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Across the world today, Google employees participated in a walkout to protest the management’s handling of sexual harassment and gender inequity at the company. What was expected to be a small walkout of a few hundred turned out to… Source:... Read More →

Flying below the radar could be a risky thing. Literally, it means that your aircraft could be be flying low enough to hit buildings. The trade-off is to fly lower than radar can detect and avoid anti-aircraft fire. Figuratively,… Source:... Read More →

Making flextime work is really a matter of perspective. On one side, the employee wants flexibility to do things outside work. On the other side, the employer is all about getting the work done. So now, you want us… Source:... Read More →

Nobody would complain if they had to pass a test for a job, as long as the test was fair, right?But what about a test that an employee never gets to take? A test that determines their working fate,… Source:... Read More →

When it comes to general counsel in these modern times, where, for example, paw-ternity leave is actual a thing, the expectations are changing. For one, the legal industry has changed quite a bit over the last decade (or two) as the… Source:... Read More →

For some individuals, arbitration might actually be a better option than litigation. And as such, those arbitration clauses that are generally designed to make pursuing legal action more burdensome could actually backfire for employers. In the employment context, in… Source:... Read More →

No matter what you think of Donald Trump as a president, he is good at surviving bankruptcy. His companies filed for bankruptcy six times, yet he emerged a billionaire. Whatever his legacy may be, there is a lesson to… Source:... Read More →

If you are outside counsel, don’t be surprised to learn that general counsel talk behind your back. It’s practically a requirement because GCs have a duty to inform their clients about the good and the bad of outside representation…. Source:... Read More →

Big tuna is a big deal. It’s an $11 billion global market. And in the U.S., 80 percent of the tuna market share is dominated by three companies: StarKist, Bumble Bee, and Chicken of the Sea. Although the companies… Source:... Read More →

Illinois, the first state to enact a privacy law for biometric data, will soon have another first in the field. The Illinois Supreme Court will decide whether plaintiffs have to show harm to sue under the privacy law. In… Source:... Read More →