Employment Law FORUM ARCHIVE
Over the past 45 years, legislators, regulators, and courts have invented and imposed on the American workplace a vast and ambitious new body of law ranging from harassment and handicap-accommodation law to age discrimination law to family leave to new common-law doctrines making employers liable for "wrongful termination," "workplace defamation," and much more. Practicing lawyers refer to this new field as employment law, and distinguish it from the earlier labor law associated with the New Deal. . . . Continue reading...
McGovern on card check By Walter Olson, 08-08-2008 CPSC bill headed to President, etc. By Carter Wood, 08-01-2008 CPSC bill, increasing litigation, regulation, litigation By Carter Wood, 07-30-2008 Comparable worth, under any other name, still invites lawsuits By Carter Wood, 07-24-2008 July 30: Chamber ILR event canceled By Walter Olson, 07-22-2008 "Pay gap" mythology By Walter Olson, 07-14-2008 Around the web, July 14 By Walter Olson, 07-13-2008 Carrie Lukas on the Obama equal pay pander By James R. Copland, 06-25-2008 Obama's equal pay gambit By James R. Copland, 06-23-2008 Vicarious wage-hour liability By Walter Olson, 06-19-2008 More on Ricci v. DeStefano By Walter Olson, 06-17-2008 Second Circuit: race-conscious discarding of test results OK By Walter Olson, 06-13-2008 More critiques of Riegel v. Medtronic, preemption By Carter Wood, 06-11-2008 Indiana affirms "workplace bullying" verdict By Walter Olson, 06-01-2008 Flawed Victory, WaPo Says About Discrimination Rulings By Carter Wood, 05-29-2008 We're the AP, we don't have to be fair By Walter Olson, 05-28-2008 Blawg Review #161 By Walter Olson, 05-27-2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-06-2008 Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Passes By Carter Wood, 05-01-2008 Eric Posner on Ledbetter Act By Ted Frank, 04-28-2008 Immunity for the King, Prosecutors and Smithsonian, Too By Carter Wood, 04-27-2008 No Doubt on Genetic Nondiscrimination Act By Carter Wood, 04-24-2008 Genetic Nondiscrimination: Sounds Good, Right? By Carter Wood, 04-24-2008 Ledbetter: Cloture Fails By Carter Wood, 04-23-2008 Fair Pay, Fair Play and Fair Limitations By Carter Wood, 04-23-2008 Ledbetter: The Politics of Scheduling By Carter Wood, 04-23-2008 Another Ledbetter Observation By Carter Wood, 04-22-2008 Ledbetter: No Limitations, Just Litigation By Carter Wood, 04-22-2008 LeRoy: "Do Courts Create Moral Hazard? When Judges Nullify Employer Liability in Arbitrations: An Empirical Analysis" By Ted Frank, 04-14-2008 Connecticut high court finds "implicit" employer duty to accommodate disabled By Walter Olson, 04-13-2008 "Organized Labor's International Law Project?" By Walter Olson, 04-02-2008 Another RICO-for-hiring-illegals suit dismissed By Walter Olson, 03-29-2008 SCOTUS labor/employment law cases By Walter Olson, 03-27-2008 California judge: Starbucks should pay $100 million By Walter Olson, 03-21-2008 Around the web, March 14 By Walter Olson, 03-14-2008 Employment at will in Colorado By Walter Olson, 03-10-2008 RICO in labor-management disputes By Walter Olson, 03-07-2008 AP: "Carpal tunnel cases are plummeting" By Walter Olson, 03-06-2008 "Attorney Faces Criminal Charges After Clients Quit Their Nursing Jobs" By Walter Olson, 03-05-2008 Sexual Harassment: A Strange, Vague "Tort" By Hans Bader, 02-28-2008 Not a "Pro-Business" Supreme Court By Hans Bader, 02-27-2008 It's Not a "Dream Court for American Business" By Hans Bader, 02-27-2008 Sexual Harassment Bait and Switch By Hans Bader, 02-26-2008 Prejudice and Double Standards in Sexual Harassment Cases By