Courts have little leeway to avoid enforcement of an arbitration clause. Indeed, the United States Supreme Court has spilt much ink reinforcing the power and scope of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), the legislation requiring that courts compel arbitration of...
The client calls are a regular part of my everyday, increasingly so during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress. Anxiety. Depression. The causes are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Simply put, a growing number of our employees are dealing with serious mental health...
I still think an emoji would have helped. A couple of years ago, I posted about a decision from an administrative law judge who found that Ben Domenech, co-founder and Executive Officer of FDRLST Media, LLC, and publisher of the libertarian webzine The Federalist, had...
“I’m here to listen.” It’s an innocuous enough statement for management to make to employees. What could possibly go wrong when a manager tells employees she’s there to “listen”? If a union representation petition is pending,...
Employers can breathe a sigh of relief … for now. On May 12, 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed Introduction Number (Int. No.) 134-A into law, just days before the current salary disclosure law was set to take effect. New York City’s salary disclosure law...
