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Labor Letter - July 2012

In This Issue: - “Here’s Looking At You, Kid” - The EEOC Looks For Beauty Bias By James J. McDonald, Jr. (Irvine) - The EEOC is currently investigating Marylou’s Coffee, a chain of Massachusetts coffee shops, for...more

Frederick Place Chambers Employment Law Newsletter

This is the first newsletter published by Frederick Place Chambers. It is intended that this should be a monthly publication, with the aim of keeping clients and fellow professionals up to date with recent developments in...more

Brenda Brown v Wolin & Levin, Inc. and Robert Levin

FLSA/FMLA, W.C. Retaliatory Discharge, and much more!

This complaint against a prominent Chicago Property Management Firm involves everything from Illinois Minimum Wage Law violations, to what is now known as "wage theft," i.e. the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. It...more

Blurring the Lines Between Workers' Compensation Retaliation and Disability Discrimination

A new trend in Kentucky has recently emerged where plaintiffs are attempting to base their workers' compensation claims on evidence that their employers allegedly mistreated them while they were on light duty or exercising...more

Worker Recovers Lost Wages and 4-Yr College Degree

Based in part on testimony provided by the retraining specialist and our client’s earlier transcripts from Joliet Junior College showing she already had 55 semester credits, the arbitrator agreed that she was, in fact, an...more