Just last week, we offered a web training to our clients highlighting the continuing challenges faced by employers as they strive to comply with state and federal wage and hour laws. A June 9th decision by New York District...more
Wal-Mart may have felt the first aftershock of the Supreme Court’s March 2016 opinion in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, which undercut overbroad interpretations of its landmark 2011 Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision and found that...more
In a highly anticipated decision, the Supreme Court last week affirmed a $5.8 million judgment against Tyson Foods and held that damages in a class action can be established by “statistical sampling” – a phrase that may now...more
4/1/2016
/ Class Action ,
Comcast v. Behrend ,
Doffing ,
Donning ,
Dukes v Wal-Mart ,
FRCP 23 ,
SCOTUS ,
Statistical Sampling ,
Tyson Foods v Bouaphakeo ,
Unpaid Overtime ,
Wage and Hour
Earlier this month Sirius XM Radio Inc. settled a wage & hour class action with a class of 1,852 unpaid interns that claimed the company violated federal and state labor laws by failing to compensate them for the work they...more
8/24/2015
/ Class Action ,
Employee Definition ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fox Searchlight Pictures ,
Minimum Wage ,
Popular ,
Settlement ,
SiriusXM ,
Unpaid Interns ,
Unpaid Overtime ,
Wage and Hour
It’s been a busy few weeks for developments in the area of LGBT rights since the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell , 576 U.S. ___ (2015)....more
7/27/2015
/ American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ,
Class Action ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Employee Benefits ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equality Act ,
Gender Discrimination ,
King v Burwell ,
LGBTQ ,
Popular ,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) ,
Same-Sex Marriage ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Spouses ,
Title VII ,
Transgender ,
Wal-Mart
Many of us spent summers working as interns, getting access to the industry of our choice, making contacts, learning – and yes running errands and filing and stuffing envelopes and doing other “grunt” work. Most young people...more