Under the “going and coming” rule, however, employers are not liable for legal wrongs their employees commit while commuting ...

A discussion of recent cases addressing the issue of employer liability for discrimination based on rejection of an employee’s request for a remote work arrangement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many ...

Employers that rely on contractors, franchisees, or staffing agencies may soon get some additional guidance about when those ...

Picture this: It’s late Friday evening and you are almost packed up for the weekend when your human resources manager knocks on your office door. Judging by the look on his face, you two aren’t going ...

The "nondelegable duty" doctrine confers liability on one party for the negligence of another to whom the former has assigned responsibility. The concept is related to, but distinct from, vicarious ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. It sounds simple: classify workers as exempt or non-exempt ...

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created by one of its employees, which infringed another company's trademark. The court ruled that Lucent Technologies was jointly responsible as (i) the website was developed using its equipment, and ...

The state Court of Appeals upheld a Macomb County judge in dismissing civil claims against several companies that owned or operated a Sterling Heights firm where two workers were fatally crushed by ...

Alexander Reich is a labor and employment attorney with Saul Ewing LLP. Most workplace harassment policies focus on the actions of co-workers and supervisors. But harassment does not always come from ...

Iowa employers just got a powerful new tool to keep messy HR files and past discipline out of negligence trials. The Iowa ...