On June 11, 2013, New York City will join New Jersey, Oregon and Washington D.C. as one of the few jurisdictions with legislation prohibiting discrimination against unemployed job applicants. Passed by the New York City...more
4/11/2013 - Discrimination Hiring & Firing Job Applicants Local Ordinance Municipalities Unemployment Discrimination
A federal appeals court recently made it substantially easier for plaintiffs to assert claims that they were fired for "whistleblowing" activity protected by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ("SOX"). In Wiest v. Lynch, 2013 WL 1111784...more
4/8/2013 - Misrepresentation Publicly-Traded Companies Sarbanes-Oxley Shareholders Whistleblower Protection Policies Whistleblowers Wiest v Lynch
The proliferation of smartphones and personal digital assistants has afforded many American workers the ability — for good or ill - to stay connected to their work when they are not actually in the workplace. This allows...more
9/10/2012 - FLSA Over-Time Smartphones T-Mobile
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