by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | May 18, 2020 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Mar 19, 2020 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Mar 13, 2020 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Nov 18, 2019 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Jun 13, 2019 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Apr 1, 2019 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Mar 16, 2019 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Feb 4, 2019 | Wisconsin 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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Jan 10, 2019 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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...
by Walcheske & Luzi, LLC | Dec 26, 2018 | Wisconsin Employment Law Blog
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:...
