Walcheske & Luzi Employment Law Blog
Walcheske & Luzi, LLC Adds Prominent ERISA Professor as Partner
BROOKFIELD – Walcheske & Luzi, LLC is proud to announce the addition of prominent, former law school ERISA professor, Paul M. Secunda, as a Partner with the firm. With Secunda’s hiring, Walcheske & Luzi is now the first Wisconsin labor and employment law firm...
Emergency FMLA and Paid Sick Leave
The Emergency Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act and the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act: What You Need to Know Yesterday, President Trump signed both bills into law. This means that both laws will go into effect in 15 days, or on April 2, 2020. Employers need to...

Coronavirus and the Workplace FAQs:
Let’s be real. With the Coronavirus in the news everyday, these are crazy times we’re living in and there is a lot of uncertainty, including the potential impacts we may all experience or are already experiencing in our lives. Work is an incredibly big part of that...
Walcheske & Luzi Named in 2020 “Best Law Firms” Report
It has been a busy year for the attorneys at Walcheske & Luzi, LLC, who have received a number of honors and accolades from peers and publications within the legal profession. First and foremost, Walcheske & Luzi, LLC was named to the 2020 “Best Law Firms” by...
Use It or Lose It: Employers Must Timely Raise or Waive Procedural Objections in Federal Court
On June 2, 2019, the United States Supreme Court ruled that a plaintiff’s EEOC filing requirement is procedural, not jurisdictional and that if an employer does not raise a procedural objection in a timely fashion, that objection in waived. In Fort Bend County, Texas...
Unreasonable Refusal to Rehire
Picture this: an employee tweaks his back at work. He goes to Human Resources like he’s always been told to do and tells HR that he hurt himself. HR sends the employee to see a doctor and when he returns the next day, he’s pulled into a meeting and told that he’s...
Walcheske & Luzi, LLC Attorneys Again Named Rising Stars
Walcheske & Luzi announced today that two of its attorneys were recently honored by Super Lawyers as Rising Stars in Employment Law. This is the seventh year in a row James Walcheske and Scott Luzi have been recognized by Super Lawyers as Rising Stars. Super...
What Is Wrongful Termination
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...
Still Trending Boomerang Employees
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...
FAQ: Are Non-Compete Agreements Enforceable in Wisconsin
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:...
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