Hans Bader, 02-26-2008 Double Standards at Duke -- and in the Courts By Hans Bader, 02-24-2008 WSJ on alien-hiring RICO By Walter Olson, 02-16-2008 Employment at will in New York By Walter Olson, 02-14-2008 Update: court dismisses illegal-hiring RICO suit against Tyson By Walter Olson, 02-13-2008 Sarbox whistleblower law _sans frontieres_ By Walter Olson, 02-12-2008 "IBM responds to overtime lawsuits with 15% salary cuts" By Walter Olson, 01-25-2008 Employee handbooks By Walter Olson, 01-23-2008 Sexual harassment of mall Santas By Walter Olson, 12-20-2007 Connecticut Employment Law Blog By Walter Olson, 12-06-2007 NYC mulls "caregiver discrimination" law By Walter Olson, 12-06-2007 Use and Abuse of the Family and Medical Leave Act By Ted Frank, 12-02-2007 Breastfeeding accommodation By Walter Olson, 11-29-2007 Thomas Geoghegan's "See You in Court" By Ted Frank, 11-28-2007 "F**th*rb*dd*ng" By Walter Olson, 11-27-2007 Energizing California's sue-your-boss law? By Walter Olson, 11-15-2007 "Family responsibility discrimination" By Walter Olson, 11-01-2007 Parade of new blogs By Walter Olson, 10-31-2007 Workplace defamation suits By Walter Olson, 10-30-2007 Damned if you do, damned if you don't: "Fetal Injury at Work" By Ted Frank, 10-29-2007 New York's Taylor Law By Walter Olson, 10-22-2007 Taxation of employment-law damages By Walter Olson, 10-16-2007 Around the web, October 10 By Walter Olson, 10-10-2007 The magic of employment class actions By Walter Olson, 10-06-2007 Business Week on wage/hour, overtime suits By Walter Olson, 10-01-2007 John Edwards' pension pretensions By Walter Olson, 09-25-2007 San Diego courts hit with overtime suit By Walter Olson, 09-22-2007 Equal Remedies Act of 2007 By Walter Olson, 09-21-2007 "Exhibit A in Painting Court as Too Far Right" By Walter Olson, 09-07-2007 Canadian employment law heats up By Walter Olson, 09-06-2007 House's anti-Ledbetter legislation By Walter Olson, 09-04-2007 Killer comments in employment litigation By Walter Olson, 08-30-2007 "Workplace bullying" legislation By Walter Olson, 08-24-2007 "My personnel records, please" By Walter Olson, 08-21-2007 "Family responsibilities discrimination" hits the Times By Walter Olson, 08-04-2007 Union Negotiates Contract, then Joins Suit attacking it By Michael Krauss, 07-27-2007 "Family responsibilities discrimination" By Walter Olson, 07-13-2007 The peer-review fishbowl By Walter Olson, 07-07-2007 George Will on card check By Walter Olson, 06-21-2007 Getting killed in a bar robbery By Walter Olson, 06-18-2007 High court upholds home care overtime exemption By Walter Olson, 06-14-2007 Great moments in labor arbitration By Walter Olson, 06-11-2007 "Obama flunks Econ 101" By Walter Olson, 06-07-2007 "New York to the DOJ: Hands Off Our Fire Department" By Walter Olson, 06-04-2007 Supreme Court enforces pay-bias deadline By Walter Olson, 05-31-2007 EEOC on "caregiver discrimination" By Walter Olson, 05-30-2007 Around the web, May 16 By Walter Olson, 05-16-2007 Got a "mean" boss? See 'em in court By Walter Olson, 05-15-2007 OSHA and its critics By Walter Olson, 05-04-2007 EEOC sues Salvation Army over "English-only" policy By Walter Olson, 05-03-2007 FedEx to pay $55 million to settle race-bias claims By Walter Olson, 04-25-2007 Do as we say, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-23-2007 Big win for Calif. wage-hour lawyers By Walter Olson, 04-20-2007 Business Week cover story: "Fear of Firing" By Walter Olson, 04-18-2007 EEOC launches hiring crackdown By Walter Olson, 04-16-2007 "Card check" in Canada By Walter Olson, 04-14-2007 Employment law: A "No Bad Apples Rule"? By