A former employee who worked in the risk management and internal audit department at a data management company may have become a security risk herself after she reported losing a USB flash drive containing thousands of sensitive documents.

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A Florida-based private equity firm that bought the iconic Friendly’s restaurant chain in 2007 and managed it straight into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by 2011 used a common industry practice to buy back the assets of the business for a bargain ...

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One of New England’s largest law firms has suffered a significant, and potentially costly, defeat at the hands of a federal judge.

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Lawsuits challenging the validity of President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to two major federal agencies have cast a cloud of uncertainty over opinions and regulations being handed down and could result in years of additional litigation that will harm American ...

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Fueled in part by an increase in age and disability discrimination claims, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received a record-high 99,947 charges of employment discrimination in fiscal 2011, the agency has announced. The EEOC obtained more than $455 million in ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice has ruled that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Labor Relations Board were legal. The president made the appointments despite efforts by Republican lawmakers to block recess appointments ...

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has formed a task force to help small businesses comply with anti-discrimination laws. The Small Business Task Force, headed by EEOC Commissioner Constance S. Barker, will develop ways to reach out to newly established small ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that the First Amendment’s ministerial exception bars job-bias suits against religion-based employers will likely have an impact far beyond discrimination claims.

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A start-up company could enforce a non-compete agreement against a former vice president who went to work for a competitor developing products in the same industry, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled.

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You’ve been at your current in-house position for some time. When you took the job, or perhaps sometime during your employment, you were required to sign a variety of restrictive covenants that included at least one of the following: a ...

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