Insights

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently struck down a Department of Labor regulation that allowed an otherwise ineligible employee to obtain benefits under the Family Medical Leave Act (the...

As jury verdicts continue to soar (see What Damages Cap? Significant Jury Awards in Employment Cases in 1999), many employers have looked to mandatory arbitration agreements to limit the expense and uncertainty of employment...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, has ruled that employers have a fiduciary duty to respond to employee inquiries regarding potential changes to employee benefit plans covered by the Employee...

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently issued a decision that limits the ability of employees to use of an employer’s customer list to set up a competing business, ruling that customer information may be protectible...

As many out-of-state companies have learned to their regret, California (unlike virtually every other state) has a strong public policy against the enforcement of restrictive covenants in the employment context, such as...

As of January 1, 2000, employers in California who offer paid sick leave to their employees are required to allow those employees to use up to one-half of their yearly accrued sick leave to attend to a child, parent or spouse...

On January 21, 2000, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York affirmed summary judgment for an employer whose recording of employee telephone conversations had been challenged as a violation of federal...

On December 20, 1999, a jury in San Francisco awarded $180,000 in compensatory damages and $1,080,000 in punitive damages to a former employee who was terminated by reason of her refusal to sign a non-compete...

Many employers, seeking to avoid the risks and expense inherent in jury trials of wrongful discharge and discrimination claims, require their employees to enter into agreements under which all employment-related disputes are...

California employers are all too familiar with claims of wrongful discharge by terminated employees who allege that they were party to an implied contract with the employer, under which they could not be discharged without...