The Supremes Give Employers a Hollow Victory
The U.S. Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision in Mach Mining v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on April 29, 2015. Employers had been anticipating the Court’s guidance as to...
View ArticleNon-Disclosure Agreements: Less Really Can be More
No matter how great a company is, employee turnover is inevitable. Employees switch jobs for any number of reasons, and undeniably they leave their positions with far more knowledge about their...
View ArticleEmployer or Big Brother: Policing Off-Duty Conduct
In my former life as a teacher, I was given a new school pride t-shirt at the start of every school year. We could always count on the principal to gently remind us that everything we did while wearing...
View ArticleWhen Your Diversity Training Sounds like a Saturday Night Live Skit
You know your workplace respect or diversity training has gone seriously, horrifically awry when you read about it in the national news and friends on Facebook are referring to articles about it with...
View ArticleAbsolute Immunity from Defamation When Cooperating with Government...
SHELL OIL CO., ET AL. V. ROBERT WRITT, No. 13-0552, 2015 Tex. Lexis 452 (Tex. May 15, 2015) Most corporate counsel understand that when a governmental entity begins investigating your company’s...
View ArticleGet the Message: $40 Million Is a Lot of Money!
On May 20, 2015, a federal jury in Houston found a former research scientist and an entrepreneur liable for misappropriation of trade secrets and conspiracy to misappropriate trade secrets. The jury...
View ArticleGary Lawson Discusses Impact of Marriage Equality Laws on Employers
The Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, establishing same-sex marriage recognition, isn’t just a cultural shift. It’s also likely to have an impact on employers and employee benefits. All 50...
View ArticleWrite your ERISA Summary Plan Description to Inform – and to Win
In June, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Pearce v. Chrysler Group, L.L.C. Pension Plan, No.13-2374, again told an employer that it may have failed to adequately...
View ArticleStrasburger Partner Earsa Jackson Discusses How New NLRB Ruling Affects...
As seen in The Business Journals (September 2015) If you hire contract or temporary employees to cover your labor needs, you should know about a new ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
View ArticleNew Poster Required for Federal Contractors
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released its supplemental poster which must be used by employers who qualify as federal government contractors and subcontractors. Federal...
View ArticleIrrational Women Demand Equal Pay
I am a labor and employment lawyer. I also am a soccer mom. Yesterday those worlds collided when the five captains (Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo) of the US...
View ArticleProposed Overtime Changes Could Affect Millions of Business Owners
The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a new rule that would extend overtime pay to nearly 5 million additional white-collar salaried workers across the country. The rule would change the salary...
View Article“Don’t Worry Be Happy” is Against the Law
Bobby McFerrin better steer clear of T-Mobile. Despite its earworm catchiness, T-Mobile’s adoption of the credo from his hit song, “Don’t Worry Be Happy” recently landed the company in hot water....
View ArticleThis Just In: Some Workers May No Longer Be Exempt
After almost a year of discussion, and more than 270,000 comments, the Department of Labor just issued new salary thresholds for exempt and highly compensated employees. The current salary threshold...
View ArticlePass the Jelly. The new FLSA Rules may be Toast!
For more than a year, we have been warning employers that FLSA changes to the overtime exemption rules were coming. In May, we received news of the final implementation date of December 1, 2016. The...
View ArticleNow Available! New Form I-9
On November 14, 2016, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a revised version of the Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9. The current form remains valid until January 21,...
View ArticleTexas Judge Enjoins New FLSA Rules
To enjoin or not to enjoin – that certainly was the pivotal question answered today with respect to the legal fight over the FLSA Final Overtime Rule issued in May 2016. As we recently reported, in...
View ArticleLatest Executive Order Poised to Reform H-1B Visa Program
On April 18, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Buy American and Hire American” whereby the executive branch confirmed its intent to “rigorously enforce and administer the laws...
View ArticleSchools: Rethinking Restroom, Shower Room & Locker Room Design
As seen in School Planning & Management. When it comes to restroom, shower room, and locker room design, school administrators have traditionally wanted the usual: durability and ease of...
View ArticleEmployers Face New Normal
Strasburger & Price presents Snap(chat), Crackle & Pop: Social Media in the Workplace, a series of live events covering critical social media issues, such as privacy, productivity and security,...
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