Employment Law
Retention Agreements Affect Your Employment and Financial Future
Retention Agreements May Affect Your Employment and Financial Future When companies merge and acquire one another, their employees can face an uncertain future. If you...
Labor Board Overturns Dismissal Due To Facebook Post
NLRB Overturns Firing Based on Facebook Post Federal Law Protects Employee Concerted Activities on Social Media In 2012, a former employee of Butler Medical...
Attorney Aaron Halstead, “Refusal to Rehire” Expert
Generally, Wisconsin’s “at will” employment doctrine allows an employer to legally fire an employee at any time, for most any reason. After an on-the-job work...
Sexual Orientation Discrimination is Sex Discrimination Under Title VII
Seventh Circuit Issues Landmark Decision Concerning Employment Rights for the Gay and Lesbian Community Sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination under Title VII...
Read Your Employment-Related Agreements Carefully: They May Be Unenforceable
Have you signed a noncompetition agreement? A confidentiality agreement? A nonsolicitation of employees’ agreement? Does your employment agreement include one or more of these provisions? ...
7th Circuit Limits Employers’ Arbitration Agreements from Preventing Employee Concerted Activity
In May 2016, the Seventh Circuit weighed in on a topic that has been at the forefront of employment and labor law in recent years:...
Sexual Harassment at Work – Wisconsin Legal Standards
Donald Trump and Locker Room Talk: Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in Wisconsin Donald Trump, a candidate with a known history of objectifying women,...
DOL Issues Final Rule for Providing Paid Sick Leave to Federal Contractors
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced it will issue a final rule to implement Executive Order 13706, which provides paid sick leave to federal...
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination Suits Focus on Equal Pay for Equal Work
FIGHTING PAY DISCRIMINATION TO ESTABLISH EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK Pay discrimination is a persistent problem for women in the workforce. Recent research shows that...