Iowa Governor Chet Culver signed a bill today expanding housing and civil rights protections to the LGBT community. In signing the bill Governor Culver said,
“It is unacceptable that members of the LGBT community are denied the same protections as every other Iowan, and that is why I made a promise to do whatever necessary
With Memorial Day coming up next Monday I thought it appropriate to touch on Military Leave Laws and Veteran Discrimination.
A law known as the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) protects the rights of military service members to take a leave of absence to take a leave of absence from their civilian
Sixteen-year-old racing phenom Joey Logano accomplished what Jimmie Johnson could not this past weekend. He raced past the reigning 2007 Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick to win the NASCAR Grand National Featherlite Coaches 200. Harvick earned a $1 million payday Saturday night, winning the Nextel All-Star Challenge but didn’t have enough left to hold off the
Many employers today are conducting do-it-yourself background checks by surfing search engines and other social network sites such as Faceboook and MySpace. I have discussed the risks and liabilities of utilizing such background checks in the past.
Another reason to be careful before using search engines or social network sites is "cyber slamming". It occurs
The Better Business Bureau warns businesses across the U.S. and Canada of a spoofing scam using the BBB name and a false BBB email address to entice recipients to access potentially damaging hyperlinks.
The most recent e-mail has a false return address of consumer-complaints@bbb.org and a phishing hyperlink citing a BBB complaint case number, for
Mike Sansone pointed out a great new small business resource today in his post on IowaBiz.com. Small Business Link is a new offering from the Wall Street Journal Online. Each month the Small Business Link will focus on one particular issue facing small business owners. From there, readers will be able to participate in
Earlier this week Larry McLellan and I spoke to a group of clients concerning employment law. Larry gave a fascinating talk on conflict in the workplace. I took two main things away from Larry’s talk. First, not all conflict is negative. There can be constructive conflict in the workplace. Second, people who have good conflict
The continued success of the Central Iowa Bloggers continues to amaze me. This week both Timothy Johnson of Carpe Factum and Matt and Nathan Owen of U.S. Rodeo Supply were featured in Des Moines Register articles. That means, according to my recollection, at least 11 Central Iowa Bloggers have been featured in either the Des
Ordinarily people say only two things are certain – death and taxes. Well, there is one other thing. If I schedule a baseball practice for my little league teams it will rain.
But it’s also raining law blogs in Iowa. The law firm of Huber Book Cortese Happe and Lanz has four new law blogs
Brett Rogers of Beat Canvas had an angry post entitled "What is Wrong with America". Brett is disgusted with a justice system that allows a lawyer (and administrative law judge) to sue his dry cleaner for $67 million in damages for a lost pair of pants.
It’s cases like this one that upset
