Labor & Employment Law

South Korea?s National News Service Arirang Interviews Me Live for the 2nd Time This Year on the Pandemic & Labor

Posted on September 15, 2020
South Korea's news service Arirang interviewed me on live TV, 9/8/20, for the 2nd time this year on the pandemic & employment in the international & U.S labor markets. I'm on a panel with Sye-ryun Song, Professor, Kyung Hee University Law School & Young June CHOE, Professor, Hallym University College of Medicine...

Pizza Today Quotes & Cites Me Extensively in Their Article ?Anticipating the Unemployment Punch?

Posted on September 03, 2020
September 1, 2020 Anticipating the Unemployment Punch By Daniel P. Smith; 9/1/20 With pizzerias forced to lay off staff amid COVID-19, employer tax rates likely to jump. Over a three-week run spanning mid-March to early April, nearly 17 million Americans filed for unemployment ? and it?s no secret the restaurant industry, home to some 15...

Reader?s Questions About Pyramiding of Overtime

Posted on August 31, 2020
Pyramiding of overtime (OT) & other OT related issues are always a popular topic among business owners & operators. See my earlier posts here. Below is one reader's recent questions & concerns going on at their unionized company. Any identifying information has been changed...

I?m Quoted in Anchorage Daily News Article: ?Is my employer required to reimburse me for things I need to telework ? like a desk chair or fast WiFi?? By Lynne Curry

Posted on August 19, 2020
Thanks to Lynne Curry for quoting me in her 8/18 Anchorage Daily News article "Is my employer required to reimburse me for things I need to telework ? like a desk chair or fast WiFi?" Is my employer required to reimburse me for things I need to telework ? like a desk chair or fast [...

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Here?s My Webinar ? Employer Obligations as Businesses Open in Phase 3

Posted on August 03, 2020
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDuqB6pRDQ Webinar - Employer Obligations as Businesses Open in Phase 3 6/23/20 webinar: Mohammed Faheem discusses with Charles (Chuck) Krugel the impact of Covid-19 on employers as businesses open up in Phase 3. It's 40 minutes long...

Webinar ? Employer Obligations as Businesses Open in Phase 3; 6/23 @ 11 AM Via Zoom

Posted on June 15, 2020
Webinar - Employer obligations as businesses open in phase 3 Presenting a webinar on Tuesday June 23 at 11 AM with guest expert employment law attorney Charles Krugel on the Impact of Covid-19 on employers as businesses are opening up in phase 3. Please send any questions you may want addressed to ceo@cfss...

6/5 Webinar, COVID-19?s Impact on Employment Handbooks & Policies Going Forward, Sponsored by City of Chicago?s Dept. of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection

Posted on June 01, 2020
Friday, 6/5 at 9:30 AM Webinar COVID-19's Impact on Employment Handbooks & Policies Going Forward Presented by Charles Krugel, a Management Side Labor, Employment and Human Resource Attorney An interactive discussion concerning the kinds of policies and practices employers will need to consider upon reopening...

3 New CLE Presentations; 1 on 6/16/20

Posted on May 21, 2020
Recently, I gave some continuing legal education presentations & have a new webinar to announce below. On 5/13/20, along with attorneys Max Barack, Helen Bloch & Gary Savine, we discussed & answered questions on "Employment Law and COVID-19" for the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, of which we're all members...

Thanks to South Korea?s Arirang News for Live Interviewing Me on the Pandemic on 5/1/20

Posted on May 09, 2020
South Korea's news service Arirang interviewed me & Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Professor, Economics & Geography, Hofstra University on their pandemic related show Friday 5/1/20. Our segment is 31.10 minutes in. It concerned May Day AKA International Workers Day & the pandemic's effect on our economy, labor markets & the unemployment rate...

Financial Poise? Announces ?I Know What You Did Last Summer: Workplace Investigations? Premiering 5/19 @ 1 PM CST through West LegalEdcenter?

Posted on May 01, 2020
Financial Poise? Announces "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Workplace Investigations" a New Webinar Premiering May 19th at 1:00 PM CST through West LegalEdcenter? This webinar is co-produced by West LegalEdCenter? and part of the "Protecting Your Employee Assets: The Life Cycle of the Employment Relationship" series...

Chuck Krugel Presentation on 4/6/11?Using Social Media to Recruit & Hire Employees

Posted on March 29, 2011
I’ll be continuing my labor & employment law presentations for Illinois workNet Centers sponsored by workNet, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) & the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity. My next presentation is on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, from 7:45 AM – 9 AM...

Youth Outreach Services 2011?s Special Events

Posted on March 21, 2011
I’ve been on Youth Outreach Services Board of Directors since October 2010.  YOS is a 50-plus year old youth (predominantly teen) housing, education & advocacy organization based in Chicago’s West Side. Please consider attending or supporting YOS...

Thoughts on Private Sector Union Relations

Posted on March 08, 2011
I recently completed my 3rd union negotiation & dispute resolution resolution of the past 6 months.  One case involved a successful union decertification, & the other 2 involved settlements before the NLRB.  For a variety of reasons, I won’t identify my clients or the unions we dealt with...

New Client Testimonial

Posted on March 03, 2011
Charles Krugel provided us with legal counsel for union issues we had.  He was professional and courteous.  He was always prompt in getting back to us and easy to reach.  His knowledge of the situation gave us confidence in his counsel.  Our issues with the union were resolved in a timely manner, sooner than all of [...

Events from Organizations I?m Involved With

Posted on February 27, 2011
On Fat Tuesday, March 8th, the Chicago Bar Foundation & the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators is holding our 11th Annual Fat Tuesday Challenge at Dave & Busters, 1030 N. Clark St., Chicago, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM.  There will be a lot of games, team competitions, food (light buffet), drinks, live [...

