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While you can sue an employer for emotional distress in Michigan, workers' compensation law limits an employee's legal options.

I read an interesting opinion piece in The Boston Globe about how a sexual harassment policy nearly ruined Patrick Witt’s (the former quarterback for Yale University) life.

Have you recently been let go from your job and feel something isn't right? Losing a job can be difficult enough, but being wrongfully terminated adds another layer of stress.

Members of works councils ("WC members") enjoy special protection from dismissal. One persistent misunderstanding is that it is impossible for employers to dismiss WC members.

In Rooney v. Rock Tenn Converting Company, et. al., the Eighth Circuit affirmed judgment against a former sales executive who alleged he was terminated for not being Jewish and not being female.

Employers must create and enforce procedures to report and correct sexually harassing conduct.

In this three-part series, we are exploring best practices for handling a charge of discrimination.

New York has historically been known as a bedrock of employment-at-will. Its legislature and courts were long resistant to permitting exceptions to this doctrine

Hospitals that require caregivers to be immunized against influenza are often sued to force them to exempt employees with religious objections from getting the shots.

There's been another flip-flop at the National Labor Relations Board. The target this time? Severance agreements.

Was the removal of an shareholder-employee as an officer an employment claim or a breach of duty and shareholder oppression?

The Supreme Court of Virginia recently issued an opinion applying the principles of res judicata to affirm the dismissal of a contract claim.

An area of serious concern for companies employing UK national employees to work outside of the UK relates to the jurisdictional reach of UK courts in relation to the employment of those individuals.

A New Jersey employer faces a lawsuit after an AI transcription tool allegedly captured supervisors discussing their preference for a "strapping young man" to replace a terminated female employee. The case raises critical questions about the admissibility of AI-generated evidence in court and highlights the risks employers face when using virtual meeting platforms with automated transcription features.

When employees organize workplace protests about external political issues, can employers lawfully terminate them for policy violations? A recent NLRB Advice Memorandum examines whether Microsoft's discharge of two employees who protested the Gaza war on campus was protected under the National Labor Relations Act, offering critical guidance on when activism loses legal protection due to insufficient connection to workplace concerns.

Recently the Supreme Court granted certiorari in one case of interest to the business community. Amicus briefs in support of the petitioner will be due on December 22, 2005, and amicus briefs in support of the respondent will be due on January 26, 2006.

A pro se Private Attorneys General Act plaintiff was engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, a California appellate court held in an unpublished decision, affirming dismissal of the action.

The National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") recently held that that the "mere proffer" of severance agreements with boilerplate type confidentiality...