Publications

Once upon a time, common sense typically governed employee misconduct investigations. In those days, employers understandably and routinely cautioned employees not to discuss pending investigations with coworkers, and protected the written statements of potentially vulnerable employees who reported coworker misconduct. Normal thinking in those “good ole days” suggested that collaboration […]

On July 31, 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (“Order”), which would require certain prospective federal contractors to disclose labor law violations and would give agencies more guidance on how to consider labor violations when awarding federal contracts. You can access the newsletter article […]

As the farm economy tightens, the chances increase that your farm borrower may sell his or her grain without paying you the proceeds. Your borrower might have several reasons for doing so, but none of them are sufficient. For example, farmers may want to pay their input providers first, or […]

Twelve Presidential elections will have come and gone if Earnest Gibson III, a longtime hospital CEO, serves his entire prison sentence for violations of the Medicare anti-kickback statute. Gibson III, the longtime CEO of Houston-based Riverside General Hospital, was sentenced in June 2015 by the United States District Court for […]

The United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) has proposed a rule that will significantly increase the number of employees who are entitled to overtime protection under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA requires employers to pay employees at an overtime rate, i.e. one and a half times their […]