CHICAGO, IL (October 26, 2022) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added Richard Kienzler and Marissa Ingley as shareholders in its Chicago office. Kienzler, who has extensive experience in noncompetition and trade secret disputes, joins from Freeborn & Peters LLP. Ingley, who
Archives for October 27, 2022
California union alleges that fast-food effort to block new labor law is ‘willfully misleading voters’
California’s largest union on Thursday lodged a complaint with state officials alleging that a fast-food industry coalition violated state election rules in its campaign to block a landmark labor law from going into effect.
‘I didn’t know you could get fired for being unhappy in the workplace’: Worker says she was fired for ‘being unhappy’
‘If that’s the case then they should probably just let everyone go who has a job ever.’
A New Book Reveals What Is Actually Causing Workplace Burnout (and How to Prevent It)
More effort has been made to help people cope with burnout, rather than on preventing burnout from happening in the first place.
From A Healthier Workplace To A Healthier World
Social determinants of health (SDoH) have been a trending topic for some time, and with good reason.
These Are the 5 Worst Signs of a Toxic Workplace, According to a New Surgeon General Report
Bad work-life balance is only one of them.
5 Reasons Why Its Important To Have A Good Workplace
The workplace is built with time, space, interpersonal relationships and methodology. This is why its value is beyond just four walls.
What today’s workers want: More money, greater flexibility
HR personnel are acutely aware of increased financial concerns among plan members.
Michael Holzapfel Comments on Implications of ERISA Preemption and Post-Dobbs Abortion Coverage
Michael Holzapfel comments on implications of new state laws regulating abortion that followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision undoing a constitutional right to the procedure may be on a collision course with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in “State Abortion Laws Raise ERISA Preemption Questions,” published by Law360.
ACC Honors Jackson Lewis as 2022 Outstanding Network Sponsor of the Year
Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce the firm was named the 2022 Outstanding Network Sponsor of the Year by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), at the ACC Annual Meeting held at Resorts World Las Vegas on October 23.
Court Finds No ERISA Liability for Plan Provider Who Delivered Self-Interested Rollover Advice
A New York federal court recently held that a service provider for employer-sponsored retirement plans was not liable as a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) when it used participant information to encourage certain plan participants to roll over assets into its more expensive managed account
What to Do When a Job Offer Is Rescinded
It isn’t common, but it can happen. Here’s why your job offer was revoked and what you can do about it.
Women leaders switch jobs at record rates as they demand better from their workplaces
As American workers have reevaluated their lives and careers en masse in recent years, they’ve ushered in major workforce trends — from the “great resignation” to the “great reinvention” to “quiet quitting.”
For Rail Workers, Anger Persists Over Sick Leave
A tentative new contract brokered by the White House offered employees one day off, leaving some dissatisfied and raising the risk of another impasse.
What’s the Salary? N.Y.C. Job Seekers Can No Longer Be Kept in the Dark
A new city law going into effect on Tuesday will require companies with at least four employees to post salary ranges for openings, even if the jobs involve remote or hybrid work.