This past September, Apple announced a new feature on its Apple Watch: a Live Rewind feature that allows users to review the last fifteen seconds of speech in their environment as a text transcript. This was announced together with another feature, S…
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An employee who is investigated and cleared of a sexual harassment allegation can become the victim of sex-based harassment, and an employer may be liable for failing to address it. A recent federal jury verdict involving the University of Maryland d…
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This is notice that a charge of employment discrimination has been filed against your organization… Getting an EEOC charge is a moment most employers would rather avoid, but it is also a familiar part of managing a modern workplace. EEOC charges of…
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Business owners pour years of blood, sweat, and tears into building their companies. Managers invest their time and energy in leading and supporting their teams. Given that level of personal investment, it is understandable that workplace complaints…
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How granular is the FLSA’s requirement to pay overtime? Let’s say an employee is in the middle of editing a document for work and, rather than stopping short at 5pm, goes until 5:05. Do you have to pay time-and-a-half for those extra five minutes…
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Consistency in employment practices is a strong safeguard against legal risk. Nine out of ten employment attorneys agree that consistency is crucial to avoiding liability. Ok, that’s not true. Ten out of ten employment attorneys agree that “it de…
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In Part I, I examined the court’s March 2025 opinion in TK Elevator Corporation v. Drzewiecki, which granted injunctive relief on TKE’s claim for breach of a restrictive covenant but denied relief on its trade secret claims for lack of specificit…
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Employers often view restrictive covenants like insurance—a protective measure you hope never to need, but that helps you sleep at night. Their real value, though, is measured not when they are signed, but when they are tested in practice. That tes…
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Can a company discipline, or even terminate, an employee who misbehaves outside of work? Here’s the scenario: a warehouse operations supervisor at a Maryland distribution company disciplines an employee for repeated safety violations and insubordin…
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What risk does an employer face from failing to pay employees correctly under the federal minimum wage and overtime laws of the Fair Labor Standards Act? Companies who are interested in the answer might ask one of the 176,957 employees who received b…
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