Labor and Employment

Practice Management

General Employment Law for Religious Organizations

Ann T. Stillman

Religious organizations, like other employers, are regularly being thrust into costly and time-consuming employment disputes. The importance of religious organizations understanding and appropriately applying employment law principles cannot be overemphasized.

Labor and Employment Law Pro Bono Web Resources

Web resources for pro bono labor and employment lawyers

Twelve Tips for Licensors to Reduce Joint Employer Risks under Today’s Legal Standards – Revisited

Rochelle Spandorf

In 2014, three events combined to produce near-panic among franchisors and franchisees alike by signaling that courts and regulators were going to consider franchisors to be the joint employers of their franchisees’ workers. Subsequent events in 2015 have made these changes a reality.

Workplace paradigm shift thanks to “National Awakening” around sexual harassment

Jenny Yang, former chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, says the national awakening around harassment – particularly sexual harassment – goes deeper than anomalous acts by rogue individuals.