Criminal Prosecution, Employee Rights

Hires, Dismissals and Criminal Records: What Quebec Employers Need to Know

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 8/25/2025

In Quebec, provisions of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (Charter) govern an employer’s right to dismiss an employee or refuse to hire a candidate on the basis of a criminal or penal conviction. Employers should pay...more

Wage Theft as a Crime: States Escalate Enforcement with Criminal Prosecution

Littler on 6/26/2025

In a significant shift in labor law enforcement, states and localities across the United States are increasingly treating wage theft not merely as a civil infraction, but as a criminal offense. This trend in certain...more

France Introduces a New Concept of ‘Institutional Psychological Harassment’

Ius Laboris on 4/15/2025

The French Court of Cassation has introduced and defined a new concept of ‘institutional psychological harassment’ in what appears to be the conclusion of the so-called ‘France Télécom case’. The case, which commenced back in...more

Spa Corporate Officials Taken into Custody for Refusal to Comply with NLRB and Court Orders

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 10/11/2023

In a recent and highly unusual turn of events, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Seventh Circuit) has ordered U.S. Marshals to take corporate officials of Haven Salon + Spa (Haven) into custody for...more

The Peculiar “Personnel-ity” of California Personnel File Inspection Laws

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 12/7/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: Within the last few years, the California Legislature has amended laws related to an employee’s right to inspect personnel records, intending to ensure employees have access to those records. Since then,...more

Disciplinary Investigations of Employees – Three Names to Know

Pullman & Comley - School Law on 7/15/2015

Whenever an employer is considering disciplining an employee for misconduct, three names from 1967, 1975 and 1985 continue to be associated with employer investigations and interrogations, in much the same way that Mr....more

Self-Help Discovery Does Not Immunize Employee from Prosecution, Says NJ Supreme Court

Proskauer - Whistleblowing & Retaliation on 6/25/2015

On June 23, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Quinlan v. Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 204 N.J. 239 (2010), does not bar criminal prosecutions arising from an employee’s removal of confidential company documents to...more

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