The National Law Journal has a fun article today about costumes in the workplace with an ominous warning about "naughty nurses" in the workplace:
[L]abor and employment attorneys are warning
employers that the annual holiday could get scary — in a legal way — if costumes, or a work party, get out of hand.
Specifically, costumes
At the CBIA Annual Meeting last night, I had the pleasure of hearing a keynote address by Elizabeth Teisberg, co-author of the book: Redefining Health Care: Creating a Value-Based Competition on Results. Her presentation focused on the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to health care reform — one that controls costs, improves patient outcomes and
The Connecticut Appellate Court today ruled that an employer did not wrongfully discharge an employee who refused to participate in a return to work medical examination. The Court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows for medical examinations in certain situations and that the employer was justified in asking for one in this case.
In Joyner v.
News about the WARN Act keeps surfacing in e
verything from law firm closings to bakery layoffs.
While I’ve touched on the subject before, the Connecticut Law Tribune this week published a longer piece that I’ve written on the basics of the act for employers, particularly those in Connecticut. You can download the article here.
Continuing a theme this week of followups to older posts, back in February the U.S. Supreme Court, in Larue v. DeWolff, ruled that the Employee R
etirement Income Security Act (ERISA) allows an employee to sue his employer because of a fiduciary breach that resulted in individual losses to his 401(k) plan.
Some predicted that the "Court’s
About a year ago, I recapped a lawsuit brought by two former employees at the CHRO who claimed their employment was terminated improperly.
At the time, I said that the complaint, brought by Valerie Kennedy and Paula Ross, "paints a picture of an organization run-a-muck with those who are charged with protecting against discrimination, as
In this blog, I often focus on the substantive law prohibiting discrimination cases, such as those 
under ADEA. But a case decided late last week demonstrates the importance of making sure that employees follow the procedural requirements required by law under anti-discrimination provisions..
In Cassotto v. Potter (D.Conn, Oct. 21, 2008) (Hall, J.) (download here)
So what’s going to happen after the election with various employment law proposals? Well, you’ll have to wait for the election to really see what happen at a federal level. After all, part of it still depends on who is elected to the White House and how many se
ats the Democrats control in Congress.
As short as blog entries are, on a daily basis there are several other topics or articles that are worth covering or mentioning. Until now, I’ve struggled with how to incorporate them into this blog. After all, as the saying goes, there are only so many hours in the day and lots of work to
One of Connecticut’s many nicknames is the "Constitution State", so named for the state’s adoption of the first state Constitution. (Delaware holds the distiction of the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution for those history buffs).
But on the ballot in two weeks is a question asking if the state should hold its