Blog Posts in November, 2012

On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument concerning a seemingly easy question – Who’s is a supervisor? However, the Court’s decision in Vance v. Ball State University is likely to have a ...

A new lawsuit alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”), including the failure to pay required overtime compensation has been filed by two Charlotte bankers. The wage and hour ...

Your employer cannot automatically fire you once you have used up your leave, a U.S. District Court in Colorado has determined. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just settled a ...

The California legislature has passed a bill that seeks to extend overtime pay protections – such as those contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) – to state farm workers. If passed, these ...

Can leave be considered a “reasonable accommodation”? At a recent labor and employment conference, an employers’ duty toward workers with injuries was discussed. Calling the “American with ...

Although many people traditionally think of sex discrimination or sexual harassment cases as those that involve a woman receiving unfavorable treatment at work or being subjected to unwanted advances ...