How Modern Workplaces Navigate Generational Shifts: One-on-One with Jeff Landes
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 46: The 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference with Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth of GSHRM
(Podcast) California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 44: Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations with Kimberly Hewitt and Antwan Lofton of Duke University
Innovation in Compliance: Training Synergy: Insights from Compliance and HR Integration with Lori Stahl
Managing the Compliance-HR Relationship
Strategic HR Insights with Kelly Mitchell
A Guide to Running Background Checks: What's the Tea in L&E?
Constangy Clips Ep. 9 - The Penalty Playbook: 3 Pointers for Employee Discipline
Culture Crafters: Preventing and Fixing a Cultural Disconnect
Fostering Teamwork: Lessons From the Dynamic Duo of Monsters, Inc. — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Building a Solid HR Foundation in Healthcare Practices
Employment Law Now VIII-158 - DEI Developments and Executive Coaching
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Good News for the ACA in 2025
Now Is the Time to Conduct I-9 Audits: What's the Tea in L&E?
(Podcast) California Employment News: AB 2499 – Expanded Rights & Protections for Victims of Violence in the Workplace
California Employment News: AB 2499 – Expanded Rights & Protections for Victims of Violence in the Workplace
Office Holiday Parties: Legal Insights and Best Practices from Office Christmas Party and Love Actually — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Navigating Multigenerational Dynamics: Inspired by The Intern — Hiring to Firing Podcast
A Performance Improvement Plan (“PIP”) is a long-standing HR tool for managing underperforming employees. Employers often use a PIP to document deficiencies and outline specific goals the underperforming employee must reach...more
Employer going to trial in age discrimination case. We had a blizzard last Friday (in North Carolina, 2 inches is a blizzard), and we still have ice and snow on the ground a week later. Anyway, I've had enough of winter now...more
It is often said that consistent application of an employer’s work rules is one of the best ways to avoid liability for discrimination claims. Doing so can help to rebut the allegation that an individual has been subjected...more
An event presented by Labor and Employment and Human Resource Professionals - Mark your calendars! You won’t want to miss Procopio’s annual Labor & Employment Seminar in La Jolla on November 3rd. As a dedicated...more
In a decision issued on May 10, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of the employer in a case involving alleged wrongful termination in violation of the Uniformed...more
A Question of Mixed Fact and Law - In a decision for which leave to appeal was denied by the Divisional Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently confirmed that a Rule 21 motion, seeking a determination of a...more
COVID-19- automatic unfair dismissal for employee who remained in Italy during outbreak - A Tribunal has found, in the case of Montanaro v Lansafe Limited, that an employee who had travelled from the UK to Italy for the...more
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits retaliation against employees because they either oppose discriminatory actions (the "Opposition Clause") or because of their participation in an investigation, proceeding, or...more
In a recent labour arbitration decision, TELUS v United Steelworkers, Telecommunications Workers Union National Local 1944 (Heywood), Arbitrator Jolliffe, Q.C., upheld the termination of a long-service, unionized employee for...more
Yes, an employer can implement a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, subject to some conditions and exceptions. A mandatory vaccine policy must be job-related, consistent with business necessity or justified by a direct...more
Ontario employers, already grappling with the challenges of managing employee costs during the COVID-19 pandemic, now face the burden of an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that could materially increase many employers'...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) incorrectly found an employee invoked Weingarten rights and misapplied the Wright Line burden-shifting framework in finding an employee was unlawfully terminated, the federal appeals...more
Many of our employer clients have contacted us with questions about new laws and court decisions on medical and recreational marijuana, and what it all means for business managers charged with hiring, managing, and...more
A recent decision by the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, in which the employer prevailed in a retaliatory discharge claim, demonstrates the importance of (1) maintaining confidentiality of workplace investigations and (2)...more
An employer’s shifting rationale for termination doomed it to facing a jury trial on a pregnancy discrimination claim in the recent case Fassbender v. Correct Care Solutions....more
If you work in human resources, or are an executive or employment lawyer, at some point you probably have thought, heard or said words to the effect of “Juries are very unpredictable and can do some crazy things.” I admit...more
As if employers already did not have enough reasons to have to think through termination decisions carefully, here is yet another “trigger” word that should make employers think twice about plans to discipline or fire an...more
A new opinion released by the Tenth Circuit provides practical tips to employers dealing with multiple employee complaints alleging generalized harassment and/or discrimination throughout the workplace....more
A recent decision offers a not-so-friendly reminder to HR professionals and supervisory employees: you can be individually liable for FMLA violations if you review, approve, and correspond with employees regarding their FMLA...more
In Graziadio v. Culinary Institute of America, et al., 15-888-cv (2d. Cir. Mar. 17, 2016), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the...more
Last week, Cargill Meat Solutions terminated approximately 190 employees who failed to report to work for three consecutive days. The employees, who are Muslim, stayed away from work in protest over the meatpacking plant’s...more