Minnesota CLE is planning a really impressive-looking CLE for the experienced employment law practitioner on January 29, 2010 in Minneapolis. It includes sessions on the intersection between employment law and
executive compensation
employee benefits
OSHA
bankruptcy
taxation of settlements and awards, and
intellectual property.
It will also include insights from corporate attorneys on contract negotiation, data privacy, and handling government enforcement.
(It is true [...]
The EEOC has sued a nationwide convention company alleging a pattern or practice of unlawful discrimination because the company has rejected job applicants based on their credit history, or if they have had one or more of various types of criminal charges or convictions. The EEOC alleges that this practice has had an unlawful discriminatory [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor has updated its Employment Law Guide, an online publication that describes the major employment laws administered by the department. The Guide is designed to help employers understand many of the laws affecting the workplace, including wage, benefit, safety and health, and nondiscrimination policies.
The Employment Law Guide is a [...]
The new federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) takes effect for employers with over 15 employees this Saturday, November 21, 2009. Some are calling this the “most important new anti-discrimination law in two decades.”
The new law prohibits employers from requesting or considering genetic testing or genetic background information in hiring, firing or promotions. More specifically, [...]
What I find most interesting in this article about stopping workplace gossip is not the company’s use of an “agreement to values” which prohibits back-stabbing, gossiping and the like; its the use of color-coded name plates to advise what communication style a particular employee prefers. Red is for those who are direct and to the [...]
Things should be interesting in St. Paul on Wednesday when my former partner, Magistrate Judge Janie Mayeron, hears a discovery motion in a sex discrimination case brought against frozen-food company Schwan’s by a former employee, Kim Milliren.
Milliren was accepted into a Schwan’s manager training program intended to prepare her for a position overseeing one of [...]
This has nothing to do with employment law, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to highlight this article from the Chicago Tribune about my brother-in-law, Dave Taiclet (a/k/a The Candy Man).
I am sure that the fact that I am not mentioned as one of his sources of inspiration was merely an editing oversight by [...]
I ran across this interesting post in the Workplace Prof Blog on sexual favoritism. It reminded me that the EEOC treats sexual favoritism as a subset of sexual harassment. According to the EEOC, sexual favoritism can constitute a Title VII violation, but only if it is “widespread.” The EEOC Policy Guidance on Employer Liability under Title VII [...]
Seth Leventhal, in his excellent blog Minnesota Litigator, points out what many of us have known for a long time: Minnesota lawyers are a “bargain” compared to their brethern from Chicago and the coasts. While the blended hourly rate charged by Minnesota lawyers representing one of the Petters defendants was $309, their Chicago counterparts were [...]
