Blog Posts in April, 2014

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Overtime Compensation And Sleeping On The Job April 30, 2014
A recent overtime lawsuit raised an interesting question – what employment laws apply when workers are required to “sleep on the job”? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides workers many ...
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Is Your Physical Presence at Work an Essential Job Function? April 30, 2014
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) protect certain qualified individuals with disabilities from discrimination at work. This means ...
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Example of the Minority Squeeze Out in Action April 28, 2014
The following is a ruling I received from the Georgia Court of Appeals regarding a classic minority squeeze out scenario. I have included this Order because it provides a very useful summary of all ...
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Your Employer Must Pay You What You Deserve: Consenting to "not" be paid overtime wages violates FLSA April 25, 2014
A recent wage and hour lawsuit underscored an important point – if you are a non-exempt employee and you work overtime, you must be paid overtime pay at one and one half times your standard rate of ...
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Derogatory Comments By Manager Could Be Grounds For Claim of Retaliation April 22, 2014
A recent case evaluated whether alleged comments by a white human resources manager could be used as evidence to support a claim for retaliation. In Willis v. Cleco Corp ., a black worker – Gregory ...
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Minority Shareholders: Their Rights and the Problems They Face April 22, 2014
INTRODUCTION TO THE "SQUEEZE-OUT" In many small companies the individual or group who own the majority of stock shares may try to remove the minority shareholder from the company or reduce their ...
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