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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planning Point: These rules vary based on state law, so the relevant state law should be carefully examined in determining whether an oral separation agreement will be enforceable. Many of the same ...

After the Jan. 5 reorganization meeting, Penn Hills remains without a manager. Mayor Pauline Calabrese announced she filed an ...

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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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – The Providence School Department has quietly parted ways with 17 tenured teachers in the last six years through an agreement that keeps the reason for the departure under ...