Specialty Group: Employment and Labor Law

Contact: Tony Stumm; Carter Newell (Queensland, Australia) In recent years, employee share or option plans have fallen out of favour due to a combined effect of taxation implications for employees and regulato ...

Contact: Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP (Missouri, USA) In recent years, sponsors of many defined benefit (“DB”) pension plans have closed their plans to new entrants. Following such a “soft freeze,” new h ...

Contact: Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP (Missouri, USA) Public employees enjoy more protections in the workplace than employees in the private sector. This is especially true when it comes to First Amendment right ...

Contact: Shannon Lawless; Ryan, Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC (Washington, USA) Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employer can require its employees to sign an arbitration agreement prohibiting the ...