by admin | Oct 25, 2018 | Employment Law, Event, Featured, General Law, News
By: Steve Collins You know that it is Election Day and I need to take off to go vote. Hold on, what you do on your time is your business, but what you do on work time is my business. I do not mean any harm, but I need to go vote. That is fine, but if you do leave...
by admin | May 24, 2018 | Featured, News
By: Steve Collins If you want to be heard, don’t whistle into the wind. From this common-sense observation comes the idiom “whistling in the wind.” The meaning of that idiomatic phrase is that such an effort is all for not and is not calculated to effect...
by admin | Jan 24, 2018 | Corporate and Business Law, Employment Law, Featured, News
By: Steve Collins How many employment laws apply to your business? Let’s count the ways, remembering this list is not exhaustive: 1.Title VII (42 U.S.C. 2000e) applies to employers with 15 or more employees. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,...
by admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Featured, News
By J. Steven Collins A clear standard in Tennessee now exists to determine whether a shareholder’s lawsuit is to be denominated a direct lawsuit or a derivative lawsuit. In Keller v. Estate of McRedmond, 2016 Tenn. LEXIS 506 (Tenn. July 11, 2016), the Tennessee...
by admin | Oct 21, 2016 | Employment Law, Featured
By J. Steven Collins On September 23, 2016, the EEOC filed suit in the Pennsylvania Federal Court against St. Vincent, taking the position its mandatory flu vaccination policy violates Title VII’s religious discrimination prohibition. This is the most recent EEOC...