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26 Apr 2012, 6:40 am by Ted Frank
Walter Olson tackles well the controversy over Wal-Mart's Mexico problem and the Washington Post's misguided coverage. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 2:27 am by SHG
  Wal-Mart stands for America, now more than ever.As Walter Olson noted in his Cato post, Wal-Mart's biggest problem here was that it didn't even bribe smart, opening itself to charges when, had it smurfed its bribes, nobody would have broken a sweat. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 5:27 am by Isaac Gorodetski
Hans Bader, senior attorney and counsel for special projects with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, comments on a recent New York Times story that sheds light on a phenomenon Walter Olson of the Cato Institute tags as the creation of "ADA... [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 4:57 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s what I read this week (during my down time, on my iPhone): Discrimination New Theory of Discrimination: “Implicit Bias” — from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer Blog Wall Street Journal Takes the EEOC to Task on Background Checks — from Nick Fishman’s employeescreenIQ Blog EEOC: Employers have no right to ask what prescription drugs employees are on — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Even a voluntary… [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:01 pm by Mark Bennett
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison," wrote Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience. [read post]
14 Apr 2012, 3:49 am by SHG
Walter Olson has taken the Zimmerman aggregator route, where the concept of Overlawyered has never been so well chosen. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 4:56 am by Jon Hyman
— from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update Men Must be Allowed the Same Child Care Leave as Women — from Employer Defense Law Blog The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Bipolar Disorder Disability Discrimination Lawsuit — from The Proactive Employer Blog Workplace pregnancy discrimination cases on the rise — from The Washington Post Anatomy of an EEOC Charge — from Casey… [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 3:10 pm by Walter Olson
Related posts On the air (0) Young Walter Olson (1) Worst argument in history against letting Wal-Mart into one’s neighborhood? [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 7:02 am
Walter Olson reports on Overlawyered about the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to declare an unlawful McDonald’s practice of including a toy in its Happy Meals. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 7:02 am
" Walter Olson reports on Overlawyered about the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to declare an unlawful McDonald’s practice of including a toy in its Happy Meals. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 5:04 am by Jon Hyman
— from TLNT Olbermann Employment Law-Palooza — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space Quoting scripture at work — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas “Bullying” Is Becoming Part of the Zeitgeist — from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer Pet insurance as a benefit — from HR idiot Creating a Conflict-Conscious Workplace — from intown employer If the Facebook COO can leave the office at 5:30, maybe you can too… [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 5:08 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Distinguishing state & federal disability-accommodation claims — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Iowa sued on charge of subconscious bias — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Why You Need a Retaliation Prevention Policy — from Smart HR Manager Why Companies Need to Care about Caregivers: The EEOC's Focus on Caregiver Discrimination — from Employer… [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 1:00 pm by Ken
When I heard about this story from Walter Olson and Amy Alkon: A 34-year-old Ann Arbor man was sent to the hospital with a head injury after another man punched him on Saturday during a literary argument, according to police. . . . [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 4:55 am by Jon Hyman
— from TLNT The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time — from Harvard Business Review 17 Ways to Show Your Employees Appreciation — from Workplace Insights Mark Twain on employment reference law — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Turning a Termination into a Training Opportunity — from Dawn Lomer at i-Sight Investigation Software Blog Top Background Screening Survey: Criminal Records or Qualifications? [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 3:14 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Cato’s Walter Olson has more here. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 5:30 am by Jon Hyman
— from Jeff Nowak’s FMLA Insights New mandates for paid sick leave raise hackles — from MSNBC.com Labor Relations Herding home care workers into unions — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Workers, and NLRB, Under Attack — from The Nation [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 5:00 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Disabled-hiring “goals” for federal contractors — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Leave of Absence as Reasonable Accommodation for Disability? [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 4:45 am by Jon Hyman
— from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas Working from Home More Important than Showering & Spouses — from Jessica Miller-Merrell’s Blogging4Jobs 10 Things Bosses Never Tell Employees — from Inc.com Wage & Hour Annals of wage and hour law — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered DOL Proposes Significant Changes to the Home Health Care Industry — from BLEG Blog Federal Judge Enjoins Alleged Retaliatory Group Termination of… [read post]