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Assume you just found out that some of your managers and their direct reports had implemented a scheme to use technology to unlawfully steal your competitor’s business secrets. That is exactly what happened in Major ...
President Trump appears to have issued a holiday gift to Liberian nationals on Dec. 20, 2019, by signing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020. Companies employing Liberian nationals may view this ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Minnesota) recently affirmed that employers charged with discrimination do not need to prove that they were right in order to prevail; they merely need to show that ...
An employee’s tweet that your company’s holiday gift was cheap has gone viral and sparked public ridicule. What can you do? Construction products giant Fastenal recently encountered this dilemma when a branch manager in Canada ...
You arrive for work one morning and see that your receptionist now has neon green hair, or maybe has it braided with brightly colored beads or twisted into dreadlocks. Is this an overt breach of ...
2019 was neither merry nor bright at Santa’s Workshop. Their delivery business dropped 30% due to competition from Amazon, and they recently were served with a class action lawsuit for emotional distress on behalf of ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently announced new rules for representation case procedures which will come as welcome news to employers. Many of the changes revise the 2014 Obama-era Board’s so-called “quickie” election rules ...
After Minnesota enacted the new Wage Theft Law in July of 2019, the City of Minneapolis jumped on the bandwagon and passed a very similar wage theft law in August, as we previously reported in ...
