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What’s Ahead in 2016 For Employment Law? Probably Not As Much As You Think
Ah, predictions. Way back at the start of 2015, I made a series of predictions regarding employment law in the then-upcoming year. Not a lot of them occurred in exactly the same way I predicted. Sure,...
View ArticleWinter Update: What You Might Have Missed in Employment Law
My colleagues at Shipman & Goodwin have, for a lot longer than I have been doing this blog, have been producing the Employment Law Letter recapping some stories you might have missed over each...
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Scalia’s Employment Law Legacy: More Complicated Than You Think
About a decade ago, I had the good fortune to sit at a table with Justice Antonin Scalia over a long lunch. He was a distinguished speaker for the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Connecticut Bar...
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What’s Cooking at the General Assembly in 2016 (Part I)
The 2016 Connecticut General Assembly is about one month from ending its term so it’s a good opportunity to see what bills are still floating out there. I’ll do a bigger recap when we get close to the...
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Thoughts on Connecticut’s Congressional Delegation, Despite Inaction by Congress
Last week, as part of my work with the American Bar Association, I had the opportunity to meet with all of Connecticut’s Representatives and Senators in Washington, D.C. Most were available in person,...
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Three Things to Look For In Final Overtime Regulations
USDOL Headquarters in DC Late Monday, several reports on Twitter indicated that the Department of Labor would be announcing and releasing the final version of the revisions to the white-collar overtime...
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Election 2016: Three Employment Law Debate Questions For Donald Trump
Each election cycle, I hope that employment law issues will move front and center to the Presidential campaign. And each cycle, I’m slightly disappointed that such issues only get short shrift. Sigh....
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Election 2016: Three Employment Law Debate Questions for Hillary Clinton
Yesterday, I offered up three questions for moderators to use during the Presidential Debates to question Donald Trump on employment law issues. Today is Secretary Hillary Clinton’s turn. Secretary...
View ArticleWhat Not to Do: Tips from the Ultimate Office Holiday Party Movie Trailer
I don’t know about you but the news lately has been awfully serious lately. Thus, on this Friday before Election Day, let me share something a bit lighter. So last night, I started watching a few...
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What a Trump Victory May Mean for Employers and Employment Law
There haven’t been a lot of stories about what Donald Trump would do as President when it comes to employment law issues. In part, that was due to the polls. But it was also due in part to the lack of...
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Looking Back and Ahead to Employment Law in 2017
For many years, I’ve used my first post each year to look back and ahead at the area of employment law. My record of predictions has been about what you would expect someone predicting the future —...
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Could “The Last Jedi” Actually Be Practicing Religion in Your Workplace?
Yesterday, news came out that Episode 8 (I mean, VIII) of the Star Wars series would be named “The Last Jedi”. Which reminded me about an article in The New York Times I saw a few weeks ago that I had...
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Compliance with Today’s Anti-Discrimination Laws Through a History Lesson
Credit: Wikipedia Commons Over the weekend, I was doing a lot of driving. Having a kid at camp near the New Hampshire border to pick him up will do that. So, it was time for me to catch up on some...
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Reflections on the Origin of a Ten-Year-Old Blog
Update: As noted below, the redesigned blog should be up at some point Tuesday, perhaps late – a new post will follow thereafter. If it’s Tuesday and you’re seeing this blog post and the old design...
View ArticleWebinar and Podcast Are All Things Employment Law
Are you looking for something new to end the year with? Then I have two quick links to share with you this morning. First, on December 7 from noon to 1 pm (ET, of course), I, along with Eric Meyer (The...
View ArticleThe Five Questions You Must Ask Before Any Employment Decision
Employment law lawyers are asked to review a lot of employment decisions. If we’re lucky, we’re brought in early in the process when the decision isn’t yet final and where our input can be useful....
View ArticleA Look Back at the Big Employment Law Predictions for 2017
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. So said the economist Milton Friedman. At least the Internet says he said it. Must be true, right?...
View ArticleWhat are Blockchain’s Implications for Employment Law?
Are you ready for blockchain’s impact in employment law? This seems to be the new equivalent to the buzz a decade ago that social media was going to change the world (it kinda did). Perhaps bigger. At...
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CHRO Issues Rare Guidance on Hiring and Employing Veterans
With Memorial Day coming up this weekend, it’s often a time (or it ought to be a time) to reflect on the sacrifices made by our military. And at the same time, consider how we, as a society, treat our...
View ArticleHow to Hire an Employment Law Attorney for Your Business
You might think the title of this post is a bit self-serving or even self-promotional. Is this post just going to be a backhanded way to hire me, an employment law attorney? I want to dissuade you of...
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