Walcheske & Luzi Employment Law Blog

When a termination is handled poorly or when an individual feels that a termination was unfair, unjustified, etc. (but not necessarily unlawful), four words often follow: “I was wrongfully terminated.”  Beyond being a general descriptor for a termination, “wrongful...

Historically, employees who quit a job to work for a competitor company were no longer welcome to return to the original employer. A simple Google search of the term “boomerang employees” will quickly reveal that forward thinking companies, adapting to a still slowly...

We continue to see an uptick in questions and searches on this topic, so we wanted to take some time to answer the question that always comes up: “Are non-compete agreements enforceable in the State of Wisconsin?” Queue the lawyer talk eye roll because the answer is:...

If you read our last blog on Worker’s Compensation, we’re sure that you have an inkling that the meaning of the term “Non-scheduled Injury” in the legal sense is vastly different from the everyday sense. But, as you know, and as only Mandy Patinkin in “The Princess...

What does Donald Trump have in common with the EEOC? Not a question you might anticipate reading, huh? Well, the answer is that each has taken time to remind employers about national origin discrimination. For Donald Trump, this comes through the firestorm raised over...

Regardless of whether you’ve ever heard the term “Scheduled Injury,” particularly if you were the one who suffered that injury, we’re confident that you did not look at your calendar and decide that a certain date was juuuuuuuust right to pencil in a workplace injury....

I am sure most of you have stayed up late at night watching a Brewers/Bucks/Packers/Badgers/Golden Eagles game and seen celebrities espousing the wonderful service of a local law firm. Or maybe you are lucky enough to have memorized one of the rhyming catchphrases...

Today, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rendered two landscape-altering* decisions (*in my world). First, it held in Wisconsin DWD v. Wisconsin LIRC and Beres that if an employee violates an employer’s written absenteeism policy, that employee engages in “misconduct” and...

"When Matthew Tobin was a young child, he said he was taught to be a man for others. The Wauwatosa native went to St. Bernard Catholic School and graduated from Marquette University High School. “If you’re not in some part of your life living for others, you’re not...

Unless you’ve recently had an employee request Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, you may not have noticed that the Department of Labor’s (DOL) FMLA forms expired on June 1, 2018. What does this mean, you curiously ask? THE FMLA IS DEAD! WE’RE GOING...