June 2020

You’ve probably heard of at-will employment before. Maybe you saw it as a clause in your employment agreement, or maybe it came up at ...

Overtime pay has been enshrined in federal law for the better part of a century, thanks to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ...

Employers have an implicit incentive to cut costs everywhere they see them. This widens profit margins for themselves and their investors and contributes to ...

The short answer is: No. Businesses can’t require their employees to take COVID antibody tests. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued new guidance on ...

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender employees. In other words, ...

Everyone who has ever opened up their own business knows that you can’t run a business without taking risks. To eliminate or mitigate this ...

Assuming you did it on your own time, the answer is no. Employees cannot be fired because they joined the Black Lives Matter protests, ...

On May 22, 2020, Haeggquist & Eck, LLP (“HAE”) filed a proposed class-action case against Wells Fargo & Company and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. ...

They say hindsight is 2020, and when we look back at 2020, many working parents will be grateful for the time we got to ...

Government contracting is a huge business that spans numerous industries and trades. Contracts between private contractors and State and Federal government agencies account for ...