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For the first time, a federal appellate court has acknowledged its obligation to give a "fair reading" to all Fair Labor Standards Act overtime exemptions, as the U.S. Supreme Court stated in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, 138 S. Ct. 1134 .
While the Connecticut Department of Labor reported strong job growth Thursday, some economic observers worry that jobs could leave the state. Where those jobs would go is a point of disagreement.
Since that time, the country elected a new president who has installed an administration that is focused on starkly different priorities than those of the prior administration. Not only that, but the past 18 months have also seen intense interest and awareness of sexual harassment with the rise of the #MeToo movement and nightly news accounts of sexual misconduct in the workplace.
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California's Supreme Court ruled that employers must pay workers for the time they spend completing off-the-clock tasks, such as locking up after work. The decision, issued this week, marks a win for labor advocates who say requiring hourly workers to spend minutes doing unpaid tasks amounts to wage theft.
The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to rule on whether existing civil rights law banning sex discrimination covers discrimination based on gender identity. A Michigan funeral home operator, represented by the anti-LGBT Alliance Defending Freedom, has asked the high court to review an appeals court's decision that its firing of a transgender employee violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title VII bans sex discrimination.
This undated photo provided by Gordon Thomas Honeywell, LLP shows Sharon Struthers, left, and her daughter, Lisa Bowser. Bowser is suing Western State Hospital in Washington state, saying her mother was abused and neglected at the mental health facility.
President Donald Trump talks to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Feb. 14, 2017, at the White House. Trump's administration will propose mergin the Education Department with the Department of Labor.
While those efforts have made enormous strides, nothing moves America like money. That raises the question: How much does sexual harassment cost? What is the economic impact to the workplace of men who impose their warped notions of sexual superiority on female colleagues? Harvey Weinstein isn't available to answer those questions, so a group of Democratic senators asked the Labor Department.
A new report , originally ordered by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts and released by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts , exposes a number of sexual harassment issues and general incivility inside the U.S. Court system. "On December 20, 2017, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., asked the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to establish a working group to examine the sufficiency of the safeguards currently in place within the Judiciary to protect all court employees from inappropriate conduct in the workplace," the report states.
Toppling like trees in a hurricane, many male executives in entertainment, media and other industries have been felled by allegations of sexual harassment. The hashtag #MeToo has raised awareness about the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, sparking a growing movement in the U.S. and abroad.
When news broke of employees at the Department of Veteran Affairs putting the lives of veterans at risk with waiting lists to die, the country was outraged.
They have to pay fair wages, too, and get called out publicly when they don't. A New York federal court has firmly rejected a request by hip hop recording singer and producer Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr. - better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes - and other parties that a "celebrity exception" be created in relation to the publicity requirements for wage and hour workplace dispute settlements.
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that businesses can prohibit their workers from banding together in disputes over pay and conditions in the workplace, a decision that affects an estimated 25 million non-unionized employees. With the court's five conservative members in the majority, the justices held that individual employees can be forced to use arbitration, not the courts, to air complaints about wages and overtime.
With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Tom Wolf ended-for now-the annual effort to "change the way medical treatment is administered under the workers' compensation system" by vetoing Senate Bill 936. Over the last few years, the Republican-controlled legislature has been trying to pass various pieces of legislation targeting health care under the Workers' Compensation Act.
A federal appeals court held Thursday that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 applies to outside job applicants as well as current employees, in a ruling that disagrees with another circuit court on the issue. "We hold that protects both outside job applicants and current employees," said the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in a 2-1 ruling in Dale E. Kleber v.
U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled Wednesday that UberBLACK drivers are independent contractors, rather than actual employees of the ride share company, and granted Uber summary judgment dismissing the case. According to Baylson, the ruling in Razak v.
The nationwide vacatur of the Department of Labor "investment advice" fiduciary definition and related exemptions by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on March 15, 2018, does not bring an end to the challenges created by this extraordinary rulemaking. Both plan providers and plan sponsors will face significant responsibilities in unwinding the programs they had put in place to comply with the Final Rule-if the vacatur stands-and reinstating the predecessor ERISA regulation in their compliance programs, which apparently is to coincide with an uptick in "best interest" rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission and among the states.
U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty announced on Monday she will not seek re-election this year amid calls for her resignation over her handling of the firing of a former chief of staff accused of harassment, threats and violence against female staffers in her congressional office. Esty, a Democrat from Connecticut and an outspoken #MeToo advocate, made the announcement not to seek a fourth term in the November election days after apologizing for not protecting her employees from the male ex-chief of staff.