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The Minnesota Supreme Court just issued a decision finding that under Minnesota state law, all hours worked over 48 hours in a week must be compensated at time and a half, regardless of how the ...
Even as the deadline looms for employers of 100 or more workers to submit 2017 and 2018 pay data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the EEOC has announced that they do not intend ...
We wrote some time ago (In Some Cases Even a Single Word Can Create a Hostile Environment) of a trend in the federal courts to rule that even a single use of the N-word can ...
Employers with unionized work forces will have an easier time claiming that their unilateral actions are allowed under the language of their collective bargaining agreements, in a significant decision released Tuesday that aligns the National ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just ruled that it is not an unfair labor practice to misclassify a worker as an independent contractor. Jeannie Edge began driving for Velox, a company that picks ...
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Minnesota) has just reminded us that under the right circumstances, the ability to work overtime can be an essential job function that need not be accommodated. Tasha ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that could have a major impact on how union elections are conducted. Blocking Charges and Elections Under current law, the NLRB ...
A federal appeals court recently ruled against an employer who counted FMLA absences against employees regarding a perfect-attendance benefit even though sick leave and other absences were treated the same. Jerremy Dyer worked as a ...
