Current Employment
Bringing (somewhat) daily news, a little commentary, and hopefully a robust discussion of labor and employment law and policy. Topics include unions, wage and hour, benefits, discrimination and other workplace issues in the law.
Author: Tim Eavenson is an attorney practicing labor and employment litigation in Chicago; Chad DeGroot is an attorney practicing employee benefits and executive compensation law in St. Louis; Aaron Janik is an attorney practicing labor law in the area of educators in Chicago.
Blawg Related Categories: Benefits/ERISA • Education Law • Labor & Employment
Recent Posts from Current Employment
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Will Work for… Free?
As the recession sits on the international job reports like a boulder, a lot of us are waiting to find out what the great HR idea is going to finally pull us out of the…
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Southern Cops in MS Aren’t Feeling the Hospitality
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has concluded an investigation of racial discrimination claims made by black Mississippi state troopers. The investigation spanned several months and resulted in the agency finding in favor of the…
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Union-Tribune Follow-up: A Response
In response to the story I posted about the LA Police Protective League asking its private equity fund, Platinum Equity, to oust the editorial staff of the newspaper it acquired, I got the following email…
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Union’s Call for Editorial Staff Ouster Raises Ownership Questions
Last week, I posted a summary of a LERA presentation on the benefits of private equity firms using labor pension funds to invest in struggling businesses. One of the upshots discussed was that the pension…
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Fashionable Unions – H&M Workers in NYC Ratify First Contract
When you think of unions and New York City, what comes to mind? Probably not what they're selling at international reasonably-priced fashionista retailer H&M. But in a sign of the times, over 1,000 NYC employees…
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Strange Bedfellows: Labor & Capital
As companies continue to suffer losses, unionized workforces are increasingly worried about their employers' health and the future of their jobs. Some unions in troubled companies are finding an unlikely source of salvation and partnership:…
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EEOC Issues Opinion Letter Holding Health Risk Assessment Violates ADA
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently opined that “an employer violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when it required employees to undertake a health risk assessment (“HRA”) as a condition of participating in the employer’s…
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EEOC Sues Strip Club for Firing 56-Year-Old Waitress. Awesome.
In case you needed proof that discrimination laws apply to everyone - and every business - the EEOC has taken up the case of a 56-year old strip club waitress who it says was fired…
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Job Offers “The Legal Way”? God Help Us.
An article on doing job offers "the legal way" got Tim Eavenson thinking about what that means, and what role employment lawyers do and should play in their clients' HR strategy.
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So, EFCA… What is That, Exactly?
You can't get away from it. The thing is everywhere. Everyone is talking about the Employee Free Choice Act, and while you smile and nod and raise your eyebrows a little, you have no idea…