Labor & Employment Law Update

Almost as certain as death and taxes is the fact that technology is constantly changing. You regularly download windows updates and security patches. You regularly download operating system updates for your mobile phone and tablets. But, how often do you review your company’s data retention and email policies?

Record retention policies are incredibly specific to each business. A template policy seldom, if ever, does the job. Many businesses are subject to industry-specific record keeping obligations and, even with a single business, various departments have different ...

A recent 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Gracia v. Sigmatron, International, Inc., Case No. 15-3311, is a good reminder to employers to be careful in taking adverse action against an employee who recently engaged in statutorily protected activity. In Gracia, a longtime employee, who had complained of sexual harassment by her supervisor and filed a charge of sex discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), was fired two weeks later for allegedly allowing a subordinate to make a production error on a customer order.  The employee sued her ...