I was watching the hearing in Atlanta on efforts to disqualify the Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis from prosecuting former President Donald Trump because she engaged in a romantic affair with the person she appointed to...
Employment Law Letter
A lot is being written on artificial intelligence (AI) and its use in law. A court opinion from February illuminates its “use” in an employment case and the disastrous consequences. I.O.U. instead of wages Molly Kruse...
A recent employment law case in West Texas sheds light on what an employer in an employment lawsuit can ask of the employee via written discovery (pretrial fact finding). It’s a gold mine! We will talk about it in this...
The Arizona Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act—aka Arizona Paid Sick Time Law—requires all employers to provide all employees a certain amount of paid sick time. An employer with at least 15 employees must provide them...
The last several years have seen artificial intelligence (AI) become mainstream in the workplace. Today, HR professionals widely use AI tools for recruiting, onboarding, and administering leave and benefits. Managers use...
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Many factors come into play when employers set work hours for employees, including such things as operational requirements or customers’ needs. On occasion, though, employees may request a modified work schedule to...
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Q: One of our employees is on intermittent Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave. She’s gotten sick and claims it’s unrelated to her reasons for being on FMLA leave. Can we include these days in her FMLA time and...
The significance of documenting employment decisions can’t be overstated and should come as no surprise to employers. Indeed, employment decisions that aren’t supported by documentation—such as poor performance reviews...
On January 9, 2024, the New Jersey Appellate Division unanimously affirmed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment (dismissal without a trial) in favor of an employer that had well-documented proof of an employee’s...
Deferred action is a streamlined and expedited tool that can shield vulnerable migrant and immigrant workers from threats of deportation for reporting unsafe or exploitative employers. Employers taking advantage of risky...
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) recently disclosed the first reported workplace fatality of 2024. The fatality occurred on January 9 in Ionia and resulted from the employee falling...
There’s no question that a University of California professor committed egregious sexual harassment, leading the head of his campus and the chancellor of the University of California system to terminate his employment...
Congress enacted the whistleblower protections of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to prohibit publicly traded companies from retaliating against employees who report what they reasonably believe to be instances of...
By July 1, 2024, almost every employer in California will have to satisfy new requirements designed to effectively combat workplace violence. Written plans, training materials, and employer responsibilities must be in...
Class action leprechauns will be disappointed to hear that a “company’s policy by itself—even if it remains constant during the class period—is not an elixir that turns canned allegations in a complaint into a pot of...