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The ADA requires employers to reasonably accommodate disabilities—if the employee asks.

Managers deciding who to let go when faced with a RIF might be tempted to consider the total cost savings represented by each worker on the layoff list. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Employers can lessen the likelihood of workplace sexual harassment by putting up guardrails to regulate workplace romantic and sexual relationships.

For remote out-of-state employees do we need two separate handbooks?

If a government shutdown occurs, here's how HR-related federal agencies will be affected.

Under what’s called the Cat’s Paw Theory, employers can’t defend themselves against employment discrimination claims by saying they didn’t know a supervisor was biased.

The 3rd, 7th and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeal have ruled that USERRA requires paid short-term military leave on par with other forms of short-term leave.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 11 upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s 80-year-old practice of using white-collar employees’ salaries as one basis for determining if they are eligible for overtime pay.

A fresher of employer obligations under COBRA

How the discipline meeting is conducted can mean the difference between turning around a marginal employee and opening the organization to costly litigation.