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Surviving Employment Background Checks: Five Tips for Applicants With Troubled Backgrounds
Many employers require a background check before finalizing a job offer to a prospective employee. While there are various protections in place to ensure an...
Department of Labor’s Proposed Rules May Extend Overtime Benefits to Nearly 5 Million Workers
In late May, Attorney Johnson posted an article foreshadowing the long-awaited revisions coming to the Department of Labor’s regulations on certain overtime pay exemptions. Earlier...
Fibromyalgia and Long Term Disability Insurance Claims
Do you suffer from chronic, widespread pain and a heightened response to pressure on your body? Do you feel tired all the time and have...
Whistleblower’s Risks Can Yield High Rewards when Exposing Companies Defrauding the Federal Government
Many employees face a difficult decision in confronting their employer’s illegal actions. Often, an employee with knowledge of such actions must weigh the risks of...
WI Workers Comp Prohibits Requiring Workers to Use Vacation, Sick Time, or Paid Time Off for Time Missed Due to a Work Injury
Injured workers often use vacation, sick time, or other forms of paid time off for time they have to miss work or go to doctor...
Is Your Employer Monitoring Your Activities During Off-Work Time?
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...
Barring the Courthouse Door: Employees Harmed by Mandatory Arbitration
An employee’s ability to have legal disputes heard and resolved in a court of law is an important right. Unfortunately, employers have been chipping away...
Wage Theft: Breaking Wage Laws Continues to Be Amazingly Common
Our wage team recently attended the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) wage conference, a biannual opportunity for lawyers who represent employees in wage claims to...
“Extraordinary” Workplace Stress Under WI Workers Comp
What makes work stress “extraordinary” under worker’s compensation? Work-related injuries are a lot easier to claim and prove when diagnostic testing, such as an MRI...