by Jeremy Rickson | Dec 10, 2014 | Employment Law, News
by Randall Sutton – Employment Law & Litigation Practice Group Chalk up a wage and hour win for employers in a U.S. Supreme Court case decided today. The issue was whether employees who are required to wait in line at a security checkpoint before leaving work...
by Jeremy Rickson | Nov 7, 2014 | Construction, Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy, Dental, Employment Law, Financial Services, Health Law, Litigation, News, Winery/Vineyard/Brewery
In the waning days of the election, we were asked by employers, from an employment law perspective, what the passage of Measure 91, which legalizes recreational marijuana use in Oregon, would mean for their business and their drug policies. With Tuesday night’s...
by Robert J. Saalfeld | Sep 24, 2014 | Business & Taxation, Employment Law
Protect Your Business from Corporate Raiding by Key Employees By Randall Sutton Trust in your key employees is critical to business success. In a closely held business, an employee’s disloyalty can bring even the most successful business to the brink of bankruptcy....
by Jeremy Rickson | Sep 23, 2014 | Employment Law, Litigation, News
NLRB Rules that Cussing Out Employer May be OK by David Briggs Have you ever had an employee just lose his cool and lay into you with a profanity-laced tirade? Many employers who have had that pleasure have fired the insubordinate employees on the spot. In one of its...
by Jeremy Rickson | Sep 8, 2014 | Employment Law, News
Just as the temperatures really heated up this summer, so did new developments in Employment Law. With new Supreme Court cases, executive orders, local ordinances, and agency guidance, a lot happened this summer. Here is an overview from the summer of 2014 – Saalfeld...
by Jeremy Rickson | Sep 1, 2014 | Employment Law, News
By Jennifer Paul Late summer means harvest time, but it also can mean unwanted visits from the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”). In 2012, the DOL found several Marion County farms in violation of wage and other labor violations. Rather than simply...
