Once an employer agrees to a Consent Decree with the EEOC (and a court enters the decree), that EEOC dispute is over, right? Oh no. The Consent Decree gives the EEOC a new enforcement tool; with any new act of discrimination that also violates the decree,...
Purple Communications, Inc. 361 NLRB No. 126 (2014)The National Labor Relations Board, by a 3-2 vote, overruled the Board’s decision in Register Guard, 351 NLRB 1110 (2007) and ruled that “employee use of e-mail for statutorily protected communications on nonworking...
An Arizona employer recently learned a costly lesson under the FLSA. Alzate v. Creative Man Painting Three employees sued their employer for a variety of FLSA violations and other claims. The employer, through its attorney, repeatedly tried to settle the case from its...
On March 5, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a Final Rule implementing protections for employees of securities companies and their subsidiaries, as well as employees of national credit-rating agencies. The Final Rule protects employees of public...
The District of Columbia’s Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act of 2008 (ASSLA), which requires employers to provide paid leave to employees for their own or a family member’s illness as well as in certain other situations, was amended by the Council of the District of...
