Employers should regularly review their plan documents, summary plan descriptions, and other documents to ensure consistency with the ever-changing Affordable Care Act. If the employee handbook contains compensation and benefit information, the handbook language also must be regularly revised to reflect the Act’s mandates and policy changes. For instance, handbooks often specify whether the healthcare [...]
Election season will be in full swing in a few short months, as in any election, there is a strong possibility that the contentious world of politics may spill into the work place. If this happens, most of the time, it will likely be harmless banter among employees. However, there is always the risk that things [...]
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a Final Rule requiring most private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights to unionize. (See our first blog on New Employer Posting Requirements). The notice rule was originally scheduled require posting the rights in the workplace starting November 14, 2011, and then that date was postponed until January 31, 2012. Now, [...]
Nebraska Revised Statutes sections 87-501 through 87-507, known as the "Trade Secrets Act" ("Act"), contains several provisions applying to employees and employers alike when it comes to "customer lists." When an employee is considering leaving an employer, an employer's customer list may be an appealing piece of information to an employee, especially if the employee [...]
A National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Administrative Law Judge recently ruled that an employer did not wrongfully terminate an employee for two Facebook postings. The first involved pictures and remarks making fun of the quality of food being served at the employer’s BMW dealership which insinuated that the food would hurt sales and was inappropriate given [...]