Blog Posts in February, 2012

A recent racial harassment case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, Vance v. Ball State University , raises a significant question, “Who is a supervisor?” Determining whether a someone at work is a ...

A recent case out of Michigan has determined that a man may proceed to trial on the question of whether he was entitled to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to help his sister to ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is one of the oldest federal labor laws and provides many protections for workers. Among these are guaranteed that workers receive minimum wage and that non-exempt ...

New reports that hotel food and beverage workers have reached a settlement unpaid wage claim . 150 current and former food and beverage workers sued the Crowne Plaza Hotel for its failure to reimburse ...

A recent case upheld a $417,955 jury verdict award in a sex discrimination retaliation case. In Lore v. Syracuse , a female police officer – Therese Lore – filed a sex discrimination case claim after ...

Recently, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an Atlanta district court made three crucial errors when it rejected an HIV-positive claim of disability discrimination against the Atlanta ...