Management’s Workplace Blog – Information and Insights for Employers
On May 19, 2014, Maryland’s highest court (the Court of Appeals) issued a significant decision setting forth the rights of prevailing plaintiffs’ attorneys to recover their fees in successful wage claim litigation against employers.
In Friolo v. Frankel, the Court of Appeals heard this case for the third time, following two previous visits to…
Do you think it could possibly violate any law to require at-will non-union employees to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting disclosure outside the company of information relating to customers, marketing procedures, costs, prices, business plans, computer and software systems, and “personnel information and documents?” If you answered “of course not!” you would be WRONG under…
Two recent harassment cases are attention-getters because they illustrate the potentially high stakes damages to which employers are exposed.
The EEOC recently announced a final judgment of over $1 million against Whirlpool Corporation, which dropped its appeal to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Ohio in a sexual and race…
The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C., in Stephens Media, LLC v. NLRB, just upheld a finding by the NLRB that an employer in Hawaii unlawfully punished protected concerted activity when it interrogated four employees and discharged one of them for surreptitiously recording a meeting with a management representative. The employer had no policy…
Employers and individuals often seek to call their relationship contractor/independent contractor — not employer/employee. Courts are increasingly resistant to such artificial designations. The Federal Court in Maryland, in a lawsuit claiming overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, ruled on January 18, 2012 that independent contractor status did not apply to an installer of…
