As we discussed on March 18, a bill was proposed in the Minnesota House of Representatives that would void most noncompete agreements in Minnesota, including those in employment contracts. However, currently, they remain enforceable. So, what could happen to your company if you decided to hire an
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Last month, administrators at Harvard University issued an apology to a number of staff members whose official school e-mail accounts were searched in the wake of a student cheating scandal, which broke last year. The investigation was searching for the dean responsible for leaking a confidential document
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A bill was proposed in the Minnesota House of Representatives this month which would void most noncompete agreements in Minnesota, including those in employment contracts. While the bill does include exceptions for certain circumstances, it does not include any exception to restrict the employment opportunities of former
Read more →Employment discrimination on the basis of race has been in the news this week, as Battle v. Hurley Medical Center, out of Michigan, caught the attention of some major news organizations. The complaint alleges that Tonya Battle was a nurse in the NICU at Hurley Medical Center,
Read more →New York City is the latest in a string of places proposing legislation to protect the unemployed from employment discrimination, during a time when many are still struggling to find work in a sluggish economy. If enacted, the new law would prohibit employers from considering an applicant’s
Read more →This week, 20 years after the Family and Medical Leave Act was initially enacted, its protections were expanded for military families and airline flight crews. The final rule, handed down on Wednesday, extends the availability of FMLA leave to family members of the men and women serving
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An article in the New York Times this week may have employers reevaluating their social media policies. The National Labor Relations Board has handed down a number of rulings, the latest just last month, that have companies rewriting their social media rules. The rulings make many broad
Read more →Only 4 states in the nation have a minimum wage requirement lower than the federal minimum wage – one of them being Minnesota. But that might not be true for long. Two bills have been proposed this month to raise the minimum wage in Minnesota to exceed
Read more →On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that employers are not required to offer reasonable accommodations for pregnancy. Or at least, it appears that way if you don’t read the fine print. Peggy Young was working as a driver for UPS when
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