Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced today that he has directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reform its employee misconduct discipline processes following the ...

From the political campaigns of 2024 through the recent tragedy of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, public discourse on social media has been active, and often provocative, divisive and offensive.

Imagine that an employee in a workplace meeting stands up, and in a profanity-laced tirade, calls the manager in the meeting several names not fit for print. Most employers would immediately ...

A workplace disciplinary policy should provide the employees with clear guidelines and what consequences they can expect if the rules are broken. On paper, it sounds like a good thing; it protects the ...

This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, ...

A workplace that embraces diversity and civility is imperative for protecting employees, minimizing corporate legal risk, and advancing an organization’s business and culture objectives. In our last ...

From In the Matter of Ruggiero, decided last month by the N.J. intermediate appellate court: Ruggiero was accused of workplace misconduct and the County sought to terminate her. That sanction was ...

A chocolate pie and a custard cake worth a combined 1,050 won (about 75 cents) are at the center of a contentious legal battle that has drawn comparisons to "Les Misérables" (1862) and raised ...

The Homeland Security Department is making “significant reforms” to its employee misconduct discipline processes. The Project on Government Oversight published an investigation in April hat alleged ...

A new law in California will significantly change the way employers can address employees’ marijuana use. While prior law made clear that employers could terminate employees for off-duty marijuana use ...