Court says no, in one of the weirdest cases ever. In January, I blogged about the very strange case of O’Brien v. Industrial Service Solutions. The plaintiff was a Human Resources Manager who saw a transgender woman in the dressing room while she was...
In what appears to be a first, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has weighed in on the status of gig economy workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the form of an opinion letter. The DOL concluded that the workers reviewed in the letter are independent...
Andy, the Director of Human Resources at one of my clients, called me last week. He was pretty distraught.One of his employees, we’ll call him Tom, has been battling lung cancer, and he recently learned that the cancer has advanced to stage four. It’s clear...
