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Home for the holidays (or not?): Navigating employee holiday travel amid the COVID-19 pandemic

By DLA Piper on December 22, 2020
Posted in Employment Policies, OSHA/Workplace Safety

By Kevin Harlow and Maria Garrett

The holiday season marks a time each year when many of us travel to visit family and friends. As with everything else in 2020, the holidays will likely look…
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Franchisor Liability For Franchisee Employees: Damn Weasels

By Kevin Harlow & DLA Piper on March 31, 2014
Posted in Employment Litigation, Wage-and-Hour

Weasel words, not epithets for employees with legal claims, are the problem. “…[C]ourts have been nearly uniform in holding that a franchisor should not be deemed to be an ‘employer’ … when plaintiff works for …
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Employee Handbooks (1971 – 2014): R.I.P.

By DLA Piper on February 4, 2014
Posted in Employment Policies, FLSA, NLRB

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Julius Caesar, Act II, scene 3

It is time to inter handbooks. Yours is undoubtedly an unfair labor…

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Shoulder-Surfs Up

By DLA Labor Dish Editorial Board on September 3, 2013
Posted in Employment Policies

The “shoulder-surfer” is that insufferable snoop at Starbucks, at the airport, on the bus, or anywhere else who peers over your shoulder and observes your online moves. Exasperating as it may be to share your…
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