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EPLI Coverage: If You Like Us, Let Them Know

By Alan E. Seneczko / June 16, 2017

Over the last ten years or so, Employment Practice Liability Insurance (“EPLI”) has become a more and more common form of insurance coverage for businesses. Unlike traditional sources of coverage, which insure against risks associated with business operations, products, work injuries, hazards, etc., EPLI covers an employer against liability stemming from employment practices, such as…

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Court Clarifies “Misconduct” and Attendance

By Alan E. Seneczko / March 27, 2017

In 2013, the Wisconsin legislature tightened the eligibility requirements for unemployment benefits as they related to discharges for attendance. Under the previous law, an employee had to have “5 or more” absences without notice in a twelve-month period in order for his/her absenteeism to rise to the level of statutorily-defined misconduct. The legislature reduced that…

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NLRB Rejects Wisconsin’s Dues Checkoff Restriction

By Alan E. Seneczko / March 10, 2017

Wisconsin’s Right-to-Work law, which became effective on March 11, 2015, prohibits employers and unions from entering into agreements which require membership in the union or the payment of dues as a condition of employment (“union security agreements”). The law also prohibits employers from deducting union dues from an employee’s wages unless the employee has signed…

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New OSHA Reporting Regulations Become Effective

By Alan E. Seneczko / January 12, 2017

In a previous issue, we discussed a new OSHA reporting regulation that was initially scheduled to take effect on August 10, 2016, but was pushed back to November 1, 2016, and then delayed again until December 1, 2016 as a result of pending litigation by a number of trade associations, which sought to enjoin the…

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Dealing with Post-Election Conflict in the Workplace

By Alan E. Seneczko / November 11, 2016

As we all know, events occurring outside the workplace usually find their way into the workplace – but generally with little disruption or impact. It is therefore not surprising that the results of the recent election and the divisiveness that it has produced have spilled into the workplace – only this time with disruptive and…

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Provisions of Non-Compete Law Apply to No-Solicitation of Employees Restraints

By Alan E. Seneczko / September 27, 2016

It is common, if not standard, for most non-compete agreements to contain a clause that prohibits the covered employee from soliciting current employees to terminate their employment in order to accept employment with a competitor. In essence, it prohibits the departing employee from raiding his/her former employer’s valued employees. Until recently, the courts have never…

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