Retaliation: An Expensive Proposition
Posted 09-16-2010 We've written a lot lately about the growth in retaliation claims, which in 2009 were the #1 claim brought before the EEOC. State [...]
About Ann Kiernan
Ann Kiernan has litigated claims of wrongful discharge and discrimination before state and federal courts and administrative matters before the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the National Labor Relations Board and the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, representing both employers and employees. Ms. Kiernan co-hosted The Employee Rights Forum, a weekly radio call-in show reaching up to a half-million listeners in the New York metropolitan area, and her articles on employment law have been published in many books and magazines. Both as a firm partner and as a director, Ms. Kiernan gained solid experience in management and human resources compliance. She has worked with Fair Measures since 1997.U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Employer Right to Review Personal Text Messages
Posted 08-04-2010 In late June, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in City of Ontario, California v. Quon, upholding an employer's [...]
Heads up for Federal Contractors: Notify Workers About Their Union Rights
Posted 07-07-2010 If you work for a federal contractor with $100,000 or more in federal contracts, or a federal subcontractor with $10,000 or more, you [...]
Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Employer Right to Monitor E-mail
Posted 06-09-2010 In a Spring, 2010 opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that the attorney-client privilege applied to e-mails sent by an employee [...]
What Managers Need to Know and do Under the New Health Care Reform Law
Posted 05-12-2010 With the passage of health care reform legislation in March, 2010, (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010) there has been a [...]
Getting It Right! Managing Employee Performance
Posted 04-14-2010 For many managers, the annual performance review is, like death and taxes, dreaded and inevitable. But it doesn't have to be that way. [...]
Read ’em and Weep: Near-Record Number of EEOC Charges Filed in 2009
Posted 03-03-2010 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employees filed 93,277 workplace discrimination charges with the federal agency nationwide during Fiscal [...]
Court to Blogger: No Constitutional Right to Be Mean
Posted 02-10-2010 Tara Richerson worked for a school district as a coach and mentor to new teachers. She was an active blogger, as well. One day [...]
Is my employer allowed to confirm my salary information?
If I write on a credit application what my salary is and that creditor calls the payroll department at my work, is the payroll employee [...]
Can I ask an employee when she intends to resign?
An employee may be going to another company but has not given a notice. Is it OK for a supervisor to demand a date of [...]