Prior to running employment background checks, employers must follow strict rules, or risk liability for noncompliance. Agencies contracted by employers to provide information on an applicant or employee also have legal duties when collecting, keeping, and providing...

With an ever-increasing amount of corporate layoffs and reorganizations forcing employees out of their jobs, employers often offer “severance” or termination packages to departing employees providing pay or other benefits upon termination in exchange for certain...

In Florida, an employment relationship can be terminated “at will.” This means that an employer can fire the employee, or the employee can walk away from the job, whenever they wish, for any reason or no reason at all. This applies unless there is a valid employment...

Since January 2009 to November 2015, the United States Justice Department has recovered a total of more than $26.5 billion through False Claims Act cases, with more than $16.7 billion of that amount recovered in cases involving fraud against federal health care...

Whistleblower laws protect individuals who report wrongful conduct from retaliation by the wrongdoer, often an employer.  Other blog articles on our page cover whistleblower laws in general, extending to protections afforded under The Whistleblower Protection Act of...