Death On the Job: Not Quite as Bad as it Sounds

I was shocked this morning on one of the business news summaries I get to see a report that 150 Americans die from hazardous working conditi...

The Evolution of Employment Law

When I started practicing, 40 years ago, the law of employment was still covered in the legal treatises under the law of Master and Servant....

A Labor Reporter: Steven Greenhouse

The Washington Post has a great interview with someone who spent the last 30 years covering the labor beat for the New York Times, Steven Gr...

Where is our Portal to Portal Act of 2014? Supreme Court Decision in Integrity Staffing v. Busk

First, the good news. The Supreme Court today unanimously held that post-shift security checks, even when required by the employer were nonc...

5th Circuit Takes Expansive View of SOX

While I was starting a week long trial in the Southern District of Texas, the 5th Circuit was taking a wide, pro-employee view of Sarbanes O...

Implicit Bias: A Brave New World

Implicit bias as a concept has been bubbling around the world of employment discrimination for a few years now. Although the fact that Googl...

5th Circuit Weighs In On Religious Discrmination

Yesterday's post about the difficulty that courts have in dealing with religious discrimination, see  Not Off to a Good Start and Onionh...

Not Off to a Good Start and Onionhead: the newest religion?

Six weeks ago, on the 12th anniversary of this blog, I indicated that I would see if last year's lack of posting would continue and whet...

12 Years Ago

I posted the initial post on this blog. A dozen years is a long time to keep anything going, although you could seriously question whether o...

How Disruptive Can an Aggressive NLRB Be in a Non-Union Setting? More Than You Might Think

If you are a non-union employer (and overwhelmingly most employers are) you might not have given much thought to your how your confidentiali...