by Girish Anand | May 5, 2011 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
New Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations incorporating amendments and clarifications from recent years take effect today, May 5, 2011. The new rules also concern tip pooling arrangements, which make clear that tips cannot be diverted from people receiving them...
by Girish Anand | Apr 27, 2011 | Federal Labor Law, NLRB
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) extends workplace safeguards to employees' "protected concerted activity" in discussing wages, hours and working conditions, a protection that was generally thought to be confined to union organizing....
by Girish Anand | Apr 26, 2011 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, State Labor Law
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) earlier this year held a series of meetings to look into the issue of businesses' refusing to hire the unemployed and blatantly announcing so in their help wanted advertisements. Now, New Jersey has taken...
by Girish Anand | Apr 22, 2011 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
Wal-Mart is all over the news as the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to let a massive class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit with the potential for a multi-million-dollar judgment to go forward. Meanwhile, NERA Economic Consulting has pored through public...
by Girish Anand | Mar 22, 2011 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law
The U.S. Supreme Court today (March 22, 2011) overturned the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that, to be valid, complaints under the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must be in writing. In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance...
by Girish Anand | Mar 5, 2011 | Federal Labor Law, OSHA
The $65-million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, beset by spidery actors falling from the heights and landing on the stage from the beginning of rehearsals, is now facing $12,500 in fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),...