Littler Report

The Employee Free Choice Act: A Critical Analysis

The Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (EFCA) is likely to be re-introduced in Congress in some form in the next session. If enacted, the EFCA would result in the most sweeping changes to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) since the original...

Employer Mandated Wellness Initiatives: The Continuum from Voluntary to Mandatory Plans

A year after Littler first examined how far an employer can go toward mandating wellness in the workplace, this 2008 Littler Report examines where we are a year later. As the leading source of medical insurance, employer-sponsored group insurance...

Total Wage and Hour Compliance: An Initiative to End the Wage and Hour Class Action War

Wage and hour class actions are rising sharply and the potential exposure is unprecedented. The number of wage and hour class actions filed in federal courts more than doubled from 2001 to 2006, and settlements are frequently in the multi-million...

Employer Mandated Wellness Initiatives: Respecting Workplace Rights While Controlling Health Care Costs

This Littler Report discusses how far an employer can go toward mandating wellness in the workplace. With health care costs projected to double by 2016, reaching $4.2 trillion and representing 20 percent of every dollar spent, no employer can afford...

Who’s There? What to Do When the Government Is Knocking on Your Door - An Employer’s Guide to Handling Government Visits and Information Requests

The focus of this Report is to provide employers with a guide on what to do in various situations when a government agency is either at the employer's premises or has sent a request for information or notice of inspection. Various situations are...

Strategic Initiatives for Countering the Class Action Epidemic

The focus of this Report is the rising epidemic of employment law class actions and the challenge they reflect and create for the employer community. In responding to these claims both a procedural and a substantive solution is outlined in the form...

Littler Report White Papers

With dead-on analysis and uncannily accurate forecasts, the Littler Report provides readers with a comprehensive review of the employment law trends impacting the workplace now and into the foreseeable...

How to Win the Battle Over Electronic Discovery

Stored in vast quantities on a wide range of storage media and vulnerable to modification by employees, electronic records are particularly slippery to manage. In an employment case, plaintiff's counsel can easily turn electronic discovery into a...

Strategic Initiatives for the World at Work

On the tails of 9/11, Madrid bombings and other terrorists' acts as well as the Enron, Tyco, HealthSouth and Worldcom corporate scandals, Littler identifies strategic initiatives for the "World at Work."  This white paper discusses the...

Strategic Initiatives for the Changing Workforce

In response to the changing demographics of the American workforce, Littler identifies in this white paper four strategic initiatives involving the changing workforce.  The four initiatives include: (1) the emergence of corporate diversity as an...

The Critical Role of Trust Between Employees and Employers in the Development of Workplace Law

The rash of corporate scandals has highlighted the important of trust between employers and employees. This white paper discusses the causes and symptoms of the diminished workplace trust, and the legal and ethical challenges for companies trying to...

The Next Great Trans-Atlantic Voyage: European Laws Protecting Human Resources Data Arrive on America's Shores

Globalization! The much-ballyhooed war cry of American business during the past decade could soon become a double-edged sword for United States businesses with employees in the European Union (the "EU"). The EU's fifteen Member States have...