Employment Law Report

I’m in my office, talking with Tommy about the terrible MLS schedule. He thinks FCC should not be playing in the knockout stage of CONCACAF to begin the season; “put that game mid-season, we score 3 or 4 goals in the first leg.” Then, I get a call from a client who just fired an employee. Let’s call him Johnny. Johnny was fired for being a bad ...

This month, the Ohio Supreme Court altered the landscape of more than 25 years of workers’ compensation legal precedent in an employer-friendly decision concerning termination of Temporary Total Disability compensation. In its ruling in State ex rel. Dillon v. Indus. Comm.,  Slip Opinion No. 2024-Ohio-744, the Ohio Supreme Court: (1 ...

Last fall we discussed the monumental shift in the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) procedures to allow unions to skip the lengthy election process if an employer fails to act upon demand for recognition. And predictably, with the ease of recognition and organization, unions are taking full advantage of the NLRB regressing decades in ...

Written by: Sharon Gold

Late Friday, U.S. District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker of the Eastern District of Texas vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) controversial 2023 Joint Employer Final Rule.  The 2023 Final Rule revised the standard under the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) to determine whether two ...

Remote work continues to be a hot topic as employers are wrestling with the decision to bring employees back to the office or when an employee requests remote work as an ADA accommodation.  As more employees are looking for exclusively remote positions, it is time to make sure you know where your employees are actually working.

What do you do if an ...