That headline sort of says it all, doesn’t it?
Yes, as of this morning, I am now a partner at Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Hartford, CT in its Labor, Employment & Benefits Practice Area.
It’s big for a partner to change firms in Connecticut. Not nearly as big as, say Nate Silver and his
We’ve been waiting a while for a few U.S. Supreme Court cases to come down that have an impact on employment law. And the court didn’t disappoint. They are blockbuster cases when it comes to employment law.
In the first of two decisions this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court released Vance v. Ball State University
The American Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Law Annual Conference is going on right now in Atlanta, Georgia. As I’ve recapped on this blog before (here, for example), there are some terrific programs and educational opportunities there.
I wasn’t able to make it down this year, but due to the wonders of technology,
For those who are uninitiated, each month an employment law blog hosts a “carnival” with links to various posts from other blogs with a theme typically attached. Candidly, it’s a relic from a bygone era before social media made sharing easy.
But a carnival is a
The Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO) has released proposed new regulations that would require state agencies and the like to create an Equal Employment Opportunity Plan.
These regulations would not apply to private employers so many of you can dispense with the worrying.
The proposed regulations will replace the current ones. The
A confession.
I’m a little tired about writing about social media and labor law. Perhaps you are a little tired about reading about it too.
Unfortunately for us both, expect a lot more about it over the next years because the National Labor Relations Board has social media in its sights and its not
I’ve been meaning to write a post about work songs since I started this blog. (In fact, back in 2008, I noted that I would write about it in an upcoming post. Three years later…)
But it never felt important enough. Too frivolous. Just a simple post about songs.
I was thinking about that again tonight when I heard of Steve Jobs death. So sad. Such a loss to society. He was serious but didn’t take himself too seriously. And he also had some wonderful visions.
He once said that: “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
And so, I come back to the post that I have really just wanted to write and have fun with. What are the top “work” songs? Rather than wait another three years to do a blog post on this, now seems appropriate. “The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t,” Jobs once said.Continue Reading What Are My Favorite “Work” Songs On My iPod? Steve Jobs Knows.
Last month, I discussed a very notable decision in D’Antuono v. Service Road Corp. in which the federal court — relying in part on the Supreme Court’s decision in AT&T Mobility — ordered two exotic dancers to arbitrate their employment-related claims.
A few days ago, the same district court allowed the dancers to take an
As I’ve done for other holidays (see prior posts here and here) , I was fully prepared today to warn of the dangers for employers of April Fools Day. Google, for example, has an announcement on a new way to communicate today.
But alas, in all of Westlaw, I could only find two cases