For the past five Noels, I’ve concluded my posting year with “The 12 Days of Employment Law Christmas.” As this has become a year-end tradit...

For the past four Noels, I've concluded my posting year with “The 12 Days of Employment Law Christmas.” As this has become a year-end tr...

For the past three Noels, I published “The 12 Days of Employment Law Christmas.” As this has become a year-end tradition at the blog, I’m sh...

The last day of 2012 brings my year-end countdown to a close. Here are my two favorite posts of the past year. 2. How to avoid your organiz...

Today, numbers 3 and 4 on the countdown. 4. New pregnancy legislation is unneeded; the law already requires accommodation of expecting empl...

My year-end countdown continues with the my number 5 and 6 favorite posts of the year. 6. Even terminations over “genitalia sandwiches” can...

Let’s continue our walk through my favorite posts of the past year. 8. When defending employment cases, chasing attorneys’ fees is a snipe ...

Today, I start my annual year-end countdown of the year’s top posts. In years past, I’ve done the 10 most important issues and the 10 most p...

   2.  “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law?” My answer—the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLS...

   4. Charlie Sheen and the National Labor Relations Board CBS fired Charlie Sheen, in part because he made public disparaging comments...

   6. EEOC sues for disabled shoplifter You might think that a $1.39 bag of chips, for which the employee later paid, is not a fireable...

   8. What does St. Patrick have to do with human resources? Legend tells us that in the 5th century, St. Patrick banished all snakes f...

   10. Unstable employees, direct threats, and the ADA Employers faced with a legitimate and potentially dangerous employee need not ...

2. Social Networking.   Mark Zuckerberg made the top of Time Magazine's annual list , but could only reach number two on mine. Last year...

Our next two stories impact women during and immediately after pregnancy. 4. Lactation Breaks. One of the lesser heralded provisions of th...

Numbers 6 and 5 on our list takes up employee privacy rights and employee disability rights. 6. The Intersection of Privacy and Technology....

The next two stories on the yearly run-down both involve goings-on at the EEOC. 8. The EEOC Declares Open Season on Background Checks. Do ...

We start this year’s review not only by looking back at the past year, but also by looking forward to two stories that will dominate the he...

2. The Economy. This past year brought us the worst recession this country has seen in nearly 80 years. It should not surprise anyone that...

4. The Swine Flu. Apart from the economy, no story dominated the headlines more in 2009 than H1N1. Because employees get sick, and need to...