by Girish Anand | Dec 16, 2016 | FLSA, NLRB
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s ruling that denied employee status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to student athletes at the University of Pennsylvania, who had filed suit to establish an employer-employee...
by Girish Anand | Nov 1, 2016 | Minimum Wage Law, NLRB, Overtime Rules
For the first time, McDonald’s has ceased fighting a joint employer legal action and agreed to a $3.75 million settlement with franchisee employees over a wage dispute. The burger corporation was facing a lawsuit in San Francisco and a battle with the National...
by Girish Anand | Aug 23, 2016 | NLRB
In a decision today that could drastically alter the university landscape, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) voted 3-1 along party lines to grant employee status to graduate student assistants at Columbia University, allowing them to unionize. The ruling,...
by Girish Anand | Jul 13, 2016 | NLRB
After the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling in 2015 that temporary workers are “joint employees” of both their staffing agency and the company where they work, employers feared that the next step would be to include such joint employees...
by Girish Anand | Jan 20, 2016 | NLRB, WARN Act
Republic Windows and Doors, located in Goose Island, Ill., abruptly shuttered its manufacturing facility in 2008, declared bankruptcy and relocated to Iowa using another name. Workers were let go with no notice, violating the Worker Adjustment and Retraining...
by admin | Aug 28, 2015 | NLRB
The growing practice of hiring contract workers from third-party staffing agencies instead of full-time employees took a hit yesterday when the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled 3-to-2 that such firms are nonetheless responsible for labor violations...
