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In Kliskey v. Making Opportunity Count, Inc., 2025 WL 959257 (D. Mass. 2025), Carol Kliskey claimed that Making Opportunity Count, Inc. (MOC), her former employer and a private non-profit organization, violated the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act. The alleged FMLA violations included terminating her health insurance in retaliation for…

The Illusion of Simplicity in Remote Work
Remote work has become the new normal for professional service firms—but with it comes a false sense of safety. On the surface, letting employees work from home seems like a straightforward perk. In reality, it’s a breeding ground for costly remote work compliance issues that most businesses never see coming.
What’s rarely discussed…

President Trump recently issued an executive order (EO) that effectively cancels federal collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) across 18 federal agencies. The EO is based on the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), which permits a president to terminate CBAs at agencies in the interests of national security. To qualify for this exemption from CBAs under the CSRA, the workers…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a crucial time to focus on an aspect of our lives that profoundly impacts everything else – our well-being. In the workplace, supporting employee mental health isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s smart business. A team that feels supported and valued contributes to a more positive, productive, and ultimately successful organization.

Achieving…

Remote work offers incredible flexibility, but can also present unique challenges, especially in hiring. 

Imagine discovering that a seemingly legitimate remote employee, hired through your standard process, was actually an operative stealing your company’s confidential data.

It sounds like science fiction, but according to recent FBI alerts, it’s a real and growing threat.

Understanding the Threat

The FBI warns that…

According to a recent report, UnitedHealth Group has removed much of its website content related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). UnitedHealth’s spokesperson, Tyler Mason, stated that the company complies with existing laws while still trying to support the communities they serve with “a collaborative environment where we treat each other with mutual respect.”
Clicking on UnitedHealthcare webpages that previously…

Why Small Business Owners Should Not Handle EEOC Charges Without Legal Representation
At The Wannos Law Firm, we’ve recently seen a troubling trend: small business owners attempting to represent themselves during the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) process—often without fully understanding the risks involved. While self-representation may seem like a way to save time or money, it can end up…

Introduction
One unexpected payroll error can cost a manufacturing operation tens of thousands of dollars—long before anyone even notices a number on the balance sheet. When front-line supervisors tweak shift differentials by hand or when entrenched “legacy” pay rates go unreviewed, hidden disparities start to multiply. That’s where equal pay audits come in: a proactive, systematic review of everything from…

Littler, a law firm focusing on labor, recently published a study showing that only about eight percent of leading American companies have or intend to alter their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. The Littler study involved about 350 C-suite executives. Despite a few high-profile defections of major companies from DEI, most companies have been slow to consider any meaningful…

Companies are increasingly embracing return-to-office (RTO) mandates, but new SHRM research and data reveal an unexpected consequence of those mandates. The incidence of uncivil acts occurring in the workplace is substantially higher for employees whose employers have issued RTO mandates. According to the SHRM Q1 2025 Civility Index, employees at companies with RTO mandates reported 63% more acts of workplace…