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In-House Counsel Seminar Insights: Group Exercise Highlights Tricky Employment Law Issues

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 2/10/2020

Hammertime Security is a nationwide cybersecurity firm whose in-house counsel faces a slew of tricky legal problems: - Managers posting unprofessional content on social media - Employees publicly complaining about...more

I-21 – Sexual Harassment (Still), Political Tweeting, and Intersectional Discrimination

Cozen O'Connor on 12/4/2017

Good faith and timing means everything in employment law. This episode of Employment Law Now provides an update from DC, discusses questions employers should be asking in today’s climate of troubling sexual harassment news,...more

Employment Law - October 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/23/2017

Employer Bound by Oral Contract, California Appellate Court Affirms - Why it matters - Upholding an oral contract, the California Court of Appeal agreed with an employee that she should be paid a commission for certain...more

Employment Law - April 2017

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/14/2017

Eleventh Circuit: Title VII Doesn’t Prohibit Sexual Orientation Discrimination - Why it matters - In a decision that is already being cited in other courts around the country, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...more

15 For ’15: Employment And Labor Resolutions For The New Year

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/8/2015

While the year is still young, here are 15 New Year’s resolutions that employers may want to make: 1. Make sure your “independent contractors” are really independent contractors. ”Independent contractors” are under...more

Employment Law -- Jun 05, 2013

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 6/5/2013

From the Hill: FMLA Amendment and Anti-Arbitration Legislation - Lawmakers on the Hill are considering two employment-related bills that would make changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act and invalidate pre-dispute...more

Legislative Update: Social Media Account Protection and Paid FMLA?

Pullman & Comley, LLC on 5/14/2013

With just a few weeks left in what has turned out to be a very unpredictable legislative session in Connecticut, there are still several bills up for consideration that employers need to be on the look out for. ...more

Facebook Postings Showing Misuse of FMLA Leave Can Form Sufficient Legal Basis of Termination

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/26/2013

Based on the number of social media decisions from the National Labor Relations Board over the past two years, most employers understand that when employee Facebook postings constitute “protected activity” under the National...more

Employee’s Facebook Fumble Dooms Her FMLA Claims

Foley & Lardner LLP on 2/19/2013

As we have previously mentioned, an employer’s use of social media content has its risks and legal limitations. However, under certain circumstances, an employee’s social media activity may prove relevant to and warrant...more

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