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Legal Avenues Exist for Dealing with Workplace Bullying
Posted in BullyingHarassment Bullying isn’t limited to the schoolyard. Bullying in the workplace is also a hot topic among employment lawyers and human-resource professionals. One study states that 35...
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Truckers Face Roadblocks for FMLA
Posted in Truckersworkers compensation Can a trucker working for a large trucking company be excluded from the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? The answer is possibly yes, but drivers who know the law...
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Offered Severance? Questions for Hurt Workers to Ask
Getting hurt at work and getting fired are two of the most stressful occurrences for an employee. Oftentimes, these stressors are combined when an injured worker receives a severance agreement. This...
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Six Tips for Safe and Fair Holiday Employment
This time of year, many people get holiday jobs to earn extra money. That means some people will get injured at work and run into other difficulties working holiday jobs. Here are six tips on how to...
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Do I Have a Wrongful Termination Claim?
Assuming you do not have an employment contract, you can only claim wrongful termination if the firing was motivated by certain unlawful reasons. Unlawful reasons include discrimination based on sex or...
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How Employers Can Abuse FMLA
Our colleague, Tom Domer in Milwaukee, recently criticized the media for their misleading coverage of “FMLA abuse” among public employees in Milwaukee. This criticism parallels our criticism about...
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Here’s the Reality of Workers’ Compensation, the ADA, and Going Back to Work
As shown by a recent post from LexisNexis Legal Newsroom, workers’ compensation insurers and employers are finally starting to understand the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Hopefully the days...
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How the Supreme Court Decision on Same-sex Marriage Applies in the Workplace,...
Another consequence of the decision legalizing same-sex marriage is that same-sex spouses are eligible for FMLA leave to take care of a spouse with a serious health condition. This raises some...
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Three Clues Your Employer Doesn’t Want You To Return To Work After An Injury
Apologists for Thought leaders in the workers compensation insurance industry like to tout how they want injured employees to “return to work.” But insurance industry rhetoric about the importance of...
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What happens when an employee needs family leave after a work injury?
Taking leave to care for a family member can be complicated by a work injury Work injuries create all sorts of unexpected complications for injured worker. One complication is what happens when an...
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Who is going to hire me with restrictions?
Injured workers who are looking to return to work with work restrictions after an extended time of healing from an injury face some problems in returning to work. In many cases the injured worker has...
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The problem with workers’ compensation award ceremonies
Recently three injured workers were honored at the Comp Laude Gala put on by trade publication Workers’ Compensation Central. The event included a panel with the catastrophically injured workers who...
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Protect yourself and right to workers compensation at your holiday job
Nearly 13 million Americans work more than one job. Some people also take on temporary jobs in retail, warehousing and delivery during the holiday season. Here are some reminders about holiday work to...
View ArticleWhat workers should know about coronavirus and workers’ compensation
According to NBC News, at least 20 percent of healthcare workers in Italy have been exposed to coronavirus. Health care workers in Nebraska may be at a similar level of risk. Workers in essential...
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How COVID-19 complicates workers’ compensation claims
COVID-19 (coronavirus) is disrupting life for everyone. If you were hurt at work before the pandemic hit, your life has been disrupted doubly. Here are some ways how COVID-19 is complicating workers’...
View ArticlePandemic exposes problems with outsourced leave and disability
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the deep flaws of unemployment insurance, workers compensation and the employment at-will doctrine. The pandemic also shows problems with how family and medical leave...
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Feds prosecuting COVID fraud by employees
My jaw dropped last Tuesday when I read a blog post by Ohio-based management defense attorney Jon Hyman. Hyman posted the Department of Justice criminally charging an employee for allegedly defrauding...
View ArticleDid the Supreme Court undercut ADA protections for employees of religious...
Last week the Supreme Court decided that two teachers working at Catholic schools could not sue their employer for discrimination because of the “ministerial exception” to federal workplace...
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New decade, new recession, same old Equifax and TALX
Mounting unemployment claims cause distress for newly unemployed workers and create logjams for state labor departments tasked with processing and deciding unemployment claims. But record unemployment...
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Higher out of pocket costs in disputed comp. claims other COVID workers...
I had an awful realization summarizing medical bills in preparation for a workers’ compensation trial; injured workers who aren’t exposed to COVID-19 are in for a nasty surprise due to the resurgent...
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