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Legal Alert: Fast Food Walkouts May Be Just Beginning

by Alec Beck | FordHarrison on 5/14/2013

The well-publicized citywide fast food walkout in New York City on April 4, followed by another in Chicago on April 24, appear to be just the beginning of efforts to pressure fast food restaurants into paying higher wages....more

San Jose Minimum Wage is Now $10.00 Per Hour

by Betsy Johnson | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 4/29/2013

On November 6, 2012, the City of San Jose approved a Minimum Wage Ordinance (MWO) that became effective on March 11, 2013. Under the MWO, the minimum wage for “covered employees” working within the city limits of San Jose...more

Philly Security Guards Protest Wage Theft by Employer

by Aaron Kase | Lawyers.com on 4/16/2013

Five protestors were arrested last week in Philadelphia for blocking traffic in an effort to call attention to a crime that is a menace to hourly workers nationwide: wage theft....more

Employment And Labor Law Alert - It's Official: Michigan's "Right-To-Work" Law Takes Effect

by Jonathan Naples, Matthew Tews | Leonard, Street and Deinard on 4/4/2013

On March 28, 2013, Michigan's "right-to-work" law, the Workplace Fairness and Equity Act, went into effect. The law prohibits any requirement that an employee pay union dues or join a union as a condition of employment. The...more

Communicating With the Workforce — A Very Good Idea, But Proceed With Caution

by Richard Albert | Foley & Lardner LLP on 3/27/2013

Most employers communicate with their workforce about a wide variety of employment related issues — personnel policies, wage and benefit issues, organizational changes, etc. These communications — whether verbal or in writing...more

2013 US Labor and Employment Horizon

by K&L Gates LLP on 3/12/2013

Overview - As a resource to our clients, the Labor, Employment and Workplace Safety team at K&L Gates has summarized major legislative changes and key cases affecting employers in 2013 in certain key states in which we...more

Under FLSA Section 203(o) Does the Term "Changing Clothes" Include the Time a Manufacturing Employee Spends Putting On and Taking...

by Louis Santiago | Holland & Knight LLP on 2/27/2013

For minimum wage and over-time purposes, Section 203(o) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) states that "hours worked" does not include time spent "changing clothes" if that time is excluded from working time by the...more

Supreme Court To Resolve What Counts As 'Clothes' Under FLSA

by Michael Cardman | XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis on 2/20/2013

May an employer avoid paying a unionized employee for time spent putting on and taking off certain protective gear, such as safety glasses and ear plugs? What about ordinary clothing with special safety features, such as...more

Board Majority Holds Perpetual Wage Increases Post-Contract Expiration

by Harold P. Coxson | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 12/31/2012

In NLRB Decision Finley Hospital, a National Labor Relations Board (Board) majority (Members Pearce and Block) held, over the strong dissent of Board Member Brian Hayes, that a 3 percent annual pay increase for nurses...more

NYC Fast Food Workers Strike for a Union and Higher Wages

by Aaron Kase | Lawyers.com on 12/13/2012

Fast food workers walked off the job last week across New York City in a surprise effort aimed at increasing their paychecks and the creation of an unusual union. Employees at Burger King, Domino’s, McDonald’s, KFC,...more

México Promulga Reformas Importantes a la Ley Federal del Trabajo

by Oscar De la Vega, Liliana Hernández, Mónica Schiaffino | Littler on 12/5/2012

El día de hoy se publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el "Decreto por el que se reforman, adicionan y derogan diversas disposiciones de la Ley Federal del Trabajo" de México. Las reformas entran en vigor a partir del...more

Mexico Enacts Important Reforms to the Federal Labor Law

by Oscar De la Vega, Liliana Hernández, Mónica Schiaffino | Littler on 12/5/2012

Mexico's Federal Official Gazette today published a Decree that reforms and repeals various provisions of its Federal Labor Law (FLL). The reform will become effective on December 1, 2012, with some exceptions which are...more

Court Grants Summary Judgment Against Coca-Cola In Breach Of Collective Bargaining Agreement Claim By United Steel Workers

by Bryan R. Walters | Varnum LLP on 11/28/2012

In Local Union 2-2000 United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Service Workers International Union v. Coca-Cola Refreshments U.S.A. Inc. (W.D. Mich. Nov. 21, 2012), the...more

Contract Language Requires Continued Wage Increases Even After Expiration, rules divided NLRB

by Proskauer - Labor Relations on 10/16/2012

The process of collective bargaining is filled with nuance and sublety. Unlike other business negotiations, there is often a dance that takes place as the parties attempt to reach an agreement. Given the Act’s mandate that...more

Court Sends Collective Action to the Showers on Wage Claim for Time Spent Changing Clothes and Blows the Whistle on the “Clock”...

by Foley & Lardner LLP on 5/21/2012

In Sandifer v. United States Steel Corp. the Seventh Circuit considered claims brought by 800 former and current unionized hourly workers at U.S. Steel’s Gary, Indiana steel works facility under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

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