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The Affordable Care Act and Lactation Breaks
As the nation awaits the Supreme Court’s opinion on the constitutionality of its individual health insurance mandate, some lesser-known provisions of the “Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act”...
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EEOC: Gender Identity Discrimination Covered by Title VII
In a decision issued April 23, 2012, the EEOC held that gender-identity discrimination-or discrimination against transgender individuals because they are transgender-constitutes sex discrimination...
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Recent NLRB Decisions Challenge At-Will Disclaimers and May Impact HR...
Earlier this year, in D.R. Horton, Inc., 357 NLRB No. 184 (Jan. 6, 2012), the National Labor Relations Board (“Board” or “NLRB”) held that mandatory arbitration agreements requiring all employment...
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California Court Finds Arbitration Agreement In Employee Handbook Unenforceable
In a July 30, 2012 decision the Second Appellate District of the Court of Appeal ruled that an employee was not bound by the arbitration clause in his employee handbook for a slew of reasons: the...
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Company E-mail Use Policies: The Next Battleground for the NLRB?
As reported in prior blogs, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has become increasingly active in attacking employer policies on the grounds that those policies chill employees’ rights to engage...
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