Correctly handling an employee's medical or mental condition, especially one that requires a gap in working, can be complicated and stressful for everyone involved, including the HR representative, well-meaning supervisors and the employee themselves.

How Life Science Employers Can Ensure Restrictive Covenants Survive a Restructuring

With up to five generations in the workforce today, employers need to be cognizant of the risk of age discrimination claims that could result from hiring

In their article for Today's General Counsel titled "Unions Strike Back," Todd Lyon, co-chair of Fisher Phillips' Labor Relations practice, and associate Lisa Vickery ...

The NLRB has announced its intention of rewriting the definition of "employee" to prevent graduate and undergraduate students at higher education institutions from forming unions

A recent SHRM article describes that DOL will now be responsible for posting the ads on an upgraded version of its electronic job registry

While, to many people, age only matters when it comes to wine and cheese, it is without doubt that age is becoming more of an issue in the workplace.

Los Angeles Attorney Discusses Transgender Workplace Protections and Policies.

A growing number of states and cities are banning questions about an applicants salary history. The move is designed to help close the pay gap by stopping new salaries from being set off

Healthcare employees are nearly five times more likely than workers in other industries to be victims of workplace violence, which led OSHA to release guidelines for preventing violence.

Workers not treated as "employees" are often not entitled to statutory safeguards, and this has the potential to raise several occupational health and safety considerations for gig economy workers.

In an Op-Ed published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ed Foulke reviews the credentials of the new U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.

In his byline article for Cyber Defense eMagazine titled "Employers Catch One-Year Break on Impending California Privacy Law

In his byline article for QSR Magazine titled "Don't Get Burned When Hiring Minors," Irvine Partner Tyler Woods discusses...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Title VII's administrative exhaustion requirement is a claim-processing rule, and not a jurisdictional bar to filing a lawsuit.

With a recent advice memo, the NLRB general counsel's office added to the growing guidelines for employers to use when crafting sound social media policies.

In their article for the California Lawyers Association, San Diego attorneys Jason Fischbein and Adam Sloustcher outline how an employer classifies its workers has ...

As auto dealers and many other business owners have discovered, the opioid crisis is having a significant impact on the American workforce. Employers have been forced to address the crisis in many way

Ever wonder what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) would do if an employer refused to pay a fine?

Even when a company learns information submitted in an injury report to OSHA is incorrect, it is unlikely the company can stop a subsequent OSHA inspection