Author: Alex Maultsby

Canterbury School Welcomes New Leader

Our client Canterbury School here in Greensboro has welcomed its next Head of School, Harrison Stuart as of July 1.  Read about Harrison here. We are happy for Canterbury to have found such an outstanding leader, with vision and commitment to childhood education.  Great things to come!

The $125 Million Per Hour Accommodation

A Wisconsin jury did not like that WalMart discharged an employee with Down syndrome after she was unable to adjust to a one-hour shift change.  For the giant retailer, there was no everyday low price for its mistake–the jury charged a whopping $125 million verdict. The case is actually quite interesting.  It pits the needs […]

Revisiting, . . . Patti Ramseur!

Can I say again how remarkable it is for my partner Patti to be one of the Top Ten lawyers in North Carolina in the latest rankings by SuperLawyers?!?  Can I talk about some numbers?  There are over 28,000 people licensed to practice law in NC.  Top Ten of them. If you had more than […]

New Prez (After All That)

What mattered most for employment law last week was The Inauguration.  Well, not the ceremony itself, but what the change means for HR. In keeping with our blog’s promise, we want to focus on one single topic that last week made more important:  what The National Labor Relations Act does and means. So, let’s skip […]

Legal Elite and Super Lawyers

Patti was AGAIN  named one of the Top Ten lawyers in North Carolina by SuperLawyers Magazine, across all practice areas and all cities.  What an honor!  In addition, Patti and Alex were both named to Business North Carolina‘s “Legal Elite,” based on polling of the state’s lawyers.  For Legal Elite, that makes 15 years for Alex […]

What Now for Covid Pay?

“What really mattered last week?” we like to ask here at Ramseur Maultsby, LLP. We could pick between competing disappointing results for Patti and for me.  Or, we could choose the thrill of putting 2020 in the rear-view mirror.  Instead, we will stay on topic: employment law. Last week, veto threats and overrides finally ended with […]

Fort Hood Report Offers a Peak Behind a Curtain

Enough of COVID as “what really mattered” last week.  For sure we will get back to that soon enough. Now, though, let’s go in another direction, to a problem about human behavior: sexual harassment.  Last week the government decided to release a report of an investigation into sexual assault and sexual harassment at Fort Hood […]

EEOC Guidance on Mandatory COVID Vaccines

Shoutouts to the EEOC?!?  Hey, it’s 2020. The vaccine is newly available in some quarters, plans for distribution are sketchy, employers are beginning to consider whether to insist that employees get shots, and the EEOC is already giving “Guidance” that truly does help explain the tangle of legal considerations.  The Commission has placed the material […]

What Really Mattered–MASKS!!

This week’s installation of What Really Mattered reminds us that, yes, the thing that really mattered last week was the renewed focus on mask-wearing as the pandemic surges and Thanksgiving beckons.  Specifically, here in North Carolina, Governor Cooper ramped up the stakes with an Executive  Order issued Monday.  The Order revises previous ones related to […]