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Believe it or not, the Minnesota Supreme Court recently explained that a Minnesota employer may be required to knowingly violate federal immigration law by employing an undocumented worker in order to avoid liability under state ...
We assumed that the Trump administration would eventually return to the issue of the proper salary threshold for overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. That time has come as the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) ...
In a somewhat surprising and disturbing decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that even a single one-word racial epithet can create a viable hostile work environment harassment claim. Two African American laborers sued staffing agency ...
Here’s a first – a federal appeals court has allowed an employee to sue his employer’s attorney for arranging to have immigration officials come to the employee’s deposition to take him into custody for deportation. José Arnulfo Arias, ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had no beef with the termination of employees who put up negative posters about their employer during a union organizing campaign. In MikLin Enterprises, Inc., employees at ten Twin Cities’ Jimmy John’s sandwich-shop ...
As Minneapolis employers focused on initiating compliance with the city’s new sick leave ordinance, the Minneapolis City Council quietly approved yet another far-reaching regulation, namely the new $15.00 minimum wage for all workers within the city limits. Minneapolis joins ...
Minneapolis and St. Paul Sick Leave Ordinances go into effect on July 1st and require a variety of actions, including revision of employee handbooks to provide notice of employee rights. Are you ready for these ...
What happens when you tell a 63 year-old employee that he won’t get the newly created promotion and will be laid off because the company wants a new face? Nothing, according to the Eighth Circuit ...
