Labor & Employment

The National Law Review provides readers with news coverage and issues, involving working and labor and employment law in the United States, and how it affects employers, employees, major corporations and executives throughout the country.  Current trends like whistleblower protection and employees' rights concerning disclosure of information about their corporate employer or government employer if the employer is engaged in illegal activities and protection for employees concerning retaliation due to whistleblower complaints.

The National Law Review offers in-depth analysis of some of the major federal agencies/governing bodies that impact employer/employee relationships.  Analysis of the make-up of the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) as well as analysis of the major decisions coming from that board are covered by the legal experts at the National Law Review.  Additionally, news and guidance, as well as staffing changes at the Department of Labor are also covered and analyzed, with legal experts providing insight into what has happened, and what might happen as a result.  Updates from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and their interpretations and guidelines on specific regulations related to worker safety, like the Silica standard, are also covered by NLR. 

Changes in employment law based on state developments, and issues that impact employer procedures in hiring and interviewing hiring, such as how ban the box legislation impacts hiring as well prohibitions against asking about previous salary levels, and employer reviews sites like Glassdoor are covered by the National Law Review.  As states and cities pass and amend employment-related legislation, the National Law Review carefully analyzes the implications of these changes to provide background information for companies seeking to stay compliant.

Some of the subjects covered on the site include employment and compensation agreements, employment violations in the workplace, non compete and arbitration agreements, the #MeToo Movement and sexual harassment, sex-discrimination cases, employee handbooks and policies, wellness programs, and how to properly train employees, especially given the number of employment-related lawsuits and EEOC enforcement actions. are addressed by the National Law Review

Readers can also learn about employment agreements in areas including the use of personal email accounts, electronic devices, and email/internet policies in the workplace. With data and security being a hot-topic in recent months, the National Law Review has the latest details about data protection policies, encryption, and data security and employee privacy rights within organizations. Topics like pay equity/gender pay gap issues, affirmative action disputes, civil rights actions, business immigration laws, disability accommodations, ERISA policies, unfair competition, workplace privacy, whistleblower lawsuits, wrongful termination, and trade secrets, are all cases and stories visitors will find on the National Law Review website.

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Aug
13
2014
“STOP”: Four Tips For Document Preservation When Facing Potential Litigation McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jul
20
2012
“Stay Put” Provisions For Professional Educational Personnel in West Virginia Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Feb
13
2019
“Stand-Alone” REALLY Does Mean Stand-Alone and the Quest for Clarity Foley & Lardner LLP
Feb
18
2019
“Stand-Alone” REALLY Does Mean Stand-Alone - Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Interprets the FCRA Foley & Lardner LLP
Nov
18
2015
“Socially Responsible” Investing Under ERISA: New DOL Guidance Faegre Drinker
May
21
2018
“Smoking Guns” and Unofficial Rules: A Reminder for Employers Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct
21
2015
“Small Doses” of Non-Educational Work Did Not Turn Students into Employees Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Mar
10
2016
“Single, Company-wide Time-shaving Policy” Can Consist Of “Multiple Methods” In FLSA Collective Action Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Sep
3
2014
“Significant Evidence of Untruthfulness” During FMLA Leave Gives Employer “Honest Belief” to Terminate Plaintiff Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jun
12
2017
“Show Time!” for the US Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
May
1
2017
“Shifting” Away From Hourly Pay ... Be Aware of Potential Pitfalls Foley & Lardner LLP
Mar
12
2014
“Sex-Plus” Discrimination Equals Possible Liability, Part II McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
10
2014
“Sex-Plus” Discrimination Equals Possible Liability McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Feb
21
2019
“Scabby the Rat” Deflated When The Seventh Circuit Moves His Cheese (US) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
12
2018
“Say on Pay” Hasn’t Gone A-Way Under Tax Reform, Reminds ISS* Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
1
2017
“Right to disconnect” in France – More to this than you might have read Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
1
2021
“Retention Raises” May Be Unlawful Employment Discrimination, Says Federal Appeals Court Zuckerman Law
Dec
18
2014
“Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights” to Take Effect in San Francisco Impacting Retailers, Janitorial Firms and Security Services Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Oct
2
2018
“Regarded As” Disability Claim Does Not Require Proof of an Employer’s Subjective Belief Jackson Lewis P.C.
Nov
3
2015
“Red River Rivalry” Reaches Right To Restrict Employment Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Sep
30
2010
“Reasonable” Security: The FTC Requires It, But What Is "Reasonable" Security? Poyner Spruill LLP
Feb
10
2016
“Reasonable Cause” Standard Highlighted In OSHA’s Revised Whistleblower Investigations Manual Proskauer Rose LLP
May
18
2017
“Real” Requirements of Fiduciary Rule: Interesting Angles on DOL’s Fiduciary Rule #47 Faegre Drinker
Feb
8
2016
“Put Up or Shut Up:” The Third Circuit Denies Former Tyco Employee’s SOX Whistleblower Claim Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
21
2019
“Proselytise” (vb): (1) to advocate, persuade, cause to adopt; (2) to take material risks with your continued employment (UK) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
5
2019
“Presents” of Mind for the Holidays: Six Q&As on Sensible Workplace Gift Giving Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Jun
23
2016
“Prepping” for the DOL’s New White-Collar Exemption Rule Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feb
1
2019
“Predictive Hiring Tools” – Buyer Beware Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
19
2017
“Politics Is Not The Art Of The Possible. It Consists In Choosing Between The Disastrous And The Unpalatable”. Main Parties’ Employment Manifestos Reviewed Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jan
25
2024
“Poison-Pill” Provision Voided Entire Arbitration Agreement Proskauer Rose LLP
Jun
28
2017
“Please Sir, Can I Work Some More?”: Child Labor Law Changes Imminent Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
May
19
2014
“Picture Perfect”: NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) ALJ (Administrative Law Judge) Finds Company’s Photographing Of Employees Holding Demonstrations Inside Plant Illegal Along With Its Policy Limiting Employee Photography Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jul
13
2015
“Perceived as” Religious Bias Claims? – A Federal Court in Michigan Says “Yes” Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
9
2019
“Panic Button” Laws Make Their Way Across The U.S. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
28
2022
“Outlook Not So Good” – An Employer’s Guide to the NLRB’s 2023 Agenda Polsinelli PC
 

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