision by the NLRB finding that an employer's provision in an employee handbook regarding at-will employment violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) made major buzz and has led to a call for guidance. Today, the NLRB's general counsel, Lafe Solomon, released an...

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