Employee disputes are listed as a real concern for organizations across a broad spectrum of industries, according to this year’s Norton Rose Fulbright’s Annual Litigation Trends Survey. Nearly 50% of the survey respondents cited labor and employment issues as topping the number of cases their organizations faced in 2013. This not at all surprising considering [...]
In our blog two months ago, we covered some of the issues that are poised to potentially affect the employment practices environment, including the unconstitutionality of DOMA, an uptick in religious discrimination and age discrimination, the use of criminal background checks for employment purposes, etc. Now we have ENDA, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, once again [...]
Whether it’s a large corporation, a government agency, or small business, news of cyber security risks today is an everyday occurrence. Recently, the New York Times website was maliciously attacked by a group known as the “Syrian Electronic Army”, and although this isn’t what most companies have to worry about, it is a new twist [...]
The number of charges filed by employees with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is near an all-time high, with lawsuits brought by employees representing one of the most common types of litigation faced by employers of all sizes. The number of charges filed with EEOC grew sharply from about 75,000 in 2005 to almost [...]
