An employee on short-term disability is ready to come back. HR tells them they need a release from the doctor who took them off work. Fair enough. Then HR adds a twist: tell us when the appointment is so we
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Catching the thief red-handed isn't enough to win a trade secrets case
You can prove trade secrets theft cold and still lose the injunction.
That’s the lesson from the 6th Circuit’s recent decision in UEC Holdings v. Hatcher.
Steven Hatcher was VP of the utility division at United Electric, a Kentucky
Your shift supervisors can't have it both ways with tipped wages
Bartending doesn’t launder a manager’s cut of the tip pool. That’s the entire lesson of a recent Department of Labor Opinion Letter.
Here’s the setup. A restaurant has servers “tip out” a percentage of sales to bartenders, hosts, and
Three commutes; zero compensation
The Department of Labor just answered a question a lot of employers have been wondering about: if an employee splits her day between home and office, who pays for the drive in between?
TL;DR: Splitting the workday between home and
6 tips to stop a thief within your business
The two-day mistake that sent retaliation claim to trial
Two days.
That’s the entire gap between John Shoemaker asking McKesson Corp. for FMLA leave and McKesson telling him he was fired. A federal judge just said that two-day gap alone survives summary judgment.Shoemaker was a Senior Director overseeing McKesson’s
Reprehensible conduct, forgettable price tag
“What may be awesome punishment for an impecunious individual defendant may be wholly insufficient to influence the behavior of a prosperous corporation.”That’s the 3rd Circuit, not me. And it’s the whole ballgame in Holmes v. American HomePatient.Here’s what earned
The fist inside the velvet glove
“The inherent danger in well-timed increases in benefits is the suggestion of a fist inside the velvet glove.”That’s the 5th Circuit, describing what Starbucks did to its Buffalo stores once a union showed up. The court’s recent opinion in Starbucks
