Employment Law

Most companies have policies in place to promote a healthy working environment and prevent sexual harassment. But what happens when that policy is just words on a page? Many worker protections do not apply to businesses with less than 12 or so employees, and...

Almost everyone has been in a work situation that wasn't fair. Whether you didn't get a raise or promotion that you deserved, someone else got one who didn't deserve it or got it based on work you did. Maybe you got a raise or promotion that you didn't deserve, or got...

A former Mingo County deputy clerk claims Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury slandered her and had her fired. Candace Harper worked for Thornsbury and is also his niece.Harper says that while employed at the Mingo County Circuit Clerk's office and the Mingo County...

A new law signed into effect at the end of March requires mandatory drug test reporting by employers. This means anyone who fails a drug test and works in a safety-sensitive mining position will have their drug test results forwarded to the West Virginia Office of...

This legislative session, West Virginia lawmakers passed a new piece of legislation ensuring that pregnant employees in West Virginia can expect to receive reasonable accommodations by their employer to ensure they can remain at work as long as they choose before...

This past legislative session, West Virginia passed a new law raising the minimum wage for hourly workers. Effective January 1, 2015, the West Virginia minimum wage will increase from $7.25 per hour to $8 per hour, and then again to $8.75 per hour in 2016. In...

Whether you are reporting harassment, in a legal dispute with your employer or boss, or made a report that got your company in trouble, employers are not allowed to retaliate against their employees for reporting ethical violations or other wrongdoings within the...

Deployment has been an all-too-common occurrence in the past 10 years. Not only deployment, but redeployment. As hard as that is on a soldier's family, finances and mental state, they may also worried about losing their job or being replaced at work.Employers cannot...

A lawsuit filed against West Virginia University claims that the school hasn't been transparent regarding the investigation of the chairman of WVU's Department of Neurosurgery.The suit started with a claim of harassment and misconduct by Elizabeth Baldwin, a former...

A 2012 study by Careerbuilder showed that 35 percent of workers felt bullied, and that 17 percent of these workers actually quit their jobs to get away from the bullying.You may not consider being gossiped about bullying, but depending on the level and severity of the...