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Hollywood often gains inspiration from real life situations but how often does real life mirror classic scenes from the movies? That happened recently when a federal appeals court invoked the iconic cross-examination scene from “My ...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just decided in United Nurses & Allied Professionals (Kent Hospital) and Jeanette Geary that unions may not use non-member funds for political lobbying efforts. This will likely impact ...
Employers may need to start gearing up to submit pay and hours worked data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) following a significant ruling by a federal court judge in D.C. The Obama administration ...
As we predicted yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has now officially proposed a rule to increase the minimum salary that needs to be paid to an exempt executive, administrative, or professional employee to ...
Stories are circulating that the US Department of Labor (DOL) is set to unveil their new salary threshold for exemption from overtime. The proposal is said to establish $35,000 as the amount of annual salary ...
A divided Minnesota Court of Appeals just ruled that Minneapolis’ $15 minimum wage is not preempted by state law. Graco, the employer challenging the ordinance, argued that Minnesota’s state minimum wage ($9.86 per hour for ...
The Minnesota Supreme Court just overruled 30 years of precedent that almost certainly will lead to more disability discrimination cases filed against Minnesota employers. Minneapolis firefighter Keith Daniel injured his ankle during an on-duty rescue. ...
A recent federal court decision was a textbook example of why, when the same supervisor hires and fires a worker within a relatively short time frame, that worker is going to have a hard time ...
