South Carolina law may protect nurses from termination when they report patient safety concerns or fulfill duties required by the Nurse Practice Act.

If you were wrongfully terminated, the biggest part of your case is usually money you lost by not working. Lost wages, often called back pay, can add up quickly. What surprises most employees is that the law does not let you simply wait for that number to grow. You have a legal duty to look for new work, and if you ignore it, your employer will use that against you. Lawyers call this the duty to mitigate damages. In plain terms, it means you must make reasonable efforts to fi

Over the last two years, I have noticed a shift in the emails and documents I receive from potential clients. More and more employees are turning to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and similar tools to help them draft complaints to HR, demand letters to their employers, and even the first emails they send to my office. I understand the appeal. These tools are fast, articulate, and free or nearly free. But if you are considering pursuing a claim against your employer, you need to und

In our last post, we covered the basics of the PUMP Act, the federal law that guarantees nursing employees break time and a private space to pump at work. This post digs into the question we hear most often: what does private actually mean? The statute answers it directly. The space must be somewhere other than a bathroom, it must be shielded from view, and it must be free from intrusion from coworkers and the public. Those two phrases, shielded from view and free from intrus

If you are a new mother returning to work and you need to pump breast milk during the workday, federal law is on your side. The PUMP for Nursing Mothers Act, signed into law in December 2022, strengthened a protection that has existed in some form since 2010. In plain terms, the law requires employers to give nursing employees reasonable break time to express breast milk, as often as the employee needs to, for up to one year after the child's birth. Just as importantly, the e