Employment Law Letter

NJ District Court awards employer Rule 11 sanctions for frivolous suit

On March 31, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey imposed Rule 11 sanctions in favor of an employer based on the filing of a frivolous second amended complaint. The case serves as an important...

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NLRB General Counsel issues memo about recent severance agreement ruling

Previously, we addressed a recent decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which reversed Trump era decisions permitting fairly broad confidentiality and nondisparagement provisions in severance...

Minnesota House passes recreational marijuana bill

Recently, the Minnesota House passed HF100, a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana in the state. It still needs to pass the Senate and be signed by Governor Tim Walz before it becomes law, but the governor...

6th Circuit clarifies duty to disclose disability, request accommodation

A recent opinion by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee employers) confirmed that an employee must sufficiently alert their employer of the need for a...

The importance of a comprehensive written information security program

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently received a filing from a potentially large group of Massachusetts residents who allege their personal and private information was exposed in a data...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · New England · Massachusetts

Elective surgeries covered under the FMLA, but only with an overnight hospital stay

Q: We have an employee who had elective weight-loss surgery without complications and is off work for two weeks to recover. Does the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) apply? If an eligible employee requests FMLA leave...

Continuing to pay an employee’s salary after their death

Q: We have an employee who died, and we would like to continue paying his salary for the next two months to help his wife. How should we go about doing this? Should we pay her using a 1099 MISC form? Unfortunately, like...

Small-town politics land city manager in Supreme Court

Watch any local newscast anywhere in the United States, and there’s a recurring theme: the hardball nature of local politics. This intersects with the fact that social media is a given in our lives, and all sorts of...

Come one, come all: Revamped Texas tort claims

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi) recently gave a booster shot to the viability of certain tort claims in Texas. A tort claim is a civil wrong committed by one person...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Texas Supreme Court orders fair fight in personal injury lawsuit

Discovery is the process by which each side in a lawsuit gets to know, before a trial, the knowledge possessed by the other side. And, sometimes, this knowledge will be shaped and offered at a trial. A new Texas Supreme...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Texas Supreme Court tosses whistleblower claim

Texas law protects public employees who “blow the whistle” on their government employer. But over the last several years, the Texas Supreme Court has interpreted the statute to limit its reach, remove its remedies, and...

May 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Automatic payroll deductions are allowed, but follow all rules

Q For nonexempt, hourly employees who don’t have access to the time clock during the day (they are delivery drivers), how should we handle their meal breaks? Can we automatically deduct 30 minutes from their hours? There...

As on-demand pay gains popularity, data show how it’s working out

Interest continues to grow in programs that allow workers to access at least part of their pay ahead of their regular payday. Surveys consistently show that on-demand pay—often called earned wage access (EWA)—is a...

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Monitoring your employees? Understand the pros and cons

Employers have long used employee monitoring techniques to understand what workers do all day. Reasons for monitoring run the gamut from keeping an eye out for thieves and slackers to discovering ways to improve...

Court not impressed with implied notice of termination

Ordinarily, employees are to be paid whenever they reach the end of employment. But for a temporary services employee, how are they told of that ending? And does that occur at the end of every assignment? A specific...

May 29, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Arkansas Stephen W. Jones of Jack Nelson Jones, PLLC, and Audra Hamilton and Nathan Read of Mitchell Williams
Kansas Boyd A. Byers, Teresa L. Shulda, and Tara Eberline of Foulston Siefkin LLP
Missouri Robert A. Kaiser, Jeremy Brenner, and Ida S. Shafaie of Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Oklahoma Charles S. Plumb, Courtney Bru, Paul Ross, Philip Bruce, and Jacob Crawford of McAfee & Taft

Delaware Lauren Russell of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP
Maryland Steven E. Bers and David M. Stevens of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P.
New Jersey John C. Petrella and Dina M. Mastellone of Genova Burns LLC
Pennsylvania Dena Calo, Lisa Koblin, Carolyn Pellegrini, and Zachary Kimmel of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Virginia Jonathan Mook and Bernard J. DiMuro of DiMuroGinsberg PC

Illinois Steven L. Brenneman and Kelly Smith-Haley of Fox, Swibel, Levin & Carroll, LLP
Indiana Brian R. Garrison of Faegre Drinker
Michigan Gary S. Fealk and John T. Below of Bodman PLC
Ohio Fred G. Pressley, Jr., Jourdan D. Day, and John M. Stephen of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Wisconsin Saul Glazer, Troy D. Thompson, Michael J. Westcott, Leslie A. Sammon, and Heath Straka of Axley Brynelson LLP

Kentucky Richard S. Cleary, John T. Lovett, Robert D. Hudson, and Kathleen Biggs Wright of Frost Brown Todd LLC
North Carolina Richard L. Rainey of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
South Carolina Richard J. Morgan, James K. Gilliam, Jonathan C. Eggert, and Chandler E. Aragona of Burr & Forman LLP
Tennessee Kara E. Shea and David Johnson of Butler Snow LLP
West Virginia Larry J. Rector and Allison B. Williams of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Alabama Albert L. Vreeland and David J. Middlebrooks of Lehr Middlebrooks Vreeland & Thompson, P.C.
Florida G. Thomas Harper of The Law and Mediation Offices of G. Thomas Harper, LLC, Lisa Berg and Andrew Rodman of Stearns Weaver Miller, and Robert J. Sniffen and Jeff Slanker of Sniffen & Spellman, P.A.
Georgia Raanon Gal of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Glianny Fagundo of Thompson Hine LLP and Chris Butler of the Chris Butler Firm
Louisiana H. Mark Adams and Jennifer Kogos of Jones Walker LLP
Mississippi Martin J. Regimbal of The Kullman Firm

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