Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, ...

Today, the Board issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, returning to longstanding precedent holding that employers may not offer employees severance agreements that require employees to broadly waiv...

Takeaway: Employee classification and exemptions are some of the most complex and litigious issues that employers face. They arise in many situations under federal and state laws, such as determin...

property have denied that they should cover the 47 million ($57 million) costs for remedial work after it was found that the materials used fell short of certain regulatory requirements. . . . Stay...

Investigation finds Roger H. Bohannan DDS Inc. illegally fired two workers in 2020 NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TX – Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be pai...

“Olga, we put a typically stellar employee in a newly created position, and he is now missing deadlines, not communicating well, and snaps at co-workers,” my friend told me over coffee. “We’ve tal...

Days after the Texas house speaker openly opposed using taxpayer dollars to settle a whistleblower suit against Attorney General Ken Paxton's office, a top agency lawyer said avoiding the payout wo...

Interview Summary The pandemic brought forth a significant shift in workplaces. Many employers transitioned their businesses to a hybrid work model or exclusive remote working arrangements. What p...

Provost’s Forum speaker shares story of bringing accountability to Big Tech If you walk into a store and a precariously balanced ladder falls and injures someone, an attorney will argue in court t...

In 2014, the New Jersey Supreme Court held in Atalese v. U.S. Legal Services Group, L.P. that in order to be enforceable, arbitration clauses must contain an express waiver of the parties’ right t...