Fraudulent unemployment claims have risen across the country over the last year. Kansas has been hit particularly hard. In some of the opening weeks of 2021, the state received the third-highest number of initial claims...
Employment Law Letter
A defamation lawsuit filed by a real estate management company against a union and a security guard isn't preempted by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in a recent unpublished...
After Creighton University dismissed a member of its medical residency program, she sued for wrongful termination and alleged she had been a victim of age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...
Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes a wave of hiring teenagers. Even though as of this writing we haven’t finished the Drake Relays in Des Moines and most likely have at least one more chance of snow in...
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), recently signed by President Joe Biden, creates a number of changes and/or continuations of COVID-19 relief programs available to businesses and employees. Here are three main...
We all know neither Google nor Facebook has a legal degree, but that doesn’t stop your employees from acting as if the social media platforms do. More than one employee has probably pushed back on a policy by saying, “I...
Q We have an exempt employee who was out for a month due to covid-19. She was paid her salary, and her sick time was deducted. Even with her already-accrued sick time plus the 80 additional hours, she now has negative...
Illinois employers now have yet another law to navigate. The state human rights statute now bans discrimination based on a candidate’s or employee’s criminal conviction unless the employer can show a “substantial...
As any high schooler with a smartphone will tell you, your words can haunt you long after you utter them. One high school recently learned the same is true for its employees, thanks to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act...
The 7th Circuit recently upheld a decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a case involving Woodbridge Winery. The ruling cemented employees' right to display a prounion message on their clothing...
The Idaho Supreme Court recently rendered a decision highlighting an important distinction between wrongful discharge and “fraudulent hiring,” the latter of which allows at-will employees to sue their former employer...
Q An employee is having an elective surgery that won’t require an overnight hospital stay, but she will be off work for two weeks to recover and will possibly have some restrictions afterward. Will her surgery and time...
Up to 30 percent of employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors, according to national estimates. Misclassification occurs when an employer improperly classifies a worker as an independent contractor...
As a result of COVID-19, many Canadian provinces declared a public health emergency and either ordered (or urged) employers to let employees work from home if their tasks could be performed remotely. A business may face...
Case law interpreting Georgia’s Restrictive Covenants Act (RCA) continues to make its way through the courts, and the message is consistent: Despite the RCA’s proclamation that restrictive covenants are in favor of...