Real Life Employment Law
Quirky Question # 129: One of our company’s employees apparently has a Facebook account. Many of her co-employees are her Facebook “friends.” One of our managers heard that at least some of these employees used the Facebook account to post very negative comments about the company and our managers, including him. Consequently, he persuaded one of the employees who was...
Federal and State Privacy Laws The number and complexity of federal and state privacy laws continue to increase. These laws affect a broad range of public and private companies, including U.S. companies as well as foreign companies that conduct business in the United States. Any company that possesses personal information relating to U.S. employees, customers, shareholders or others likely is...
Quirky Question # 116: I am the owner of a small private company. I was recently alerted by my secretary that various computers around the office, including some in private offices, have been used late at night to access the internet. The late-night use has included accessing pornographic websites from a couple of the offices. I need to discovery who...
Quirky Question # 85: We recently heard a rumor that a member of our software engineering staff is planning to leave and start a software company of his own that may compete with us. Further, we have heard that he is discussing his plans with others outside of our company using the desk phones in our San Francisco office. We...
Quirky Question # 49: We have had various situations where we have thought that secretly installing a video camera would help us identify individuals behaving inconsistently with our company’s workplace rules. We don’t know whether this is a good or bad idea and we don’t know what risks are associated with secret videotaping of our employees. Do you have any...
Quirky Question # 38: Our company is a food retailer. We hired a convicted sex offender, who, after serving time in prison for his felony conviction, had been released. Given that he had “paid his debt to society,” we felt that we should not refuse to hire him because of his prior conviction. Moreover, because the job for which he...
Quirky Question # 36: We recently learned that one of our employees has illegal pornography on his work computer. We know we can discipline him (up to and including termination).The police recently requested a copy of his computer hard drive. Can we turn the hard drive over to the authorities even if they do not have a search warrant? Do...
Quirky Question # 33: I am the VP of HR for a hospital. Each of our employees receives a formal policy, prohibiting them from divulging any “patient care data” to anyone. Our policy is compliant with federal law. A nurse in our ER recently became aware that a mother and her two children were being evaluated for meningitis, and that...
Jack SullivanJack is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employment group, where he focuses his practice on employment advice, litigation, and traditional labor-law issues. In his advice practice, Jack helps clients avoid litigation and position themselves effectively in case an employee does bring a claim. When counseling employers, Jack draws both from his legal experience and from the practical experience gained in his first career as a print reporter and newsroom manager, including service as a regional correspondent for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., as a reporter and editor for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, and as the manager and editor of a suburban news team for the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Ieva AubinAs an employment and business immigration attorney, ...
Rebecca BernhardRebecca's experience spans traditional labor...
Marilyn ClarkA Partner in the Labor & Employment practice gr...
Michael DrokeMike started his career as a client, not a lawyer...
Aaron GoldsteinAaron is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employ...
Jillian KornblattJillian is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employ...
Laura LestradeLaura began practicing at Dorsey in 1992 and has s...
Jessica LinehanJessica is a Partner in the Labor and Employment gr...
JoLynn MarkisonJo is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor & Employment Gr...
Ryan MickFor more than a decade, Ryan has counseled corpo...
Melissa RaphanMelissa is a Partner in Dorsey’s Labor and Employ...
Robert WebberBob has 20+ years of experience hand...
Gabrielle WirthEmployers turn to Gabrielle for guidance on how they...