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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your December To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 12/4/2023

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

Employer Justified in Terminating Employees Who Hosted Christmas Party During COVID-19

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 10/21/2022

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers were understandably concerned that regardless of the measures taken to prevent workplace infections, employees could still place co-workers and third parties in...more

Second-Guessing The Advice Columns: The Morning After The Workplace Party

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/3/2020

Did I do that? Happy new year, everybody! Greg Giangrande of the New York Post's @Work column answered a letter this week from a guy whose behavior at his workplace holiday party was "a blur." That can't be good....more

Littler Global Guide - Denmark - Q2 2019

Littler on 7/22/2019

Amendments to Concept of Industrial Accidents to Cover “Temporary” Injuries - New Legislation Enacted - The Danish Parliament recently amended the Danish Workers’ Compensation Act for the purpose of, among other things,...more

Second-guessing the advice columns: Holiday party harasser

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 12/11/2018

Hanukkah doesn't end until sundown tonight, and it's two weeks until Christmas. But Greg Giangrande of the "@work" column in the New York Post already has someone who made a big mistake at a workplace holiday party...more

Fight Night at Your Company Holiday Party

Gray Reed on 11/22/2017

Jim Duncey, the owner of Duncey’s Caps, Inc., decides to hold an employee/significant other holiday party this year with live music and an open cash bar managed by a third-party bartending service. Each employee will get...more

Sex, religion, and the holidays — what fun!

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 12/21/2016

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year again. A feeling of excitement in the air, presents, parties, frivolity, EEOC charges. . . . No, this is not a guessing game of “which word doesn’t fit.” With the end of the year...more

Australia: Tribunal Defines "Place of Work" for Off-Duty Misconduct Purposes, Finds Unfair Dismissal Due to Procedurally Defective...

Littler on 7/9/2015

Australia's Fair Works Commission ("FWC") recently handed down its decision in Keenan v. Leighton Boral Amey Joint Venture. In this case, the FWC defined "place of work" with respect to an employee's off-duty conduct, and...more

“Weakest link” is no way to run your workplace

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 11/24/2014

He was fired only 78 days later, and he hadn’t even had a chance to take over the show. His “listening tour” with employees, which began in September and was continuing when he was fired, is supposedly what did him in....more

Serving Alcohol At Your Holiday Party

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 12/13/2013

We here at the McNees Wallace & Nurick Labor and Employment Law Group have been busy preparing for the holiday season. While holiday parties can be great fun, hosting a holiday party or placing holiday decorations in...more

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