I recently had an interesting call with a DOL investigator, and I wanted to share it with you.First, let me set the background. I represent a large national employer with multi-state locations, including several on the east coast. One of these east coast locations...
This should have been an open-and-shut case. For the employer, that is, not the employee.Lufkin Industries, Inc., had an employee, William Fisher, who was a 55-year-old African-American. One day, Mr. Fisher got into a verbal tiff with his 31-year-old white supervisor,...
President Trump announced today that he intends to nominate R. Alexander Acosta as the Secretary of Labor. Mr. Trump’s initial nominee for the position, Andrew Puzder, withdrew his candidacy yesterday.Mr. Acosta, a Florida native and the son of Cuban immigrants,...
Late yesterday, news broke that Andy Puzder, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor, had withdrawn his name from consideration, just one day before his oft-postponed confirmation hearing was to take place. Like Trump’s immigration ban, opposing...
Are we getting a mixed message from the new administration on priorities in the civil rights area?In her first public comments since her appointment as the new acting chair of the EEOC, Victoria Lipnic just last week (February 8) said that the agency will not be...
