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The District of New Jersey ruled recently that filing a workers’ compensation claim does not qualify as protected activity sufficient to trigger protection from the Conscientious Employee Protection Act ("CEPA") or the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("LAD").

A few weeks ago, I posted about the unique (i.e. strange) situation of the plaintiff’s lawyer in this case seeking to depose his own client.

Carrier Global Corp. and Brian Kime, its former associate director of threat intelligence, have reached a private settlement in his Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) suit. Kime contended that his 2024 layoff, which occurred alongside other workers over age 40, was illegal age discrimination after the company replaced him with a younger worker.

The "cat's paw" doctrine applies when an employee is subjected to an adverse employment action by a decision maker who does not have any discriminatory animus...

A challenge to Seattle's ordinance which established the right for on-demand drivers to collectively bargain, was dismissed by a Washington federal court on the basis that the suing entity lacked standing.

The recent hacking attack against the Houston Astros is a wake-up call for all employers: no organization is safe from its adversaries' attempts to steal proprietary information to gain a leg up in the competition

Vigilant employers are taking steps to evaluate or re-assess the status of their compliance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the similar laws of other jurisdictions.

In TIBCO Software, Inc. v. Zephyr Health, Inc. and Kevin Willoe, the court denied an employer's motion for a temporary restraining order enforcing a non-compete...

In a class action settlement that was recently granted final approval, Publix Super Markets Inc. agreed to pay nearly $6.8 million in a class action lawsuit settlement...

More and more clients have been asking me whether it is wise to require employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements.

On Friday, in a major victory for employers, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals fell into line with Supreme Court precedent and held that courts must enforce arbitration agreements that permit an employee to pursue claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act only through individual arbitration.

On September 18, 2014, the ABA’s Labor & Employment Law Section sponsored a program called "SOX, OSHA and Beyond: Litigating Whistleblower Claims at the DOL.

On February 16, 2016, a federal district court in Indiana held that former athletes at the University of Pennsylvania were not university employees entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Colorado, like some other states including New York, has a law that generally prohibits an employer from discharging an employee for engaging in lawful activities outside of work.

Colorado’s Supreme Court recently heard arguments on whether an employer can lawfully terminate an employee for off-the-job use of medical marijuana.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided a case that every employer will need to understand in order to stay on the right side of federal religious discrimination law.

Christina Stoneburner was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article "Common Documentation Mistakes Can Hurt Employers in the Courtroom, Attorneys Warn."