3 New Chuck Krugel Presentations

Posted on February 13, 2011
I’ve got 3 labor & employment law & HR seminars coming up. 1st on 2/25/11 at 9:30 AM, I’ll be doing another presentation for the city of Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs in their conference room at Chicago’s City Hall, #805, 121 N...

AIDS and the ADA: Maneuvering Through a Legal Minefield; My 1st Publication

Posted on January 25, 2011
During my 3rd year of law school, my first article “AIDS and the ADA: Maneuvering Through a Legal Minefield,” was published in Commerce Clearing House’s the Labor Law Journal, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1993.  Due to the classic and outstanding status of my article (it’s been extremely lucrative for CCH  ), you can’t easily [...

Chuck Krugel Article Published in Law Journal Newsletter?s Employment Law Strategist

Posted on January 12, 2011
My article, “Responding to Regulatory Agency Complaints, A Practitioner’s Perspective,” was just published in the January 2011 edition of the Employment Law Strategist, which is produced by Law Journal Newsletters.  You have to be a subscriber to read the article...

From My LinkedIn Group: Statistical Analysis as Evidence in Employment Discrimination?

Posted on January 02, 2011
A few days ago, on my LinkedIn Group, Charles Krugel’s Labor & Employment Law & Human Resources Practices Group, member Stephanie R Thomas, Ph.D., the owner of Thomas Econometrics in the Philadelphia, PA, area, posted an excellent examination of the use and importance of statistical analysis in disparate impact and disparate treatment discrimination cases...

For 2nd Year in a Row, My Website/Blog Chosen as One of Industry?s Best Blogs

Posted on December 27, 2010
It’s great to receive recognition! For the 2nd year in a row, my blog/website has been named a top 100 employment law blog by Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor’s The Delaware Employment Blog Top 100 Employment Law Blogs. This site came in at number 26 & is the only blog in the top 50 that’s named [...

Response from Avvo Regarding Criticism

Posted on December 05, 2010
Today, I got a response from Avvo to yesterday’s post (and other posts) criticising them.  Below is the comment to that post. Conrad from Avvo said, December 5, 2010 @ 10:26 am Charles ? not every lawyer appreciates the transparency that Avvo has brought to the legal industry, yet this is exactly what consumers want and [...

More Avvo Criticism & Possibly a Way to Game Avvo

Posted on December 04, 2010
Because of my public criticism of Avvo, I get a lot of comments about them.  A brief summary of my crticism is that it’s biased against small and solo firms because larger firms have greater wherewithal to manage the extremely cumbersome Avvo profile process, and because Avvo won’t let an attorney “unclaim” a profile after [...

New Chuck Krugel Presentations

Posted on November 16, 2010
On Wednesday, December 2, 2010, I’ll be presenting for the Chicago Bar Association’s Business Law Committee’s monthly lunch meeting at the Chicago Bar Association’s building on 321 S. Plymouth St., Chicago.  The topic of my presentation concerns employment handbooks and policies–why (or why not) businesses should use them, which policies to use and how to [...

The Impact of the Mid-Term Elections on Small-to-Medium Sized Business Regarding Labor and Employment Relations

Posted on November 09, 2010
Excerpts from the following article are also available on Slate.com’s BizBox small business blog at http://bizbox.slate.com/blog. It appears that our mid-term election results will probably have little impact for small-to-medium sized businesses in the immediate future (the remainder of 2010 into the first quarter of 2011)...

New Chuck Krugel Board of Directors Appointment

Posted on November 02, 2010
I’m very excited to announce that in mid-October, I was elected to the Board of Directors for Youth Outreach Services (YOS), http://www.yos.org/. Started in Chicago in 1959, YOS is a fully accredited and licensed child advocate that provides counseling, intervention, preventive care (e...

New Chuck Krugel Articles on Slate.com?s BizBox

Posted on October 19, 2010
My recent post concerning responding to regulatory agency complaints is now on Slate.com’s BizBox small business blog.  Part 1 is here: bizbox.slate.com/blog/2010/10; part 2 is here bizbox.slate.com/blog/2010/10.  Thanks to Steve Viuker who manages the blog.

Call for Survey Participation: Empirical Research in Employment Law for Masters Thesis

Posted on October 11, 2010
The following is from a masters candidate in industrial/organizational psychology. I’ve already taken the survey myself.  Hopefully, this research will produce useful results. My name is Erica Drew and I am currently an industrial/organizational psychology graduate student at Florida International University, collecting data for my masters thesis...

A PRACTITIONER?S PERSPECTIVE: RESPONDING TO REGULATORY AGENCY COMPLAINTS

Posted on October 04, 2010
The below article, written by me, will soon be published, in two parts, on a few different online law and business websites.  Once published, I’ll provide direct links to those articles.  However, the entire article is presented below. A PRACTITIONER?S PERSPECTIVE: RESPONDING TO REGULATORY AGENCY COMPLAINTS For business owners, one of the most troubling aspects [...

Sporadic Summer Posting

Posted on July 25, 2010
Due to having 4 federal cases, 2 state cases & 3 union negotiations & related labor-management matters ongoing at the same time & most nearing some form of resolution, my posting this Spring & Summer has been sporadic. On the other hand, union activity seems to be increasing among small businesses in the private sector...

Sparse & Sporadic Spring & Summer Posting

Posted on May 21, 2010
My posting will be sporadic and sparse during the Spring & Summer months. There’s a convergence of the completion of four court cases (2 federal & 2 state), two union negotiations and other client matters (policy & practice audits, contract drafting, etc...

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