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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... more +
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 -
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Terminating Employees? Ignoring State And Local Wage Laws Can Cost You

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Terminating employees can be a daunting task. Failing to follow your state or local rules when terminating an employee can make the task exponentially more difficult and expensive. When a business plans on firing or laying...more

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Collective Redundancies In Europe

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One of the difficult realities of running a business is that companies occasionally find themselves needing to make reductions to their staff headcount, be it because of workplace shutdowns due to economic difficulties,...more

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Reductions in Force: Legal Do’s and Don’ts

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Reductions in force (RIFs) are making headlines as companies trim their worker ranks in the face of a weakening economy. Employers must decide whether to implement voluntary or involuntary RIFs (or both); the considerations...more

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Lessons and Reminders for Employers from Elon Musk’s Employment-Related Actions at Twitter

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Since taking control of Twitter at the end of October, Elon Musk has been making news headlines for all the wrong reasons. Shortly after the acquisition was complete, he fired nearly half of Twitter’s workforce – before...more

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Major Revisions to New Jersey’s WARN Act Require Payment of Severance, Expand Notice Requirements, and Increase Liability for Mass...

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On January 21, 2020, New Jersey Governor Murphy enacted major revisions to the New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss Notification Act, commonly referred to as the New Jersey WARN Act (“NJ WARN Act”), that make...more

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Mandatory Severance Pay for Mass Layoffs Looms in New Jersey

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The New Jersey Senate has passed a bill that would amend the New Jersey Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Loss Job Notification Act, more commonly referred to as the “NJ WARN Act,” to require severance payments and increase...more

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Employment Law - December 2017 #2

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NLRB’s Noteworthy Developments - Recent decisions from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) find the board overturning two of its previously established standards. The NLRB overturned its standard for assessing the...more

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A Tale of Two Decertification Motions

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The Seventh and Eighth Circuits both addressed motions to decertify classes the week of July 5—with divergent results.  These cases illustrate the deference afforded district courts’ class certification determinations.  Both...more

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What GCs Need to Know About Reductions in Force

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Reductions in force (“RIFs”) are group terminations, usually driven by the financial condition or business needs of the employer. An employer’s General Counsel, even though responsible for protecting the employer from legal...more

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WARN Act Does Not Prohibit Employers From Spacing Layoffs to Avoid Notice Requirements

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The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to provide 60 days advance notice to employees of certain qualifying plant closings and mass layoffs. The WARN thresholds are based on...more

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Not So Final WARNing: Sixth Circuit Finds That Employment Ends with Termination of Wages, Not Notice

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In Morton v. Vanderbilt Univ., 2016 WL 52439 (6th Cir. Jan. 5, 2016), the Sixth Circuit recently held that, for purposes of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN Act”), employment does not end at notice...more

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