Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Robbin Hutton | November 16, 2017
The recent acts of terrorism in the name of religion around the globe, the political protest in Brazil, along with the protests in the United States by extremist groups, have created management issues for all employers.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 15, 2017
“If it wasn't clear before, it's crystal clear now: women—and the families relying on women's paychecks—are at the bottom of the Trump administration's agenda,” said Emily Martin, general counsel to the National Women's Law Center. “By stopping the equal pay data collection, this administration has shown that its loyalties lie with corporate employers who want to hide pay discrimination under the rug. We will not allow this to go unchallenged.”
By Robbin Hutton | November 15, 2017
The United Kingdom and other countries have experienced recent acts of terrorism in in the name of religion, with the United States seeing an increase in protests by extremist groups.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 14, 2017
“There is a lot of confusion on what the law requires that has been going on for a long time,” said Sam Schwartz-Fenwick, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw in Chicago. “More uncertainty is negatively perceived by many employers, who prefer to work in black and white, not shades of gray.”
By Sue Reisinger | November 10, 2017
As the allegations stream in, companies are paying attention.
By Erin Mulvaney | November 10, 2017
Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in the United Kingdom should be considered employees and have rights to minimum wage and holiday pay, a tribunal said in a ruling against the ride-hailing company.
By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | November 10, 2017
Should the company have taken a different approach when it dropped hundreds of its employees?
By C. Ryan Barber | November 8, 2017
Glassdoor Inc., the online job-review site, must comply with a federal grand jury subpoena that seeks identifying information about anonymous users of the website, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in rejecting the company's privacy claims.
By Andrew Denney | November 1, 2017
Workers for a water-filtration system sales company should have been compensated for their time for answering calls from home and being on-call to assist other workers, a federal judge said in a ruling.
By Erin Mulvaney | October 30, 2017
The fate of the Obama-era regulation that made millions of more workers eligible for overtime pay remains unresolved after the U.S. Labor Department on Monday moved to defend the agency's power to set such a rule. “There is a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety and ambiguity,” one lawyer said. “This might be the biggest mess I've ever seen. There are a lot of complicated issues."
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