The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and U.S. Department of Labor have both announced that virtually all of their functions have temporarily ceased, pending adoption of a budget for FY 2014 by the federal government. Although the EEOC will allow claims to be filed so as to protect claimants from missing filing deadlines, no claims will […]
NLRB Social Media Update: Information every business needs to know, even if it’s not a union shop
The first time someone told me that a claim had been filed with the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) against a non-unionized company, my reaction was, “But the National Labor Relations Act doesn’t apply to a non-union shop.” While that may be true for many provisions of the NLRA, most private-sector employers – union or […]
Ms. Myer will chair the State Bar of Georgia’s Technology Law Institute on October 25, 2013
Ms. Myer will chair the State Bar of Georgia’s Technology Law Institute on October 25, 2013. The keynote speaker will be Jeffrey Hermes, director, Digital Medial Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaking on “Beyond Citizen Journalism: Technology, Speech and Civic Participation in the Digital Age”. For additional information […]
Federal Court Confirms Unpaid Internships Are Illegal
In a ruling last week, a federal judge in New York confirmed what has long been predicted on this website (see here and here): that unpaid internships that are not provided for educational course credit, and that are not otherwise designed primarily to benefit the intern, are illegal. Thus, production assistants who worked as unpaid […]
EEOC Sues Over Criminal Background Checks
In a previous post here, I noted that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, had begun to focus on criminal background checks by employers. The thinking is that requiring criminal background checks can constitute illegal discrimination on the basis of race because a higher percentage of African Americans than Caucasians have criminal convictions. Thus, […]
