by e-LawLines | Nov 29, 2011 | Corporate Law, Employment Law
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD) The importance of rest and relaxation has been understood for thousands of years, so the general belief that employees who take regular breaks are more productive...
by e-LawLines | Nov 8, 2011 | Employment Law
Missouri employees may want to re-think their sleeping habits after a recent decision by the Missouri Court of Appeals in Nickless v. Saint Gobain Containers, Inc. In that case, an employee was discharged after a co-worker found him asleep on the job. The employee...
by e-LawLines | Oct 21, 2011 | Employment Law
Things were looking pretty good for your sandwich shop chain. You had expanded into a new market, set up some catering contracts and hired a good manager for your new shop. You were even thinking about taking a little time off for a trip to the Caribbean to work on...
by e-LawLines | Oct 14, 2011 | Employment Law, Litigation
On October 4, 2011, the Missouri Court of Appeals reversed another decision by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (“Commission”) denying unemployment benefits to a claimant who had been involuntarily discharged from her employment. In Harris v. Div. of...
by David P. Weiss | Oct 13, 2011 | Employment Law
Just a couple weeks ago, Missouri and Illinois, along with other states, entered into an agreement whereby the respective states’ DOLs will share information with the IRS in order to permit the IRS to more strictly enforce the wage and hour laws. Companies that...
by e-LawLines | Sep 30, 2011 | Employment Law
Tab Evans was a Field Representative at Contract Callers, which performed services for St. Louis area utilities. On June 18, 2009, Evans was tasked to reconnect electrical service to Ameren UE customers in an apartment building. Evans tried to access the electrical...
