| Invasion of Privacy |
|
| Employees may not have privacy rights in email sent on company-owned equipment even if the company makes assurances that all email communications are confidential and privileged. A wrongful discharge case against a Pennsylvania company that made such assurances was recently dismissed after an employee made inappropriate and unprofessional comments to his supervisor. The court found that an employee could have no expectation of privacy in communications made on a company email system to his supervisor. More... |
|
|
| Refusing to Hire Striking Workers and the |
|
| National Labor Relations Act) More... |
|
|
| Employee Benefit Plans |
|
| In 1993, ERISA was amended by the Omnibus Reconciliation Act to allow children of a group health plan participant to receive health plan benefits under an order from a state court or agency in a domestic relations case even if the child was not ordinarily eligible for such benefits under the terms of the plan. Such an order is called a "medical child support order," and the child who is the subject of the order is referred to as an "alternate recipient" of the health plan benefits.
More... |
|
|
| Privacy in the Workplace-- |
|
| General Overview of Tort Remedies) More... |
|
|
| Employer Liability for Workplace Violence |
|
| Although the term "workplace violence" may conjure images of an armed disgruntled employee entering his or her current or former place of work and opening fire on supervisors or fellow employees, such incidents make up a very small percentage of all workplace violence. Much more common are harassment and intimidation, assault, robbery, and even spousal violence directed towards employees in the workplace, which contribute to over 1,000 workplace homicides per year and thousands more injuries. For cases that evolve into lawsuits, the average settlement for an incident of workplace violence is $500,000 and the average jury award is $3 million. More... |
|
|