Did you know that, if your employer sexually harasses you, steals your wages, or discriminates against you when awarding promotions, you may not be able to sue them? If this comes as a surprise to you, you’re not alone. What is a Mandatory Arbitration Agreement? Think about all those forms you signed when you were
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America’s Most Dangerous Jobs
Bomb testers? Bail bondsmen? Stunt doubles? Sure, those jobs are risky business. But plenty of ordinary, everyday jobs also make the cut for America’s Most Dangerous Jobs. Here is our top 10 list of notoriously dangerous fields: Loggers / Landscapers / Groundskeepers: Watch out for falling trees, chainsaws, grinders, and other hazards of working in
The Whys and Whats We Ask When NC Construction Workers Are Killed
With a construction worker in Beaufort, NC getting killed on May 23, it’s starting to feel like there are too many people dying on the job these days. A lot of recent worker deaths and injuries have occurred on the highway. For just two recent examples, a woman driving on I-95 near Lumberton two weeks
Leto presenting at ABA Labor & Employment conference
The American Bar Association’s 4th Annual Labor & Employment Law Conference is taking place this week in Chicago. As part of the conference’s Litigation Track, Leto Copeley is presenting a paper entitled “The Care and Feeding (or Challenging) of Expert Witnesses” as part of a panel on the use of medical experts. The paper discusses some of
Fourth Circuit rules for sexual harassment victim
The Fourth Circuit has issued another good decision in favor of employees who are sexually harassed in EEOC v. Fairbrook Medical Clinic. This case involves a family medicine practice in Hickory, North Carolina. Here’s the summary: “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought this suit on behalf of Dr. Deborah Waechter against her former employer, Fairbrook Medical