In our last post on this topic, we reviewed the essential elements of a valid employee separation agreement that includes an employee’s release of claims against the employer (i.e., the agreement must ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”)—the agency tasked with enforcing federal labor laws—was deputized by Congress in 1972 with authority to bring lawsuits against employers for ...

Coming to terms regarding inheritance concerns is a natural part of the process when divorcing spouses sit down to settle their legal and financial affairs in a written agreement. The interest in ...

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released on Friday her first executive directive of 2021 on the use of separation agreements by state departments and agencies, with the goal of safeguarding the ...

A California appeals court said employers can't bargain away their power to seek a workplace violence restraining order, even ...

TRI-CITIES, TN (WJHL) – Instead of firing bad teachers some area school districts are giving those bad apples a different kind of out by signing separation agreements. A yearlong Community Watchdog ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Five Clay County employees, including three assistant county administrators, will resign by the end of the year, according to separation agreements announced Tuesday. Brad Garrett, ...

LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — After facing questions and criticism about the separation agreement between her office and former Michigan Health and Human Services Director Robert Gordon, Gov. Gretchen ...

In a Jan. 26 interview, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had an emphatic answer to whether there was any legal agreement that barred her from speaking about the departure of former Michigan Department of Health ...

Tim (not his real name) and his live-in girlfriend come to meet me. Jamie wants to get married, “We’ve been living together for five years and it’s time!” she says. “I have been more than patient, but ...