September 16, 2013
The California Minimum Wage Is About To Increase
Last week, the California Legislature voted to increase the state minimum wage to $9.00/hour by July 2014 and to $10.00/hour by January 2016. The bill passed both the Assembly and…
Read More ›A U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey has just found that private Facebook postings by an employee about her employer are subject to the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C….
Read More ›August 15, 2013
Social Media Policies: It’s All About Respect
Would you believe that 1.1 billion people use Facebook and one-third of Americans use social media for at least an hour a work. Considering how prevalent social media is, you…
Read More ›For the first time since January 2012, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) unquestionably has a quorum to issue rulings. This comes on the heels of the U.S. Senate’s votes…
Read More ›July 29, 2013
NLRB Turns Its Focus To Employer E-Mail Policies
According to the National Labor Relations Board, employers are free to have policies limiting e-mail usage for business purposes only. They are just not free to enforce it. At a…
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