In December 2022, the PUMP Act (Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act) went into effect. This new law amended and added to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which already provided for some break times and safe spaces for nursing employees to... read more
Each year, I watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with my kids, and inevitably I start to cry. “Dad, Dad, what’s wrong?” my eight-year-old son asks, concern wrinkling his brow. “Is it the plight of the Misfit Toys that makes you sad?” My... read more
Time to review our top 10 employment law blog posts for 2023! As your favorite South Carolina employment lawyer/blogger, I’m responsible for all blog post content on our website. I research it, I write it, I post it on social media. Does this mean I have... read more
I been wanting to write a series of blog posts about the most common types of claims that I see brought against South Carolina employees. For this first post, I’m going to focus on a claim for Breach of Duty of Loyalty. South Carolina Employees Owe a Duty of... read more
Given his Dark Side predilections, Darth Vader does better conducting job interviews than most people could ever hope to. As we’ll see in this post, our beloved Dark Lord of the Sith takes both his legal and his ethical responsibilities seriously. So what can we... read more
Early this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule that would ban non-compete agreements for employees and independent contractors throughout the United States. Before the comment deadline at the end of April 2023, the FTC received over 27,000... read more