Monday, October 2, 2023

Legal Column

Legal Perspective: Workers’ Comp: how to deny a claim and make it stick

Often employers are confronted with situations in which an employee’s claim is either fraudulent or at least exaggerated regarding its severity

Sixth Circuit reverses summary judgment in ADA case  

A recent decision from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reminds employers of the need to communicate directly with...

OSHA conducting focused inspections on healthcare 

On March 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a Memorandum for...

Overview of the EEOC’s 2022 caregiving responsibilities guidance

Over the past several decades, employee caregiving requirements have created operational readiness, employee morale, and employment law liability exposure...

New law that would prohibit forced arbitration of certain claims

On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the “End to Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual...

Lucky pennies or retaliatory conduct?

Most of us read the story a few months ago about an employer in Georgia paying an employee his...