Noncompete agreements can be an effective way to protect your business if former employees or independent contractors are working for a rival business and using the skills, information, and contacts they acquired while...
Employment Law Letter
Including the appropriate language in an employment agreement can enable you to terminate a contract employee who engages in bad behavior. A recent decision from the Arkansas Court of Appeals illustrates that principle...
Q We have a long-term employee who has begun acting irrationally and erratically—demanding to be placed on projects he isn't qualified for, having emotional outbursts in front of other employees—which has had a negative...
When you sit down to write an employee handbook, you'll probably start by trying to think of all the subjects you need to cover. The obvious ones come easily. Of course, you must tell your employees about how they will...
If you Google "How to Nail an Interview," more than 300,000,000 hits come up. Indeed, the importance of crushing an interview cannot be overstated, as one engineer with a race discrimination claim recently learned...
Sometimes the schoolteacher refrains "everyone be quiet" or "back to your corners" can feel like an excellent tool for managing employees. Be aware of the pitfalls, however, when you ask them to avoid certain topics of...
Q We have a long-term employee who has begun acting irrationally and erraticallydemanding to be placed on projects he isnt qualified for, having emotional outbursts in front of other employeeswhich has had a negative...
Q We have a long-term employee who has begun acting irrationally and erratically—demanding to be placed on projects he isn't qualified for, having emotional outbursts in front of other employees—which has had a negative...
Last month, we discussed the sigh of relief you can breathe now that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has held employers may require confidentiality during the course of workplace investigations (see “NLRB...
Over the past months, we've written about some court decisions applying religious exemptions embodied in federal antidiscrimination statutes. A recent decision by the Illinois Appellate Court illustrates a companion...
Over the past months, we've written about some court decisions applying religious exemptions embodied in federal antidiscrimination statutes. A recent decision by the Illinois Appellate Court illustrates a companion...
After an employer changed the terms of an employee bonus plan, a misunderstanding developed and led to a finding that the employees' claimed wages hadn't been “agreed upon,” resulting in rejection of their wage and hour...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced the final rule concerning joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The effective date is March 16, 2020. Four-factor test The FLSA established the...
The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) kicked off the new year by releasing two opinion letters providing guidance for dealing with issues arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
Georgia State Senator Tonya Anderson has introduced a bill to prohibit hair-based discrimination in businesses and schools. It aims specifically to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles historically associated...