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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

E-Sports: How Employers Can Solve Human Problems in a Digital World

Fisher Phillips on 10/6/2021

While you can debate all you want on whether e-Sports is a “real” sport (or if PC is better than console), this colossal global market of video game competition is currently valued at $1.08 billion dollars – and is definitely...more

UK Employment Appeal Tribunal Advances Scope of Statutory Protection for Strikers

Morgan Lewis on 6/8/2021

The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) handed down its judgment in Mrs F Mercer v. Alternative Future Group Ltd. and Others on 2 June 2021. The EAT found that the relevant provisions in UK legislation protecting workers...more

Labor Gets Wishlist Bill Passed In House

Fisher Phillips on 2/11/2020

The U.S. House of Representatives just passed a bill that would tilt the scales of labor law unequivocally in favor of organized labor. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would bring about a radical shift in labor...more

Racist Picket Conduct Protected

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 8/10/2017

The NLRB holds – famously now – that sexist and racist conduct on a picket line is protected from adverse action unless the conduct is also violent and coercive. Despite a shot across its bow in Consolidated Communications,...more

Employment News - February 2017

Hogan Lovells on 2/21/2017

Springing into action – start date for Trade Union Act - The Trade Union Act 2016 will come into force on 1 March 2017. The new rules apply to any industrial action for which the ballot opens (by sending out voting...more

NLRB Issues Numerous Decisions Against Employers as Hirozawa's Term Expires

Littler on 10/25/2016

In the midst of a heated presidential election cycle, employers are following recent decisions of the National Labor Relations Board closely. Before losing its three-member Democratic majority at the expiration of Board...more

NLRB Decision Threatens 75-Year-Old Precedent, Analyzes Employer’s Motive for Hiring Replacement Workers

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/6/2016

On May 31, a divided National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a very significant decision in American Baptist Homes of the West, increasing the impact of an employer’s motive in deciding whether the permanent replacement...more

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