What do you do when your receptionist pierces her nose? When your sales associate has a sleeve tattoo that can't be covered up by clothing? When your male customer service representative announces that he is transitioning and wants to use the women's restroom? Or when an applicant for a wait staff position shows up for the interview wearing a hijab? Welcome to the brave new workplace, where an employer's right to regulate an employee's appearance and behavior with dress and appearance codes, restroom access rules, and other standards of conduct may conflict with a variety of employment law statutes. A panel of employment law experts will explore this rapidly evolving area of the law with insights into recent court cases, what federal and state agencies are doing in this area, and practical advice to help in-house counsel manage their workplaces within the law.
In sports, failure to keep your eye on the ball can mean the difference between winning and losing. This expression captures the current predicament of the fantasy sports industry, an industry where bountiful venture capital funding and rapidly expanding revenue distracted from the legal complications descending on the industry and threatened to destroy it.
No matter how well you think your company runs its safety program, sooner or later you will get a frantic phone call: OSHA inspectors are at the door. Senior management gets pretty jittery when OSHA inspectors arrive unannounced. Your best defense is a good offense, including knowing your procedural rights before the inspectors are on the doorstep.
Currell on Convergence - Part 1 on Convergence: Why Practice Falls Short of Theory
AdvanceLaw, a network of buyers and suppliers of legal work that seek to drive value by sharing quality metrics and creating data-driven best practices, recently uncovered surprising results on the value of converging law firms. This resource combines 3 blog posts from Managing Director Dan Currell on preferred provider networks: 1) theory vs. practice; 2) how to build a law firm panel that can deliver value; and 3) the necessity of active client management.
This is a checklist of some best practices for implementing a diversity and inclusion program.
This InfoPak aims to assist in-house and outside counsel alike in counseling their clients toward selecting, achieving, and protecting strong brands.
This policy is intended to be short and easy to follow, to enable our decision makers (including technical, business, and legal managers) to leverage open source software while protecting our intellectual property assets and mitigating risk.
Cloud computing allows us to easily store data without physical storage devices, helping to reduce the carbon footprint. But environmental issues from cloud data centers makes this a mixed blessing.
In this article, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is explained in the context of small businesses and non-profits. Resources are available to these sectors impacted by the current crisis.
These are sample policies regarding appearance and grooming, religion reasonable accommodation, and transgender employment.
Deutsches Institut für Compliance (DICO) guidelines provide the reader with practical and actionable recommendations on Compliance issues.
This is a sample corporate employee handbook for under 50 employees.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
This is a sample agreement between a hotel and company.
Recent regulations and future proposed changes likely will encourage in-house counsel to involve themselves in their client's financial affairs and to report improper conduct. In-house counsel need to consider corporate conduct and investigate misconduct. This article discusses the broad responsibilities of in-house counsel and provides an overview of the
post-Enron environment from the in-house perspective.
No one can anticipate every bump in the road. If you take each crisis in stride, however, you can use the experience to prepare for the future. For instance, a career resilience plan can shorten recovery time and aid in transferring skill sets from one career path to another. Learn seven key components of any career resilience plan.
This Report provides an analysis of corruption within the EU’s Member States and of the steps taken to prevent and fight it. It aims to launch a debate involving the Commission, Member States, the European Parliament and other stakeholders, to assist the anti-corruption work and to identify ways in which the European dimension can help.
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