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As published in the Connecticut Law Tribune on September 13, 2010 Overall, it has been a quiet year with regard to major judicial changes to Connecticut’s employment laws. Throughout the Connecticut Supreme Court’s term, which …

As published in the Connecticut Law Tribune on July 26, 2010 The American workplace is undergoing dramatic change.  Some companies have reduced their workforce in difficult economic times and asked employees to take on more …

The National Football League regular season kicked off on September 9th, with 27.5 million viewers tuning in to watch the Minnesota Vikings take on Super Bowl Champions the New Orleans Saints.  While the NFL coaches …

A new amendment passed in Massachusetts (Massachusetts Personnel Records Statute, M.G.L. c. 149 §52C) requires employers to notify all employees within 10 days of anything put into the employee’s personnel file that could have a …

In one of the first decisions to interpret the new Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois found that employees with cancer in remission are …

Peter Schaumber, nominated to the National Labor Relations Board in 2002 by Former President Bush, recently left the Board after eight years of service.  For twenty-seven months of his term, Schaumber sat with only one …

While we expect the current National Labor Relations Board to issue mostly pro-labor decisions, here is a situation where a labor union went too far and the Board just could not support them.  Recently, the …

In a decision released this month, the NLRB cleared the way for unions to display large disparaging banners outside businesses which hire nonunion contractors.  Thus a new weapon is added to the union’s arsenal when …

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit (which covers Iowa, Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota) reminds employers of the need to train supervisors on how to …