Corporate Counsel | Commentary
By Gretchen Carlson & Julie Roginsky | February 28, 2023
Lift Our Voices (LOV) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to eradicating the silencing mechanisms that silence survivors of workplace harassment and assault. In the last year, we helped shepherd two bipartisan federal laws through Congress that have been hailed as the most significant labor law changes this century.
By Marianna Wharry | February 8, 2023
"Unionization is hitting where millennials are working, as a generalization," said Matt Austin, an employer-side attorney at Austin Legal in Columbus, Ohio.
By Colleen Murphy | February 8, 2023
"I think that tech companies have been booming for a number of years, and it's only natural that legal issues are going to come to the fore," said Shannon Liss-Riordan, a partner at Lichten & Liss-Riordan.
By Chris O'Malley | February 2, 2023
"Although getting a warning for a violation may not sound like much, most employers do not want to attract negative press for discriminating against an employee," Bradley Arant Boult Cummings said in a client briefing.
By Maria Dinzeo | December 5, 2022
"You need to make sure you're treating people with dignity and with respect. They're not just cogs in a wheel," said Robert Foehl, a professor of law and business ethics at Ohio University.
By Hugo Guzman | November 2, 2022
"That makes it difficult for employers to deal with because you don't always know whether what you're doing is lawful or not," Blank Rome partner Howard Knee said.
By Jessica Mach | August 4, 2022
Employers unwilling to find creative accommodations for workers with long Covid and workers with other long-term disabilities risk "losing enormous resources and a brain drain of employees who have a lot to contribute," said Wendy Musell, who represents workers as a sole practitioner and is also of counsel at Oakland, California-based firm Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams.
By Jessica Mach | July 28, 2022
The example of California, where noncompetes are still widely used by employers despite the state's longstanding ban on the agreements, raises questions about whether the FTC will "have the ability or the capacity to put enough enforcement in all the different states" or whether "they [are] just going to try to kick off the worst offenders," said Majed Dakak, a partner at Kesselman Brantly Stockinger.
By Jessica Mach | July 21, 2022
Georgia and Alabama are among states passing laws that count Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors. But a soon-to-be-released Department of Labor rule could supersede those measures.
By Jessica Mach | July 10, 2022
Reed Smith partner Emily Harbison said employers' publicly criticizing or celebrating the ruling "could lead some people to say, 'I'm being harassed or in a hostile work environment based on my religious beliefs.'"
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