The most important tool a hiring manager can use to identify and deliver the best employees is a background check. Such a check may include information from multiple sources, including credit reports, employment verifications and criminal record searches. Most employers use a vendor to access this information, but there are some who engage in these searches and verifications themselves.
Did you know that your employment practices could violate antitrust law? This is the message to be gleaned from joint guidance recently issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
The Supreme Court's decision in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. is likely to have a significant impact on federal workplace discrimination laws, despite the fact that the case does not implicate the employment relationship, or involve employment law.
Is the Department of Labor's overtime rule now dead? Will the overtime rule be modified to a more modest version? Much uncertainty remains regarding the recently announced overtime rule in both the legal and the political sphere.
In Villarreal v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, on rehearing en banc, reversed its prior holding that job applicants may bring "disparate impact" claims for age discrimination against potential employers, and that the EEOC may toll the statute of limitations in such cases.
Is the Department of Labor overtime rule now dead? Will the overtime rule be modified to a more modest version? Much uncertainty remains regarding the recently announced overtime rule in both the legal and the political sphere.
Three Goals
A recent report laid bare one of the most pressing problems of today's companies — and their GCs. Simply put, the report found that businesses of all types do a poor job of contract management.
In Villarreal v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the Eleventh Circuit concluded that Section 4(a)(2) of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) does not allow job applicants to assert claims of disparate impact against a potential employer.
No one can deny that cyberattacks are the new norm. Such risks will increasingly challenge our ability to operate our businesses. In the world of cybercrime, everyone — from individuals to nation-states — is a target. However, some targets are more alluring than others.
Non-compete clauses in employment contracts typically seek to preclude employees from working for a competitor for a specific period of time and within a specific geographic area. Most states allow non-competition agreements, provided they are reasonable in scope and justified by the employer's legitimate business interests. California, however, generally prohibits covenants not to compete, subject to limited exceptions.
