Suzanne Lucas (“Evil HR Lady”) makes a compelling case in a recent Inc. article for a holiday moratorium on terminations, echoing attorney Todd Stanton’s wisdom that “surprised people get angry, and angry people sue.”
I agree—particularly on two fronts. First, avoid mass layoffs between Thanksgiving and New Year’s if you can; the optics, morale hit
A new trend is appearing in HR offices and legal departments across the country: Employee complaints and legal documents that seem professionally written but show clear signs of being created with generative AI.
I’m not referring to employees getting legal advice from ChatGPT (which, as of this week, ChatGPT itself says it shouldn’t be used
With a college graduate in the family, I’m hearing first hand of the trials and tribulations of the current job market.
One of the items that I hear and read about, is the rising use of AI tools for screening and hiring.
There’s a big hole right now in regulation of this practice, with just
Season 4, Episode 2 breaks down what employers really need to know
In our latest From Lawyer to Employer podcast episode, I sat down with my colleague Sarah Niemiroski to tackle one of the most requested topics from our recent fall seminar at Hotel Marcel: Connecticut’s increasingly complex web of leave laws.
If you’re
I recently learned about a company planning an active shooter drill that made my jaw drop. Their plan? Stage a hyper-realistic scenario with fake guns, fake blood, actors playing attackers, and here’s the kicker: don’t tell employees it’s a drill until after it happens. The thinking apparently is that this will give employees the “most
A new decision from the state Appellate Court, Paniccia v. Success Village Apartments, Inc., delivers some clarity for employers facing wage claims under Connecticut General Statutes § 31-72. The bottom line? When employees win wage cases, the “costs” they can recover are limited to statutory taxable costs—not every litigation expense they incurred.
Earlier this week, I presented “Leave it to the Lawyers: Navigating the Maze of Employee Leave Laws” at our firm’s Labor & Employment Fall Seminar at Hotel Marcel. Along with my colleagues Sarah Niemiroski and Claire Pariano, we tackled the alphabet soup of FMLA, CT FMLA, PFMLA, PSL, and ADA requirements.
It was so
Last week, I talked about how smart arbitration drafting allowed the company to recover its attorneys fees in successfully defending a claim by a former CEO. But there’s another lesson from Golden v. WorldQuant that company should know: how four simple words in a termination letter can save employers from a legal trap.
Two big items today: Season 4 of the ever-popular “From Lawyer to Employer” podcast kicks off this week and we have news of an in-person seminar too. And if you listen to the podcast, you can learn more about the seminar too.
In the latest episode of our “From Lawyer to Employer” podcast, I
The Connecticut Appellate Court just released Golden v. WorldQuant Predictive Technologies, LLC, and while the decision covers several arbitration issues (more on another one of those in a future post), there’s one lesson that should have companies reviewing their arbitration clauses: a well-drafted attorney fee provision can be the difference between winning and actually