April 2022 By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey No More Mandatory Employment Arbitration On March 3, 2022, the federal “Ending Forced Arbitration of

    March 2022 By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey Lately, some clients have asked us what ever happened to the legalization of

By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey Late on Friday, a 6th Circuit panel of judges could be heard shouting ho, ho, ho after

By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey We know, it’s been a long time and you’ve been worried about us. Thanks for all the

By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey Ironically, well before he died from COVID-like symptoms, John Prine wrote, “I’m awfully tired of the same

 HOW IS A MILD MANNERED EMPLOYER SUPPOSED TO FIGURE OUT HR POLICIES FOR ALL THOSE OUT OF STATE REMOTE WORKERS? By Mark F. Kluger and

By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey Well it’s official—the first federal court to consider whether employers can require employees to be vaccinated as

What’s with the feds continuing to use this pandemic nonsense to mess up our Memorial Day weekends–2 years in a row? On Friday May 28,

CHECK OUT THIS NEW LAW AND MUCH MORE By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey A few weeks ago, Prince Andrew of Albany signed

EMPLOYEES ARE VACCINATED AND SOME ARE NOT? By Mark F. Kluger and William H. Healey After more than a year, we finally figured out what

Can you believe it’s been a whole year? Time sure flies when you’re hiding inside fearing a deadly virus.  To celebrate our Panniversary, we got

One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Yo dudes, like Phil and those other jokers tokers from the legislature finally got it together! Man they

Got that morning after, post-game hangover? Those two beers do you in or was it the heartburn from the Hell Fire Buffalo Wings? Maybe like us,

Most people pretend that they don’t enjoy saying “I told you so,” but not us. We kinda like love saying it. In fact, we rarely pass up an

 While 2020 will be known to most for its countless cursed events, in our little employment law bubble we will always think of it as

One of our avid readers writes in and asks: Dear Mark and Bill: Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus, there

After years of toiling in our workshop, we have finally come up with the solution to our most consistently ignored annual advice. As our avid

Last week, NYS broke its pact with neighbors NJ and CT by instituting its own new set of travel rules, dropping the list of naughty

Don’t go to Murphy’s house for Halloween this year — he’s handing out Executive Orders. Great way to get your house egged Phil! One of

Four years ago, during the Presidential election campaign, we told employers to limit or prohibit political chatter at work in order to maintain civility and

Remember long ago when we first told you about that pesky Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) that went into effect on April 1, 2020? You know, it’s the

Many employers had targeted the unofficial end of summer as the artificial end to this whole remote work thing. But as we have now crossed

On the very long list of the workplace things that have changed (and keep changing) because of you-know-what, is a phenomenon we didn’t anticipate—or at

There’s no doubt that technologies like Zoom, Webex, and Microsoft Teams have saved many employers from economic disaster by facilitating remote work. But as states like New Jersey and New

Congress was no doubt well-intentioned in April when it created 3 new forms of Unemployment Insurance benefits in the CARES Act. But now many employers