The Law of Unintended Consequences: Immigration and E-Verify

A recent article in Businesweek, A Verification System for New Hires Backfires makes clear just how complex the immigration issue is. The s...

Missed This New Jersey MDV the First Time Around

I was in Lubbock yesterday talking to their SHRM chapter about retaliation and the dangers of those cases, along with its first cousin whist...

A Timely Follow Up -- The Importance of Action Not Words

Given the topic of my previous post  --- the need for employers to step up and make sure they dealt with bullying behavior rather than leavi...

Giving Aid to the Enemy: The Healthy Workplace Act Explained

David Yamada who posts at Minding the Workplace is also the author of a model bill, The Healthy Workplace Act (HWB), designed to address bul...

Disparate Impact and the Non-Traditional Plaintiff

At the start of the year, I noted that one thing that seemed to be a "trend" was litigation by non-minority plaintiffs. See, 2011 ...

Maybe Not So Ho Hum at the Supreme Court: FLSA and Wal-Mart v. Dukes

In addition to denying cert on the USERRA hostile environment case (see yesterday's post ), the Supreme Court yesterday also reversed an...

First Monday in October - Ho Hum for L&E Types

Tomorrow marks the start of the Supreme Court's new term, and at least for private sector Labor and Employment types, there's not a ...