Law Roundtable

When you see this kind of headline, I Spy With My Little Eye... Hotel Baker Gets $3 Million from Starwood you know that it is no doubt a complicated story. That it came at the end of a more than three week jury trial in federal court in NYC, ...

Although my usual standard for jury verdict reports is a million dollars (MDV's), this headline caught my attention, Court awards bullied student $800,000.

It has long been my view that the most likely path for a bullying cause of action recognized in the workplace (other than the continuous ...

An article in the St. Louis Business Journal reports on an effort by the Missouri business community to roll back recent state Supreme Court decisions which have caused a split between how state and federal discrimination laws are interpreted.

A Missouri management side lawyer, Bob Stewart, has one ...

Ramona Johnson, a Secret Service agent married to a Secret Service Agent, says she was denied a transfer to Miami, where her husband had been moved because he had filed a discrimination charge based on his race.

Johnson alleged the denial of the transfer was retaliation either because of ...

Steve Greenhouse, who has the labor beat (assuming that is still a proper term) for the NYT has an article today about the Obama's administration plans to utilize government contracting to increase wages and benefits for employees, Obama Aims to Use Federal Contracts as a Way to Lift Wages. ...

The M.P. Catherwood Library of the Cornell School of Industrial & Labor Relations has a service, Workplace Issues Today, that I receive daily. It's a good way to keep up with developments.

I was struck by the three entry's in today's email:
FRENCH OIL WORKERS PROTEST SHUTDOWN, a ...

Kris Dunn, otherwise know as the hr capitalist, has a great blog of the same name.

You need to read this post, with its examples in its entirety: Employees Leaving Their Laptops Unsecure? Try These Public Humiliation Templates From Their PC...

Check it (and Kris's excellent blog) ...

Or at least that would seem to be the most likely course of action based on a statement released by President Obama after the Senate confirmed 27 appointments by voice vote before leaving for the week long's President's Day Holiday. Senate Confirms 27 Obama Nominees . From the White ...

The next time you open a letter from your friendly Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs investigator advising you that you will be subject to a friendly review of your compliance practices, you might just contemplate the following:

November 24, 1993

October 19, 1994

August 25, 2000

Before taking too much joy in the initial defeat of Craig Becker's nomination to the NLRB, the business community, particularly government contractors, should be aware of a different approach that is beginning to be considered. That approach would use the power of the purse, government contracting, to achieve labor friendly ...