Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Contact: Lara Radik, Senior Associate; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has recently upheld the termination of a Qantas employee who was found to have booked discount airfar ...

Contact: Marc R. Engel, Lerch, Early & Brewer (Maryland, USA) As Maryland employers have increasingly come to learn, employee claims of unpaid overtime are among the most challenging to resolve. This is true p ...

Contact: Matthew Payten, Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) The industrial laws dealing with the transmission of business can be both significant in their impact and confusing to businesses in their applica ...

In June, Montgomery County, Maryland joined several jurisdictions throughout the country in passing legislation that requires employers to provide earned sick and safe leave to certain employees working in Montgomery Cou ...