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Five Evolving Issues Confronting Employers in the Hospitality Industry

by Jeffrey Ruzal in Human Resources, Legal. Posted October 14, 2015

As the hospitality industry continues to grow and expand, one common goal is to provide all-inclusive experiences for visitors and patrons. Unfortunately, given the breadth of the goods and services offered to the public and the workforce employed to supply these experiences, the hospitality industry is also providing plaintiffs’ attorneys and government regulators with their ...

Amtrak says to suspend national rail service without safety extension: letter

by Thomson Reuters in Legal, Technology, Travel. Posted October 8, 2015

Amtrak has told U.S. lawmakers that it will suspend service on its national network in mid-December unless Congress extends a Dec. 31 deadline for implementing advanced safety technology, according to an Oct. 5 letter from Amtrak reviewed by Reuters. The letter, addressed to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, says service ...

A Guest, Tenant or Transient Guest…that is the question!

by Stephen Barth in Legal. Posted October 1, 2015

In the lodging area, a guest can be classified as being either a transient guest i.e., a customer who rents property for a relatively short period of time with no intent of establishing permanent residency, or a tenant who rents real property for an extended period of time with the intent of establishing permanent residency. ...

Long Term Hotel Guests Might Not Be So Easy to Remove

by Eckert Seamans in Legal. Posted September 28, 2015

co-authored by Sandy Garfinkel and Eric J. Zagrocki Hotel owners and operators may be surprised to learn that that under many states’ laws, hotel guests who stay for lengthy amounts of time may be deemed to have become tenants rather than hotel guests. These hotel companies may be in for a surprise if it ever becomes necessary to ...

When does your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job?

by Eugene Volokh in Human Resources, Legal. Posted September 11, 2015

Can your religion legally excuse you from doing part of your job? This is one of the questions in the Kentucky County Clerk marriage certificate case. But it also arises in lots of other cases — for instance, the Muslim flight attendant who doesn’t want to serve alcohol and who filed a complaint on Tuesday ...

Too Many Law Students, Too Few Legal Jobs

by Stephen Harper in Legal. Posted August 25, 2015

Ten months after graduation, only 60 percent of the law school class of 2014 had found full-time long-term jobs that required them to pass the bar exam. Even that improvement over the class of 2013 (a 57 percent employment rate) came with three asterisks: Last year, the American Bar Association changed the job-reporting rules to ...

Whatabattle!

by Loren Steffy in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted August 24, 2015

Two summers ago, with the South Texas sun beating down, a group of civic leaders gathered in front of the Whataburger on Main Street in Alice to unveil a bust of the late Joe Andrews Sr. The likeness of Andrews, wearing a cowboy hat and mounted on a limestone pedestal, was commissioned to mark the ...

Drafting Agreements to Avoid Picking the Wrong Arbitration Forum

by Charles Forer in Legal. Posted August 17, 2015

Editor’s note: This article describes a hypothetical situation. Bob has studied the rules of various arbitration providers. He knows an effective advocate chooses the arbitration forum that offers the rules best suited for the particular controversy. So, for instance, “If you want depositions, why not pick an arbitration forum whose rules expressly allow depositions?” Always ...

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