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The 2018 Minnesota Legislature passed a bill making critical substantive changes to the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Statute. These changes help employees in certain industries establish their PTSD diagnosi while also increasing certain payouts available to ...
A Minnesota executive claimed that a compensation agreement guaranteeing his salary and bonus until a specific sales threshold was met was actually a binding employment agreement. He was wrong. The Agreement Daniel Ayala began working ...
It was hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court decision on a Christian baker’s right to refuse to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple would feed our hunger for certainty on the issue of ...
An employee who was terminated for violating her employer’s conflict-of-interest policy can not sue her former supervisor after the supervisor discovered the conflict, conducted an investigation, and recommended that the employee be fired. Supervisor Learns ...
The viral video of the now-infamous New York lawyer ranting about Spanish-speaking food service workers was a true head-shaker moment. It also is a reminder that workplace language can trigger not only strong emotions but ...
In a much anticipated ruling, the United States Supreme Court announced today that employers may utilize class action waivers. This means that employers may require their workforce, as a condition of employment, to sign agreements ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which hears cases in Minnesota) just decided that an employer need not reassign an employee whose disability limited him to working no longer than an 8-hour shift. Jerry Lee ...
Hennepin County District Judge Mel Dickstein has ruled that the City cannot enforce its sick leave ordinance against so-called “non-resident employers” – employers without a physical presence in the city. Basis for the Decision The ...
