December 2005Denver partner Jessica Brown is the author of "Employee Blogging: What Employers Don't Know Could Hurt Them," [PDF] published in the December 2005 issue of Law Journal Newsletters - Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report.Reprinted with permission, December 2005 edition of Law Journal Newsletters - Law Firm Partnership & Benefits Report, © 2005 ALM Properties, Inc.
Client Alert | December 7, 2005
Recent decisions by German courts and German and French Data Protection Authorities require international companies with German or French subsidiaries to carefully examine the local legal requirements before implementing anonymous reporting procedures and codes of ethical conduct.
Client Alert | November 28, 2005
On November 16, 2005, the U.S.
Client Alert | November 18, 2005
In its first decision of the new Term, the Supreme Court yesterday addressed the scope of an employee’s compensable workday under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ("FLSA"), as amended by the Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947. The FLSA requires, among other things, that employers pay non-exempt employees the minimum wage for every hour worked, and one and one half times the employees’ regular rate for hours worked over 40 per workweek. The Portal-to-Portal Act permits employers to exclude as non-compensable: (1) time spent "walking, riding, or traveling to and from the actual place of performance of the principal activity or activities which such employee is employed to perform"; and (2) time spent on "activities which are preliminary to or postliminar
Client Alert | November 9, 2005