Labor & Employment Law

Lunch Time Can Be Work Time: Employers Beware!
I have encountered a number of cases where employees do not, whether unintentionally or otherwise, work through their lunch hours (or half-hours) and then later claim they are owed wages or overtime for that work...

E-mail is a Dangerous Tool - Beware! Beware! Beware!
Law is Cool discusses the ridiculous behavior of inexperienced and experienced lawyers (I have no doubt it extends to all professions) when it comes to the inappropriate use of e-mail in this post "Legally Rude Jerks of the Web"...

Lunch Labor Laws - Federal and State
My original post on lunch break laws still remains one of the most popular articles on this blog. Many people are highly interested in lunch labor laws, as evidenced by the 98 comments that are still being posted...

Beware of Jury Duty Scam!
If someone calls you and says you missed your date for jury duty and could be arrested as a result, hang up the phone. According to various postings on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's website, this is a scam...

Seemingly Never-Ending String of High School Lunch-Time Car Accidents Fuels Debate Over Open Campuses
A fatal car accident involving students driving off of school grounds during lunch period has again focused attention on whether ?open campuses? are a concept that should be ended. Following a crash on April 10, 2008 in which two West Hempstead High School students were killed and another seriously injured, New York State Assemblyman Michael [...

Bot makers: beware!
In March we reported that Vivendi had sued the author of a software tool that automates certain in-game tasks such as fighting in World of Warcraft. Vivendi claimed that the software tool infringed its copyrights because the tool copies game code into RAM in order to avoid cheat-prevention software, and also violates the game's end-user licence agreement...