On April 10, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited en banc decision in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ford Motor Company following a vacated panel decision from April 2014 in which a divided panel had reversed a district court’s...
As if the administrative burden of the new DC Wage Theft law notice requirement was not enough, we have learned that the Department of Employment Services (DOES), without much fanfare, has begun a program of knocking on employers’ doors, unannounced, and asking...
On the day the National Labor Relations Board’s contentious “ambush” election rule took effect, members of the House and Senate introduced bills to preserve elements of the previous and long-standing representation election process. The...
Reversing a district court decision, and declining to follow decisions from a number of other courts, including the Fourth and Fifth Circuits, the Ninth Circuit has deferred to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) “flip-flopped” view of whether the...
On March 18, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on a motion to dismiss in a case that will have potentially serious consequences for D.C. employers that include written whistleblower and other anti-retaliation policies in their employee...
