employment

• Labor: The new face of discrimination

  By Jeremy Hawpe  |  May 21, 2012

  Employers have seen increasing government intervention into the employment relationship.

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  Labor: EEOC issues final rule on reasonable factors other than age under the ADEA

  By Wendy Voss, Lindsay Clizbe  |  May 21, 2012

  On March 30the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published its final rule, meant to clarify the “reasonable factors other than age” (RFOA) defense available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)

• Technology: Liability dangers raised by social media

  By Terence Connor  |  May 18, 2012

  Employers, imagine that your employees’ use of Facebook and Twitter is akin to being at the controls of a forklift.

• Labor: EEOC issues guidance on using criminal records to make employment decisions

  By John Kuenstler  |  May 14, 2012

  The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued “Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

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  Internal investigators not protected from retaliation

  By Julie Beck  |  May 10, 2012

  No good deed goes unpunished, so they say, and that’s certainly the case in Wednesday’s 2nd Circuit ruling

• Labor: 4 tips to help managers avoid employment litigation

  By Jeremy Hawpe  |  May 7, 2012

  Managers, team leaders and frontline supervisors today face an incredible number of challenges, including reorganization problems, competition on an international basis and the infusion of technology and attendant changes that follow

• Inside Experts: Striking a balance between censoring your employees and protecting your company’s brand online

  By Eric Esperne  |  May 4, 2012

  My son was born at the end of the Millennial generation. He is 11 years old and owns an iPod and a MacBook Pro.

• Labor: When unpaid interns become unpaid employees

  By John Kuenstler  |  April 30, 2012

  Many students at every education level from high school through graduate school—and even some graduates—view unpaid internships as an opportunity to gain valuable work experience and, ideally, as a stepping stone to gainful employment.

• Protecting corporate intellectual property from the inside

  By Tom O'Connor, Gavin Manes  |  April 27, 2012

  Companies go to great lengths to protect their intellectual property from competitors, but one of the biggest threats to their assets may be from their own employees.

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  Labor: City- and state-mandated employee benefits

  By Wendy Voss, Lindsay Clizbe  |  April 23, 2012

  In recent years, states and cities have enacted various laws requiring private employers to provide certain benefits to their employees beyond those benefits mandated by federal law or traditionally mandated under state law, such as workers’ or unemployment compensation.