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Congress Considers Legislation to Overturn Age Discrimination Ruling

Last term, the Supreme Court decided a controversial age discrimination case called Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. You can read my blog post about it here, including my prediction --...

Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Two-Member NLRB Decisions

Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced that it has agreed to decide an issue that has had the Courts of Appeals tied up in knots: whether decisions issued by only two members of the National Labor...

Proposed ADA Regulations Take a New Approach

In the ADA Amendments Act, which went into effect at the beginning of this year, Congress told the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) that it had defined the term...

Low Wage Worker Survey Reveals Widespread Wage and Hour Violations

Earlier this month, a report was released on a 2008 survey of low-wage workers in the cities of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. The title of the report, "Broken Laws, Unprotected...

Senator Ted Kennedy Dies

Ted Kennedy, who died last night, was known as "the Lion of the Senate." He was also a true working class hero, or more accurately, a hero of the working class. He was one of my heroes as...

Please Do Not Microchip the Employees (But Biometric Scanning May Be OK)

Did you know that at least four states have passed laws that prohibit mandatory or coerced microchipping, including installing a microchip or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag as a condition...

Managers May Be Personally Liable for Unpaid Wages -- Even If Company Goes Bankrupt

Last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that a group of employees could pursue claims for unpaid wages against three individual managers of a company that was in bankruptcy. In Boucher...

Use of Company Email for Union Messages

As anyone who listened to even a few minutes of Justice Sotomayor's confirmation hearings knows, the role of the courts in our government of separated powers is not to make the law,...

Workplace Camera Doesn't Violate Employee Privacy Rights

Last week, the California Supreme Court decided a big workplace privacy case, Hernandez v. Hillsides, Inc. The case involved a camera hidden in an office shared by two clerical employees of a private...

Supreme Court Decision May Lead to More Dismissed Cases

Employment law experts have been paying close attention to how federal courts are interpreting the 2009 Supreme Court case of Ashcroft v. Iqbal. In the Iqbal case, the Court held that a man who was...