With a possible snowstorm coming this weekend (or not) and another next week, no doubt there will be the usual rushing out to get milk and bread. But before you do so, here's a bevy of stories from the last week to keep you updated on the latest in employment law affecting employers in Connecticut.
- All eyes this week turned to the Supreme Court's acceptance of a case that may decide whether public employees have any constitutional privacy rights to personal text messages made on pagers paid for by the government. Its been covered exhaustively by many others, but the reason I think it merely deserves a short entry instead of longer is th...
With all the news about recent Supreme Court decisions, here are a few articles that you might of missed over the last few weeks:
- The Ohio Employer's Law Blog reports on an interesting 6th Circuit decision that allows a USERRA claim (the statute that guarantees job restoration after military service) to be released in a separation agreement.
- T...
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday was in the middle
of two employment law related topics. Nothing was settled but employers should keep an ear out for the resolution of two cases.
- First up, oral argument in City of Ontario v. Quon was held yesterday. The case will likely resolve the issue of the privacy levels that public employees have on their text messages. Its possible that we'll get some greater pronouncement from the Court about the privacy rights of private employees, but don't...
With my work on the Law & Technology Symposium for the Connecticut Bar Foundation last week, there's several employment law topics that I haven't had time to discuss in full.
While I've shared some of these links via my Twitter feed (which you can find at twitter.com/danielschwartz), I thought I would recap some of the most newsworthy items of the month so far.
- A recent New York Times article indicated that the U.S. Department of Labor would be cracking down on employers' use (or misuse) of interns to avoid paying employees a true salary. The
The big news this week on all the blogs has been about the Supreme Court's acceptance of a case that will potentially look at employee privacy rights in text messages for public employers. I believe it's impact is going to be quite limited to public employers with
Employee benefit cases (better known as ERISA cases, after the Employee Retirement Income Security Act) aren't the most exciting topic in the world. At this point, just by my very mention of ERISA, I'm imagining your mouse wandering off to view another page.
But yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an important case that arises out of Connecticut about retirement benefits and alleged misrepresentations by the company of those benefits. The case, CIGNA v. Amara, has...
