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If you’re ever subpoenaed to testify in a lawsuit against your organization, what you say and how you say it can be held against you.

Here’s a warning for employers that insist workers taking medical leave must be fully healed before returning to work.

Classifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees has advantages for employers. But if you make a classification mistake, it can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A recent class-action lawsuit illustrates how careful employers must be to remove any negative consequence of taking protected FMLA leave.

The ADA requires employers to reasonably accommodate disabilities—if the employee asks.

Managers deciding who to let go when faced with a RIF might be tempted to consider the total cost savings represented by each worker on the layoff list. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Employers can lessen the likelihood of workplace sexual harassment by putting up guardrails to regulate workplace romantic and sexual relationships.

For remote out-of-state employees do we need two separate handbooks?

If a government shutdown occurs, here's how HR-related federal agencies will be affected.

Under what’s called the Cat’s Paw Theory, employers can’t defend themselves against employment discrimination claims by saying they didn’t know a supervisor was biased.