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The Minnesota Supreme Court just made it easier to be a whistleblower in Minnesota by ruling that making a “good faith” report of an impropriety does not require that the employee actually be motivated by the intent ...
An employee suffered a severe injury from driving a nail through his head but it was the employer who got hammered for disability discrimination. Biagio Stragapede, a water worker for the City of Evanston, Illinois, suffered a ...
While various states and municipalities now deem it lawful to use marijuana for medical purposes, the federal law banning possession and use of marijuana remains unchanged. For this reason, state and federal courts continue to ...
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 ...
