Takeaway: In 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court created a flexible standard for showing a materially adverse action to support a retaliation claim. Despite that flexibility, some seemingly harmful decisions have not qualified... Read more »
Takeaway: While public employees often have an entitlement to continued employment under federal law and thus must receive due process protections before discharge, that is not always the case. Depending on state... Read more »
With the proliferation of remote work, employers are increasingly encountering situations where employees have taken on a distracting side hustle—or even a second full-time job. While employers have typically allowed or tolerated... Read more »
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »
New Jersey Gov. Philip Murphy recently signed Assembly Bill 4682, establishing various employment protections for specific “service employees” during changes of ownership. This law will take effect on Oct. 22. Under the... Read more »
Takeaway: An employer’s somewhat lenient application of disciplinary penalties can come back to haunt it if it imposes more-severe consequences in later cases. Even though the employer prevailed in this case, the... Read more »
Firing employees is a necessary part of running a company in the U.K., but it’s important to do it in accordance with the law. There are certain things to keep in mind... Read more »
Takeaway: Where an arbitration agreement contained signature blocks for both the employee’s and the employer’s signatures, but the employer never signed it, the employer could not enforce the agreement. An employer... Read more »
Despite news reports of massive layoffs in some industries earlier this year, the overall rate of staffing cuts has been relatively consistent since 2021, between 0.9 percent and 1.2 percent a month, according to... Read more »
