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Guidance for executive compensation in this environment

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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August 28 2009

A common theme among the Obama administration, Congress, investors and regulators is that executive compensation must be refocused on different fundamentals: long-term value rather than short-term profits; financial stability; and management of risks

What’s new in the world of job safety?

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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January 16 2009

Previous columns discussed egress (April 2007), exposure to falling loads (June 2007), hazardous atmospheres (October 2007), and water accumulation (November 2008

Employee Free Choice Act update

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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September 3 2009

Comments made earlier this week by Congressional aides and organized labor suggest that the business community’s vocal and organized opposition to the controversial Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) has achieved one of the desired goals -- slowing down the rush of the Democratic leadership and organized labor to bring the proposed legislation up for a vote

Court declines to impose excessive relevancy review, finds discovery requests too broad, refuses sanctions for failure to serve detailed preservation request

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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March 6 2008

February saw no less than six decisions address details of the burden imposed on a responding party to search and produce relevant documents

“Me, too” evidence in discrimination cases: not always admissible, not always excluded

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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February 29 2008

On February 26, 2008, the United States Supreme Court announced its decision in SprintUnited Management Co. v. Mendelsohn, which was one of the most closely watched employment discrimination cases of the current Supreme Court term

FLSA fact and fiction

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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June 8 2007

Due to a staffing shortage, your company has experienced a backlog of customer service business

Proposed Healthy Families Act: guaranteeing seven days paid sick leave could be costly to Ohio employers

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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May 24 2007

On April 6, 2007, Service Employees International Union District 1199, a labor union which has targeted Ohio for its organizing efforts, filed a petition with the Ohio Attorney General to start the process of placing a new statute, entitled Healthy Families Act (“Proposed Act”), before the Ohio General Assembly and, eventually, Ohio voters

High court rules individual pay decisions must be timely challenged

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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June 8 2007

In a decision important to employers, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs relying on a Title VII disparate treatment discrimination theory (race, sex, etc.) must timely challenge pay decisions, and cannot rely upon the “continuing violation” theory to challenge allegedly discriminatory decisions that were made prior to the time period for filing a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (300 days in Ohio

What the courts are saying...

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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May 11 2009

We begin the month with a case from the Court of Claims of Ohio

Supreme Court adopts an expansive definition of what can be a “charge” of age discrimination

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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March 8 2008

On Feb. 27, 2008, the United States Supreme Court issued its much anticipated decision in Federal Express Corp. v. Holowecki, a case that will have a profound impact on the way age discrimination claims are handled under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act

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