Employment Law Articles

FLSA Wage and Hour Lawsuits Are On the Rise posted 3/9/2010

Nicholas Nevarez, Jr. to Present at Upcoming Fundamentals of Employment Law Seminar

EEOC Releases Proposed ADA Regulations

Supreme Court Makes it Harder to Prove Age Discrimination

Social Networking, Texting, and Twittering: Issues Not Addressed in Employee Handbooks

Military Caregiver and Qualifying Exigency Leave Under the FMLA
Stimulus Bill to Change HIPAA Privacy Rules Effective in 2010

Congress Overrules the Supreme Court in Favor of a Broad Definition of “Disability”

The New Form I-9 Is Here

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Two Education Cases

COBRA Subsidies and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Employee Free Choice Act

Improper Termination Procedures May Provide Evidence of Pretext in Support of a Claim for

    Interference With an Employee Benefit Under ERISA

Plan Participant Not Entitled to Review Reports Generated During Adverse Benefit Review

    Process Prior to Plan's Final Decision on Appeal

U.S. Supreme Court Recognizes Retaliation Cause of Action Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1981

Employer Breached ERISA Fiduciary Duties by Providing Misleading Plan Documents

ADEA-RIF: Testimony of Non-Similarly Situated Employees Excluded, But No Per Se Rule

"Forget about your damages because I would've fired you anyway."

FMLA Leave expanded to Provide Leave for Members of the Armed Forces' Families

Employee or Independent Contractor?

Fifth Circuit Rules on Validity of FMLA Notice Regulations

Laying the Groundwork for an Effective Termination

Increase in Federal Minimum Wage, With More to Follow

Labor Code Trumps Hospital Lien - Hospital Charges Satisfied By Accepting Comp Payment

Don't pay me now, don't pay me later (unless I complain now)

Nonsubscriber - No Duty Defense

Employees Can "Report" of Violations of Law Even if in Doubt

Unemployment Claims In Cases Where You Have Given a Severance Package

Covenants Not to Compete

Imputing a Supervisor's Knowledge

Sexual Harassment

Collection of a Third Party

Arbitration

Retaliation Claims

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedy

Enforced At-Will Employee Arbitration Agreements

Dependent Care Assistance Plan Regulations

Nonsubscriber - Duty to Warn