Walter Olson, 04-11-2007 New York's scaffold law By Walter Olson, 04-10-2007 Texas Jones Act lawsuits By Walter Olson, 04-02-2007 Here comes "family responsibilities discrimination" By Walter Olson, 04-01-2007 "Asking an employee about retirement can get you sued" By Walter Olson, 03-27-2007 Answering company email during nonworking hours By Walter Olson, 03-23-2007 One-way fee-shifting By Walter Olson, 03-15-2007 The rewards of break time By Walter Olson, 03-12-2007 Alvin Lurie: More on cash balance plans By Walter Olson, 03-08-2007 Hedge funds hit by employment suits By Walter Olson, 02-27-2007 The card-check "travesty" By Walter Olson, 02-26-2007 "Voter intimidation" and card checks By Walter Olson, 02-16-2007 Quotations from Judith Vladeck By Walter Olson, 02-14-2007 More on Dukes v. Wal-Mart By Ted Frank, 02-08-2007 Sued if you do files: workplace religious accommodation By Walter Olson, 02-08-2007 Wal-Mart class affirmed by Ninth Circuit, 2-1 By Ted Frank, 02-07-2007 Card check for me, but not for thee By Walter Olson, 02-02-2007 Employment law: benightedness not unlawful By Walter Olson, 01-29-2007 "Telecommuters Are Reaching Out to Sue Their Employers" By Walter Olson, 01-28-2007 Around the web, January 25 By Ted Frank, 01-25-2007 Family & Medical Leave Act disputes on the rise By Walter Olson, 01-25-2007 Cash Balance Pension Plans Not Discriminatory: Supremes Deny Appeal By Michael Krauss, 01-17-2007 "S.F. businesses scramble over sick leave law" By Ted Frank, 01-17-2007 Cash balance pension plans By Walter Olson, 01-13-2007 Job applicants' credit records By Walter Olson, 01-09-2007 George Will on the minimum wage By Walter Olson, 01-06-2007 News bulletin: EEOC wins loses does some of each By Walter Olson, 01-05-2007 A Franchisor is Not an Employer By Michael Krauss, 01-02-2007 Immigration/employer whipsaws, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-29-2006 "Workplace bullying" not a cause of action By Walter Olson, 12-29-2006 "Graying of US academia stirs debate" By Walter Olson, 12-28-2006 Swift & Co. meat plant immigration raids By Ted Frank, 12-27-2006 Are criminals a protected class? By Ted Frank, 12-19-2006 PIRG fund-raising By Walter Olson, 12-18-2006 Strangling Pensions II By Ted Frank, 12-14-2006 Wal-Mart overseas-supplier-labor suit By Walter Olson, 12-13-2006 African-Americans at law firms By Ted Frank, 11-29-2006 Fulbright & Jaworski corporate litigation survey By Walter Olson, 11-27-2006 Setback for overtime suits By Walter Olson, 11-18-2006 Costco sex-bias class action By Walter Olson, 11-14-2006 "Pain-and-a-half" By Walter Olson, 10-25-2006 Update: Suing employers of illegal aliens By Walter Olson, 10-15-2006 UK adopts age-discrimination law By Walter Olson, 09-30-2006 NYC Commission on Human Rights By Walter Olson, 09-23-2006 Checking employment references By Walter Olson, 09-21-2006 White-collar overtime suits By Walter Olson, 09-15-2006 CIA Officer Liability Insurance By Martin F Grace, 09-11-2006 NYC jawbones ad shops into hire-by-numbers vow By Walter Olson, 09-09-2006 Blawg Review #73 at Workplace Prof Blog By Walter Olson, 09-05-2006 Wal-Mart as social program By Walter Olson, 08-29-2006 Suing employers of illegal aliens By Walter Olson, 08-23-2006 Mustn't discourage these things, you know By Walter Olson, 08-21-2006 Big win for at-will employment in California By Walter Olson, 08-18-2006 Los Angeles a Center for "Non-Employment" By Gail Heriot, 08-09-2006 "Caregiver discrimination" By Walter Olson, 07-31-2006 Employees charged with crimes By Walter Olson, 07-26-2006 HIPAA and employment litigation By Walter Olson, 07-21-2006 