Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Contact: Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) In a decision handed down on 30 September 2013, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) confirmed that, in considering whether a person's dismissal is a genuine redundancy, FWC gene ...

Over one hundred HR practitioners in the Thames Valley attended a joint celebration of both CIPD and Clarkslegal's (Reading, England) centenaries, at an evening reception that reflected on the development of HR throughou ...

Contact: Elizabeth J. Forster; Blaney McMurtry (Ontario, Canada) When an employer settles a severance issue with a former employee, it is common for the employer to put a clause in the settlement agreement that pro ...

Contact: Brian Peterson; Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP (Missouri, USA) Many people have strong opinions about what constitutes appropriate work attire and could spend hours expounding on their favorite brands of ...