Among the many business law issues for employers in the Denver region, sexual harassment claims remain a top concern. After the #MeToo movement arose, several states began making it mandatory for all workers to participate in anti-sexual harassment training. Although...
Like other states, Colorado has an overtime pay law stipulating that overtime hours should be paid at 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate. An employee who earns $20 per hour normally would get $30 per hour when working overtime, for example. But when do you really...
Months after the #MeToo movement's beginnings, the Harvey Weinstein fallout, Oprah's impassioned speech and the countless tweets, you may wonder what, if anything, has changed. Certainly awareness around the issue of sexual harassment has increased throughout society....
According to the latest statistics gathered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), more than 42,000 people died from opioid overdose in 2016. That amounts to 116 people per day. Of those, 40 percent were the result of prescription drug...
Patrick Snay, the former head of a private prepatory school in Miami, Florida lost his $80,000 settlement after his daughter boasted about it on Facebook. Mr. Snay filed an age discrimination complaint when his 2010-2011 employment contract was not renewed. In...
Non-competition agreements are becoming more common in the employment realm. The agreement requires certain employees or the sellers of a business to not compete with the business for a period of time after they leave. (Non-competition agreements may also include...
Recently, the EEOC settled its first systemic lawsuit alleging violations of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (hereinafter "GINA") against a nursing and rehabilitation care facility. The EEOC filed a class action lawsuit under GINA against Founders...
On December 28, 2013, about 1.3 million unemployed people will lose federal unemployment benefits. Congress is currently on break after letting a program expire that pays federal benefits to unemployed Americans when their state benefits run out. This one hundred...
An employee's right to privacy in the workplace used to apply only to personal items, storage lockers, mail, and life outside the office. However, when technology entered the equation, the right to privacy became more complicated. Both state and federal laws govern...
Mr. McArdle is a former teacher in the public schools of the town of Dracut, Massachusetts who began working there in 1997. In 2007, he entered divorce proceedings with his wife and began to drink excessively. Mr. McArdle suffered from depression, anxiety, his home...
