Employment and labor Lawyer
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor
In a case that started out as a dispute over whether the plaintiffs were exempt under the administrative exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...
See Full GuideI routinely tell clients not to email me from their workplace and to always use private email and this recent case out of a court of appeals in California illustrates exactly why. Plaintiff Gina Holmes...
See Full GuideA: Not necessarily.As an attorney who has handled over 100 unemployment compensation hearings, the most common issue I deal with is whether a claimant was "discharged for misconduct connected with empl...
See Full GuideLaura Bassett has a very disturbing article on the Huffington Post about how employers and staffing agencies are getting around labor and anti-discrimination laws and the difficulty in proving it--unle...
See Full GuideA district court in New York held that an employer who accessed two former employees' personal email accounts during an investigation after the employees quit are liable for damages under the federal S...
See Full GuideMany people, including many employment attorneys, are unaware that Section 525 of the Bankruptcy Code provides individuals with protection from discriminatory treatment as a result of having filed for ...
See Full GuideThree former assistant prosecutors in the States Attorney Office in Cook County, Illinois were terminated in 2007 and then filed age discrimination suits under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ...
See Full GuideAs an attorney who primarily focuses on employment matters, I often find myself in a situation where I am either talking with a potential client or employer's counsel about the merits of a case and it ...
See Full GuideThe Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit delivered quite the present to plaintiff's attorneys this year in its ruling in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Autozone, Inc., No. 10-1353. The ...
See Full GuideThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a very short article about an emergency room doctor, David Merritt, at Black River Memorial Hospital in western Wisconsin who was terminated after he told hospital of...
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