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Here are articles on hot employment law issues that effect managers and supervisors in everyday work situations for your ongoing learning. To search by specific workplace issues, we have also organized these articles into a list of FAQs.
Posted 05-11-2011 In yet another expansion of its anti-retaliation decisions, the United States Supreme Court decided recently that an employee who made oral complaints to [...]
Posted 04-06-2011 What does a cat's paw have to do with employment law? Over the past 20 years, a variety of lower federal courts have [...]
Posted 03-16-2011 Have you heard about the Facebook firing case? In October, 2010, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint against American Medical [...]
Posted 02-09-2011 On January 24, 2011, a unanimous United States Supreme Court ruled that a man who was fired after his fiancée had filed a [...]
Posted 01-12-2011 As 2011 begins, let's take a quick look back at 2010 and a look ahead to new employment law developments: EEOC: 2010- Record-Breaking Year [...]
Posted 12-08-2010 In a landmark decision, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission has ruled that an employer can be found liable for failing to train [...]
Posted 11-10-2010 Let's face it: Even though our economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, times are tough, with HR, management, and workers being [...]
Posted 10-06-2010 You might think that the typical sexual harassment case involves a man harassing a woman, and you would be right. But sexual harassment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]