By David M. Brown
As an employment lawyer, I regularly meet with people dealing with chronic work related stress. They often come in to my...
By Robert Smithson
The weird world of employment law sometimes compels employees to go back to work for the very employer which fired them. Recently,...
By Robert Smithson
I sometimes refer to the probation period as the Rodney Dangerfield of employment law (for those of you not old enough to...
By Robert Smithson
In the weeks before the end of 2012, I had been mulling over the phrase “do better” as a way of capturing...
By Robert Smithson
Employers commonly give department managers the authority to make employment-related decisions for their own staff. Even when a company has an in-house...
By Robert Smithson
One of the areas of employment law which remains least predictable is the enforceability of post-employment restrictive covenants. A recent decision of...
By Robert Smithson
I’ve written many times on the topic of the unpredictable impact of covenants restricting employees’ post-employment activities. What is certain about such...
By Ryan McFarlane
With websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Linkedln, LiveJournal, MySpace, Delicious, Digg, Youtube, etc, our daily montage of comments, observations, celebrations,...