Blog Posts in February, 2017

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency which tracks work place violations, such as employment discrimination, has recently its 2016 employment statistics. ...

A House subcommittee of the United States Congress met last week to discuss future wage and hour policies. Much of the discussion will focus on the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), which was enacted in ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently featured Omar Butcher, our client, in a story that talked about his time at CNN and his struggle to receive the same opportunities as his colleagues. As a ...

In mid-January, Philadelphia became the first city to pass a wage discrimination law. Hopefully, this will lead to similar actions by cities and states around the country, including Atlanta and ...

A little more than 50 years ago, Congress passed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination in the workplace. The law prohibits discrimination against ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") covers the majority of workers in the United States and provides that workers are entitled to earn at least minimum wage and for those non-exempt workers, ...