A former employee sued her former employer for trying to enforce a restrictive covenant preventing her from practicing her profession...

An injured employee was awarded double compensation since the employer intentionally failed to take adequate precautions in the face of a...

A jury awarded damages to a group of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Massachusetts Wage Act even though there...

Congress passed, and the President has signed into law a transformative bill that allows employees to avoid enforcement of pre-dispute...

An employer waited three weeks before paying a terminated employee for accrued vacation time. The lower court found that since the...

An employee claimed her employer’s policy of not compensating merchandisers for an off-the-clock time deprived them of wages earned. The...

An at-will employee fired when he filed a rebuttal letter for inclusion in his personnel file after being placed on a performance...

NY has an expanded whistleblower protection law that significantly boosts protections for private-sector employees claiming retaliation...

In the current environment and with the US Supreme Court knocking out the OSHA rule, employers are looking for creative ways to...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that a company that entered into a subcontract for regional direct sales services for its...

Employers continue to grapple with state and federal legislation on COVID-19 vaccinations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First...

NOTE: The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted an emergency motion to stay enforcement of this Standard, finding...

After getting a judgment against its former employee, the employer seized his minivan. Rather than sell it to satisfy the judgment, the...

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) filed its first major no-poach case in 2010, against a group of Silicon Valley...

A Company sued a former employee for violation of a non-compete the employee signed. Because the agreement did not expressly state that...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) recently made clear that Chapter 93A applies to employees who misappropriate their...

The NLRB decided an employer violated the NLRA by firing an employee for a letter she wrote to the editor of a local newspaper. A second...

Back in 1986 Congress passed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). CFAA imposes criminal or civil liability on any person who...

An exotic dancer was an employee of an adult entertainment club under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"), even though a written...

The plaintiff applied through the website of the defendant which assigns house cleaning jobs to workers. Later, she clicked an accept...