From HR World comes a handy post, meant for employers but just as informative for job seekers, outlining the questions they can’t ask you. Read the whole enchilada here.
It never ceases to amaze me how many employers feel they have a right to know incredibly personal information such as that sought by the questions in […]

My good friend Leanna Hamill, an estate planning attorney from Massachusetts, has written an excellent post that, while having little to do with employment law, is something I think everyone should read.
Leanna points out that as more and more of us live in a paper-less (if not quite paperless) world, this creates potential hardships […]

The title’s a bit of a nerdy inside lawyer joke - ERISA, the federal law that governs employee benefit plans, is infamous for its wide and broad preemption provision, which basically means that no state court actions get the chance to look at cases with ERISA implications, and even when the federal district courts are […]

SCOTUSBlog tells us that the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in a case called Meacham v. Knolls was the subject of what’s called a “petition for certiorari” - or “cert petition” for short - earlier this month. This the necessary procedural step that puts in motion the consideration of the case for a formal […]

Thanks to Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer for this post, discussing the pending Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2007 (HR 2015 - note the link in Employer’s Lawyer post is broken - use this PDF link to the GPO site). I’ll take a deeper look at this act over the weekend and blog about it more […]

As a show of solidarity to another blogger, Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users, I am taking this blog dark (i.e., no posting) for the remainder of this week. Kathy has been the victim of a foul, evil campaign including death threats and threats of sexual violence, for no reason apparently other than that she […]

The blogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds, it seems, and many of the new blog-babies are legally-oriented. One of the latest and most interesting is the California Employee Rights Blog, hosted by James Peters of the Peters Law Group in Ventura, California. James posts in Q&A format, and covers such topics as workplace harassment, […]

At long last, a rise in wages! Read about it here at the New York Times (free registration required).

A wonderful post by Dalia Lithwick at Slate had me laughing out loud this afternoon. I especially liked the disclaimer language she suggested for invitations to all office holiday parties:
 
WARNING: You are herein invited to attend a Holiday Party. Should you choose to attend this event, you are herein advised that you do so at […]

We’ll definitely get back to our ongoing series on South Carolina’s employment handbook cases but first, a note from the blogosphere about a fascinating pending suit in which an employer’s interest in a healthy workforce smacks headlong into an employee’s right to control his own body.
 First the story, from the Boston Herald: Seems Scott Rodrigues […]