Michael Moore of the Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog has an excellent post on the possibility of reverse discrimination when employers make decisions under the auspices of voluntary affirmative action plans, diversity programs, or even "risk management". Michael says:
I am surprised by how many companies will select non-minority employees for layoff in a reduction in
I encourage you to check out Blawg Review #126 written by Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends. Anita is a lawyer by training but an entrepreneur at heart. Her award winning Web site was the "Best of the Web" according to Forbes Magazine for small business blogs.
The lineup of small business experts on Anita’s
Charlie Longbrief, attorney at law, had just turned off his computer late on a Friday afternoon when the phone rang. It was Pete Geek who owned a local computer consulting service.
"Charlie, I’ve got a problem," Pete said.
"Tell me about it," Charlie said.
"Well, I had to fire one of my sales people earlier
Thanks to Nina Kaufman for quoting my post "Employees v. Independent Contractors" on the Entrepreneur.com Blog Network. Nina’s blog on the network is "Making It Legal: The small business mentor’s guide to entrepreneurship and law." Her advice on the employee v. independent contractor issue is excellent:
This is not an area to
Drake University Law School is hosting a Risk and Responsbility in the 21 Century Symposium on September 7, 2007.
The goals of the symposium are (1) to explore the notion of risk, (2) consider how we should respond to it in this century, both in the private and in the public arena, and in
Small Business Owners – Beware! If you own or manage a small business you live in a world of substantial legal risks and increasing complexity. It is easy to find examples of practices that once have been common but now could give rise to employment lawsuits. One such example I often hear is "I’ll
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Matt Gardner has an interesting post on his Wealth and Estate Planning blog about the "pot of gold" Iowa landowners are sitting on because of the renewable energy craze and why they should review their estate plan. (Sounds like Iowa farmers have something in common
Employee Handbooks, FMLA
Continue Reading Copy Another Company’s Employee Handbook at Your Peril
I am excited to announce that the Sullivan & Ward law firm will publish its Iowa Law Blog beginning in mid to late August. The firm’s law blog will cover general legal issues inlcuding the following areas of law:
Michael Moore has an informative post on Developing a Record Retention Policy on his Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog. Michael raises a particularly insightful issue:
Anticipate the arguments that may be made and inferences that could be drawn from the destruction of certain documents and weigh it against the expense of retaining and producing the
