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Faith Alejandro is a member of the Business and Professional Litigation group. She focuses her law practice in the areas of commercial and civil litigation with an emphasis on the defense of businesses and their executives from claims related to a wide range of commercial issues, and in professional liability matters. Faith's practice in commercial litigation also benefits from her work as a Judicial Law Clerk for the City of Richmond Circuit Court, 13th Judicial Circuit and her prior employment in mediation services as well as dispute resolution services at Virginia's Supreme Court.
On a construction site, isn’t it enough to protect employees from existing hazards? And what does it matter if no one actually got hurt? The Sixth Circuit recently answered these questions: “No it’s not enough,” and “Absolutely, it matters.” In All Erection & Crane Rental Corp. v. OSHRC, a crane rental company supplied a crane [...]
If your company policies don’t adequately define employee parameters of computer access as well as usage, then your company may find itself losing to disgruntled employees who take or misuse company data.
With high unemployment rates comes increased demand on human resource departments to provide employee references. Even though many employers increasingly shield themselves from providing insight into the former employment relationship by using resources such as http://www.theworknumber.com/, many future employers trying to get a sense of their possible future employee still try the old fashioned telephone [...]
Can an employer require its employees to speak only English in the workplace? Can you deem someone not qualified if he brings a translator to the interview?
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