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November 25, 2020
Corporate Employment Lawyers For Executives and Management Teams For over 40 years Neel, Hooper & Banes, P.C. has provided general counsel to businesses and corporations for all labor and employment matters.…
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By Kelline R. Linton, Associate. On Monday, the Fifth Circuit upheld the validity of arbitration agreements that bar employees from pursuing collective actions, affirming the Court’s precedent…
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By Kelline R. Linton, Associate. In Naylor v. Securiguard, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a meal break may actually be…
Read more →September 24, 2015
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. On-the-Job Fighting Most companies today have policies prohibiting fighting and violence at the workplace. However, a recent Utah Supreme Court…
Read more →September 16, 2015
By Kelline R. Linton, Associate. Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOL”) issued a memorandum explaining several important policy changes for corporate investigations. In the memorandum,…
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September 9, 2015
By Kelline R. Linton, Associate. On Monday, President Obama signed an Executive Order requiring all federal contractors to offer paid sick leave by 2017. Federal contractors must…
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September 3, 2015
By Kelline R. Linton, Associate. Last Thursday, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) overturned decades of precedent by establishing a new standard to determine whether two companies…
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By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. The Customer May Not Always Be Right! A Lowe’s store in Virginia recently received a request from a customer: No…
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August 7, 2015
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. Keeping an eye on the NLRB As August winds down, some NLRB watchers are expecting to see a flurry of…
Read more →July 29, 2015
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. EEOC FILES SUIT Hillshire Brands Company in Paris, Texas, was sued this week by the EEOC. The EEOC claims the…
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