Europeans skeptical of Sarbanes-Oxley By Walter Olson, 07-18-2006 Workplace defamation verdicts By Walter Olson, 07-17-2006 Chicago Tribune on overtime suits By Walter Olson, 07-16-2006 Bounty-hunting employers of illegal aliens By Walter Olson, 07-10-2006 Million dollar employment verdicts By Walter Olson, 07-08-2006 Burlington Northern v. White By Walter Olson, 06-26-2006 Peace-Loving Mosque Fires Radical Imam, He Sues, Guess What Result? By Michael Krauss, 06-19-2006 RICO for illegal-alien-hiring? Not so fast By Walter Olson, 06-19-2006 Surge in overtime suits By Walter Olson, 06-07-2006 Paying indicted employees' legal fees By Walter Olson, 06-01-2006 Stockbroker overtime, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-10-2006 Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball By James R. Copland, 05-08-2006 RICO and illegal-alien-hiring, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-28-2006 Who Knows Whether Or When You May Say That? By Benjamin Zycher, 04-27-2006 How I beat the EEOC By Walter Olson, 04-14-2006 Online job applications, cont'd By Walter Olson, 04-13-2006 McKinney and employment class actions By James R. Copland, 04-06-2006 How well do you understand wage and hour law? By Walter Olson, 04-05-2006 And Now For Something Completely Different By Michael Krauss, 03-28-2006 Rolling back the FLSA By Walter Olson, 03-27-2006 "Indentured employertude" By Walter Olson, 03-24-2006 French student riots By Walter Olson, 03-20-2006 Arise, ye prisoners of high-paid brokerage jobs By Walter Olson, 03-09-2006 Raising the minimum wage By Walter Olson, 03-07-2006 Nonprofit organizations' legal risks By Walter Olson, 02-08-2006 General contractors in Connecticut By Walter Olson, 02-03-2006 Online job applications By Walter Olson, 01-30-2006 No "living wage" for hired picketers By Walter Olson, 01-28-2006 NY Times mag on "living wage" laws By Walter Olson, 01-18-2006 Do as I say: ACORN and the minimum wage By Walter Olson, 01-09-2006 Rough justice, indeed, for Wal-Mart By Walter Olson, 01-07-2006 Plaintiffs ask for $66 million, get three times that, from Wal-Mart By Michael Krauss, 12-23-2005 Keeping records of online job applications By Walter Olson, 12-20-2005 Ross Runkel: "Employment Law 101" By Walter Olson, 12-11-2005 Great moments in affirmative action By Walter Olson, 11-22-2005 Wal-Mart and health insurance By Ted Frank, 11-03-2005 Alito and the FMLA By Walter Olson, 11-02-2005 "Resplendent in their new rights"... but unemployable? By Walter Olson, 11-02-2005 Sociopathically litigious, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-27-2005 Administration reinstating Davis-Bacon in disaster zone By Walter Olson, 10-27-2005 Drawbacks of employment-law practice By Walter Olson, 10-24-2005 FedEx race-bias suit By Walter Olson, 10-15-2005 "Davis-Bacon Confidential" By Walter Olson, 10-12-2005 Update: Jasper popcorn suits settle By Ted Frank, 10-09-2005 Davis-Pork in the Gulf By Walter Olson, 09-21-2005 Davis-Bacon lifted in disaster zone By Walter Olson, 09-15-2005 Big-hearted UFCW vs. Wal-Mart By Walter Olson, 09-13-2005 Employment law overview By James R. Copland, 09-12-2005 Employers' responsibilities after natural disasters By Walter Olson, 09-06-2005 Does the Roman Catholic Church Get Good Legal Advice? By Martin F Grace, 08-31-2005 Comparable worth and the clerks' conveyor belt By Walter Olson, 08-20-2005 Horrors! Roberts criticized "comparable worth" By Walter Olson, 08-17-2005 John Roberts and employment law By Walter Olson, 08-01-2005 The war on Wal-Mart By Walter Olson, 07-27-2005 California labor law By Walter Olson, 07-27-2005 