by Katherine Charlton | Oct 12, 2015 | Employment Law, Katherine Charlton
With increasing frequency, employers ask new hires to sign restrictive covenants, contracts designed to limit an employee’s ability to compete with the employer when the employment relationship ends. A recent Seventh Circuit decision may give some Wisconsin employees...
by Katherine Charlton | May 20, 2015 | Employment Law, Katherine Charlton
A California sales executive filed a lawsuit on May 5, 2015, challenging her termination from employment after she disabled a GPS tracking device on her employer-provided iPhone, shining a spotlight on the reasonable expectation of privacy of employees and employers’...
by Katherine Charlton | Jan 7, 2015 | Employment Law, Katherine Charlton
A recent Court of Appeals decision highlights the fact that undocumented workers do have some legal rights under federal and state law. Employers may not disregard the Wisconsin FMLA simply because an employee is working illegally. Case Study: Burlington Graphic...
by Katherine Charlton | Aug 13, 2014 | Employment Law, Katherine Charlton
While an employer may terminate an employee for a variety of reasons, those reasons may not justify withholding wages owed the employee. In a recent Wisconsin case, American Concrete Leveling Corp. (ACL) withheld wages owed an employee because it claimed the employee...
by Katherine Charlton | Jun 2, 2014 | Employment Law, Katherine Charlton
Effective April 9, 2014, Act 208 prohibits employers, regardless of size, and including the State of Wisconsin, from requiring employees or applicants to provide passwords or other “access information” to social media sites, or other personal Internet-based accounts....
