25 million employees have signed employment contracts containing arbitration clauses and waivers that bar the employee from filing a class action lawsuit. Many employers favor arbitration provisions because they believe arbitrations to be quicker, cheaper, and more efficient than traditional litigation. There is anecdotal evidence on ...
In October of last year, Tom Homan, the Acting Director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), promised employers that they would see a significant increase in worksite enforcement actions in the next fiscal year. So far, Mr. Homan has delivered on that promise. On Monday, ICE announced that in the first seven months of this ...
Handbooks. The mere mention of the company handbook typically sends HR professionals into a furious search for any project other than the company handbook. Sorry, I can’t work on the company handbook, I have to watch the paint dry in my office.
For this reason, beyond passing them off during perfunctory onboarding, handbooks typically get ...
The Department of Justice has taken particular interest in examining employment agreements or practices that include no-poaching agreements – that is, agreements between companies not to recruit or hire each other’s employees. The DOJ has long taken the position that such agreements or practices violate federal antitrust laws. And at the ...