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Corporate Counsel

Checking In: 3 Big Legal Issues in Hospitality

Whether they're running a restaurant, hotel, casino or another related establishment, employers in hospitality have a lot of legal matters on their trays, and the stakes can be high.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Can Employees Secretly Record Workplace Conversations?

It's likely that almost every employee in your company has a smartphone that can be used as a clandestine recording device.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Banning Phone Use While Driving: Safety and Liability

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, traffic crashes account for the most workplace fatalities, and mobile phones are involved in an estimated 26 percent of them.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Workplace Bullying Laws and Litigation

While no state, or the federal government, has adopted laws explicitly outlawing bullying in the private sector, employers are well advised to proactively take steps to prevent workplace bullying.
10 minute read

Law.com

McDonald's Employees Not Lovin' Workplace Safety Conditions

After facing wage-and-hour suits and protests to raise the minimum wage, McDonald's Inc. now is dealing with complaints filed with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Workers Comp Sole Redress for Infection, Panel Finds

A research scientist who was working on a federal grant when he was exposed in a New York University laboratory to the virus that causes Kaposi's Sarcoma must seek redress from the college through the state's workers compensation system instead of a private suit, an appeals court decided.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Charges of Gender Bias in Workers' Compensation

In California, women say their workers' compensation claims have been reduced for reasons related to gender.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ruling Supports Broad Reading of Ground Zero-Related Diseases

A retired New York City police officer who worked at Ground Zero after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and was later diagnosed with fibromyalgia is entitled to receive enhanced retirement benefits, the First Department ruled Tuesday.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Labor Law §200: Commonly Invoked But Frequently Misunderstood

In his Construction Accident Litigation column, Brian J. Shoot writes: Many of the injured workers who seek recovery under Sections 240 or 241[6] of the Labor Law also plead violations of Section 200 of that law. Much has been written about the so-called "scaffold statute" and §241[6], which imposes vicarious liability for certain Industrial code violations. Yet there has been comparatively little analysis concerning the even more frequently invoked provisions of Labor Law §200.
14 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Kidnapping Risk: Get the GC Involved

Abductions are a real concern for international business travelers, and one that lawyers can help assess and prevent.
2 minute read

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