Notice Requirements, Best Management Practices

Employment Terms - A View From Both Sides of the Pond

Goodwin on 1/25/2024

As businesses look to expand their operations globally, we are increasingly seeing HR leaders taking a strategic view on how they want to engage their workforce across different jurisdictions. There is a greater push from...more

Arizona’s Paid Sick Leave Law, Part III: Record-Keeping, Shifting Employment Relationships, and Tips for Drafting Policies

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 6/14/2017

Arizona’s new paid sick leave law—Proposition 206 or The Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act—will go into effect on July 1, 2017. Since the law passed, the Industrial Commission of Arizona (ICA) has crafted proposed...more

Notice and Opportunity to Bargain: What Newly Organized Employers Must Do Before Imposing Discipline

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/8/2016

Notwithstanding Member Miscamarra’s detailed dissent showing the majority’s flawed reasoning and departure from long-standing precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently imposed new bargaining obligations on...more

The Notice Provision of the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA): What Employers Must Do Now

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 5/23/2016

The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA), which became effective on May 11, extends federal civil protection to trade secrets and allows companies and individuals to file private lawsuits to remedy a wrongful taking of their trade...more

How Fowl! Is An Employee's Text and His Girlfriend's Report Enough to Establish Notice of Need for FMLA Leave? Not So Fast...

Franczek P.C. on 6/4/2015

This one just smells fowl. Delbert (not sure if he goes by Del or Bert, so I’ll just call him Delbert) decided not to show up for work at Tyson Fresh Meats on December 28. Instead, he asked his girlfriend, who also worked...more

Cyber Security: Forewarned is Fair-Warned

Gray Reed on 7/25/2014

When Wei Wong, owner of Sushi Mushi, a popular Japanese food bistro in Texas, installed a phone add-on to take credit and debit card payments straight from his employees’ phones, his revenues skyrocketed. Yesterday the Feds...more