Employee Lawsuits: Negligent Hiring and Retention
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Employee Lawsuits (An Introduction and Topic Overview)
How employers can cope with the siege of employee lawsuits

Can failure of an employer to provide healthy working conditions lead to wrongful discharge?
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) protects workers from...

Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...

I work for a company that is owned and operated by Spanish people. There is only 3 people in the whole company including me who are Caucasian. The female who is supposed to be training me is "latino" and treats me very r
Is it an actual issue or are you making it an issue? It is understandable you fe...

Can I return an entire lot of merchandise is some of the items were not as advertised?
Since they were specified as leather, you do have a case - however, your best fi...

Do I have a case against my former employer?
Yes you have a case against them. Walmart just lost a case for several million d...

Relaxed Standard of Review Applies to Density Variances
The Appellate Division extended to applications for development se...

Relaxed Standard of Review Applies to Density Variances
The Appellate Division extended to applications for development se...

Review of Charles Fried
Here's my review, in Commonweal, of Charles Fried's recent book, M...

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Employees in Baltimore, Maryland File $64 Million Personal Injury Lawsuit Over Carbon Monoxide Leak
In Baltimore Circuit Court on Tuesday, 16 Ruth’s Chris Steak Hou...

Three Cases Involve Employee Requests For Religious Time Off
In Leonce v. Callahan, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 228 (ND TX, Jan. 3, 2...