Labor Days
Supreme Court Stays Fourth Circuit’s Ruling Affirming Transgender Students’ Bathroom Rights
The Supreme Court stayed a Fourth Circuit ruling that requires schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as. We are monitoring the case for its impact on employers going…
Lessons to be Learned from Uber’s “Wrong Turn” with a Private Investigation
In today’s era of social media and the internet, many of us have an insatiable desire for information and a knee jerk reaction when attacked: What dirt can we find out about our adversary? This often happens in…
Barbara Hoey Quoted on Internal Investigations in Compliance Week
I recently sat down with a reporter from Compliance Week to discuss the implications of Gilman v. Marsh & McLennan, a recent federal appeals court ruling affirming that companies have cause to terminate employees…
Workplace Video Monitoring: What Employers Need To Know
The omnipresence of video cameras is a fact of life. The average American, aware or not, is caught on surveillance camera more than 75 times a day. Given the availability and effectiveness of inexpensive video…
The Latest in Labor: NLRB Update, Part Two
Most employers know that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been on a years-long tear to make it easier for workers to unionize and harder for employers to resist those efforts. This post in two parts is the…