Local Government Liability Problems: Good or Bad? By Martin F Grace, 07-20-2005 Update: RICO suits against illegal-alien-hirers By Walter Olson, 07-17-2005 ADA for employee-only areas? By Walter Olson, 06-25-2005 More Employment at Will vs. Self-Defense By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-14-2005 Shooting holes in employment at will By Walter Olson, 06-14-2005 Privacy law trips up labor organizers By Walter Olson, 06-08-2005 Post those EEOC posters By Walter Olson, 06-07-2005 Commitment to "social justice" By Walter Olson, 06-01-2005 News flash: Wal-Mart not Beelzebub By Walter Olson, 05-31-2005 Suing managers personally By Walter Olson, 05-28-2005 Needed: criminal checks for trash haulers? By Walter Olson, 05-25-2005 Employment at will By Walter Olson, 05-20-2005 Title IX's invisible ink, cont'd By Walter Olson, 05-09-2005 That $40 million teaching job By James R. Copland, 05-06-2005 Video: Wal-Mart and public policy By Walter Olson, 04-29-2005 "Appearance-based discrimination" By Walter Olson, 04-22-2005 "Workplace bullying" By Walter Olson, 04-18-2005 "UBS Ordered to Pay $29 Million in Sex Bias Lawsuit" By Walter Olson, 04-11-2005 Working at home as "reasonable accommodation" By Walter Olson, 04-07-2005 Clouded crystal ball By Walter Olson, 03-31-2005 Overtime rules By Walter Olson, 03-29-2005 Caregiver discrimination suits By Walter Olson, 03-23-2005 Minimum wage hikes By Walter Olson, 03-18-2005 Wal-Mart class action By Walter Olson, 03-17-2005 Wage and hour suits By Walter Olson, 03-16-2005 Atlanta courthouse shootings By Ted Frank, 03-12-2005 Starbucks managers By Walter Olson, 01-22-2005 Employment: class-action-quake By Walter Olson, 01-13-2005 ERISA suits By Walter Olson, 01-05-2005 Litigating pensions into oblivion By Walter Olson, 12-15-2004 National Association of Manufacturers By Walter Olson, 11-10-2004 The glass ceiling in the mirror By Walter Olson, 10-27-2004 Overtime class actions: lawyers, too By Walter Olson, 10-27-2004 Another employee-misclassification settlement By Walter Olson, 10-22-2004 Stay open through a hurricane, go to jail By Walter Olson, 09-28-2004 Employment suits, for profit or not? By Walter Olson, 09-21-2004 Minimum wage hikes By Walter Olson, 09-17-2004 Examiner piece By James R. Copland, 09-15-2004 California overtime suits By Walter Olson, 09-10-2004 Employers: object to a button, go to jail By Walter Olson, 09-09-2004 Wal-Mart class certification By Walter Olson, 09-07-2004 Working overtime to mislead By Walter Olson, 08-30-2004 "Friends don't let friends censor Friends" By Walter Olson, 08-17-2004 WalMart discrimination suit, cont'd By James R. Copland, 08-16-2004 Sarbanes-Oxley: whistleblowers' delight? By Walter Olson, 08-16-2004 Griggs reconsidered By Walter Olson, 08-12-2004 Always low class certification standards. Always By Walter Olson, 07-22-2004 Reason to repeal RICO, #487 By Walter Olson, 07-12-2004 WalMart challenges gender discrimination class certification By James R. Copland, 07-08-2004 Further thoughts on the Walmart gender-discrimination class action By James R. Copland, 07-02-2004 Popcorn butter: suppliers win one By Walter Olson, 06-30-2004 Wal-Mart class action By Walter Olson, 06-29-2004 Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders By Walter Olson, 06-16-2004 Bad-teacher removal: consensus now complete? By Walter Olson, 05-17-2004 Killer nurse: hospitals didn't share records By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 At-will employment By Ted Frank, 05-15-2004 Employment law roundup By Walter Olson, 05-13-2004
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