Expensive Expense Accounts

If your company has a sudden (and very public) epiphany that letting employees expense meals from strip clubs is a bad idea, you’ve already lost. Likewise, if you think that the women at your company should be invited to events based upon their perceived physical attractiveness, you’ve already lost, too. https://deadspin.com/report-under-armour-ends-longstanding-practice-of-ex-1830238082

Land Shark … I Mean, Candygram!

Fortenberry v. Gemstone FoodsIf one of your employee suffers an “adverse” outcome, don’t be surprised after the fact by a supervisor who struggles to “yeah, but…” for a valid reason. In Fortenberry v. Gemstone Foods, you’ll find a road map for how not to manage an otherwise salaried workforce. The production managers, maintenance managers and …

Thieves at the Door… and the Gateway

As 2018 winds down to a close, the biggest housekeeping risk for small businesses remains cybersecurity. If you still think your business is a manufacturing company, a services company, a retail store, an expeditor, an {insert anything else} ? You’re wrong. You are a technology company, that happens to sell manufactured products, retail products, etc. …

Guaranteed Next-Day… Litigation

Amazon is likely to be censured by British regulators over its “Prime” subscription service. More particularly, the UK’s version of the FTC, the Advertising Standards Authority, is poised to rule that Amazon’s offers of “unlimited one-day delivery” are misleading. It’s advertising law 101 that absolutes need to be substantiated. Or else you are absolutely risking …

LGBT Discrimination is Now Officially Illegal in Michigan

Big news this week, folks, big news right here in Garden City, Michigan. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that Title VII indeed protects employees from being discriminated-against based upon their sexual orientation or gender identity. You can read the story in the Detroit Free Press right here. Unless and until the US …