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Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
An employee, Odell Clarke, was asked to participate in an employer's investigation of sexual harassment. Clarke, a union member, refused to provide a statement to the Respondent's district manager, Mel...
See Full GuideWhen a person, known as a "claimant," files for unemployment insurance in Wisconsin, the first question is whether the person quit or was terminated. If the claimant was terminated, then the issue is w...
See Full GuideAt the very end of last year the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Rea v. Federated Investors, No.2 -09-cv-01205 (3d Cir. Dec. 15, 2010) held that Section 525(b) of the Bankruptcy Code cannot b...
See Full GuideA sales representative, Robert Righi, at a company in Illinois, SMC Corp., was at a mandatory training seminar in Indiana when he suddenly learned that his mother had a medical emergency. In response, ...
See Full GuideRobin Shea over at Constagy, Brooks & Smith's blog has an interesting post on 5 reasons employers should not require a doctor's note when they call in sick for a minor illness (e.g., flu, cold, sore th...
See Full GuideA federal district court in Arkansas recently had to decide whether it is interference of the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") for an employer to repeatedly call an employee on FMLA leave and alwa...
See Full GuideWrongful termination If you live in Arizona or Montana, your employer can only fire you for just cause. Otherwise, they can fire you for any reason or no reason at all. They don’t have to have a good...
See Full GuideDr. Michelle Callahan has an article on The Huffington Post about workplace bullying and how to deal with it in ten tips. Interestingly, women appear to be the biggest perpetrators of workplace bullyin...
See Full GuideDefinition: where an adverse employment action (e.g., termination/firing) by a "clean," non-discriminating upper-level executive is alleged to have been infected by a lower-level supervisor who had dis...
See Full GuideThe Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) became effective in April 2003 and only now, in 2011, is the HHS issuing its first first civil monetary penal...
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