Employment Law
Right to Work Law Struck Down by Dane County Trial Court
Dane County Trial Court Strikes Down Wisconsin’s Right to Work Law In the Summer 2015 edition of the Messenger, I discussed Wisconsin’s new Right to...
Can You Legally Record Work Meetings? And Should You?
We regularly receive questions from potential clients about whether they should audiorecord work meetings, and whether recording meetings is even legal. The vast majority of...
WI Supreme Court Decision May Weaken Whistleblower Law
Wisconsin Supreme Court Decision Substantially Limits Whistleblower Protection Under Wisconsin State Law Whistleblower protections for public sector employees may be significantly reduced as a consequence...
Anxious You Might Lose Your Job? Four Steps to Take to Protect Your Employment
4 Steps Toward Protecting Your Employment and/or Bolstering a Wrongful Termination Case Employees often seek our counsel when the prospects of saving their jobs are...
Compensation for Unused Leave and Commissions
When an employment relationship ends, voluntarily or otherwise, employees typically want to receive all pay owed to them. If employees have accrued sick leave, vacation,...
How Mediation Can Make Your Employment Dispute Less Painful
If an employee asserts legal claims against his current or former employer, mediation may offer a lower-stress alternative to lawsuits for the resolution of those...
NLRB Holds Its Ground on Illegality of Mandatory Individual Arbitration
Big companies have been imposing mandatory individual arbitration on consumers and employees for years. But the corporate motivation behind individual arbitration and its detrimental impact...
Does an Employer Owe Severance Pay if They Fire You?
Workers who have recently been laid off or fired often wonder if they are entitled to “severance pay” or a “severance package,” generically defined as...
Seventh Circuit Finds Employee Restrictive Covenants in a Highly Competitive Industry Unenforceable
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...