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- 2012.01.26: It's Not Broken, Don't Fix It: Congress Proposes Barriers to Unemployment Insurance
- 2011.10.27: Unpaid Internships, Are they Legal?
- 2011.10.13: Multiple State and Federal Agencies Join Forces to Battle Wage Theft
- 2011.09.22: Tyson Pays $32 Million to Settle Donning and Doffing Lawsuit
- 2011.09.08: Fair Pay to Resolve Economic Woes
- 2011.07.28: Home Care Workers Fight for Minimum Wage and Overtime Protection through FLSA
- 2011.07.21: Do Republicans Want to Diminish Overtime Protection in the Fair Labor Standards Act?
- 2011.06.23: Women of Wal-Mart Lose - Supreme Court Rules
- 2011.06.09: Supreme Court Rules: Employers Can be Held Liable for Unlawful Discrimination under USERRA Using Cat's Paw Theory of Liability
- 2011.05.12: Are You Entitled to Be Paid For Time Spent Hauling Equipment From Home?--Federal Appeals Court Says "Yes"
- 2011.04.28: FCRA: Revenge of the Gossip Chain Victims
- 2011.04.21: Wage Lawsuit Filed Against Creekstone Farms
- 2011.04.14: A Tip of the Cap to the Department of Labor for Supporting Tipped Employees
- 2011.04.07: Supreme Court Clarifies That Verbal Complaints Can Trigger Retaliation Protection
- 2011.03.31: Overtime Pay Lawsuit for Oppenheimer Stock Brokers: $2M Settlement Approved on Preliminary Basis
- 2011.03.24: "Business as Usual" Is a Recipe for Liability for an ERISA Fiduciary
- 2011.03.17: Selecting Financial and other Service Providers for an Employee Benefits Plan
- 2011.03.10: ESOP's Fable: A Tale of Conflicted Fiduciaries
- 2011.03.03: A "Lump Sum" Retirement Benefit Shouldn't Mean "Taking Your Lumps" in Your Benefit Calculation
- 2011.02.25: Don't Just Zip Out That ZIP Code
- 2011.02.24: Paying for Employee On Call Time
- 2011.02.17: Banks Pocket Spread from Pension Funds On Foreign Currency Exchanges
- 2011.02.10: Real Tips for Tipped Employees
- 2011.02.03: Time Clock Rounding: Is it Legal?
- 2011.01.27: Health Care Overtime, "8 and 80 Rule"
- 2011.01.25: Workplace Retaliation Protections Extended by Supreme Court
- 2011.01.21: Pay Practices for Health Care Workers Under Investigation
- 2011.01.13: New Overtime Rights--"Driving" Under the Radar of Overtime Rights
- 2010.12.09: US Supreme Court to Review Wal-Mart Class Action
- 2010.11.16: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules in Favor of Plaintiffs
- 2010.11.11: Arizona Grower Fined 50k for Child Labor Violations
- 2010.10.26: Kansas Labor Secretary and Other Legislators Discuss Misclassification, Wage Theft, and Independent Contractors
- 2010.10.15: US Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Regarding Anti-Retaliation Provisions of FLSA
- 2010.09.16: FLSA does not Preempt Wisconsin State Law Claims in Kraft Foods Donning and Doffing Litigation
- 2010.09.09: Hourly Employees Sue Dollar Tree for Off the Clock Work
- 2010.08.19: Department of Labor Sides with Plaintiffs in Arguing Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives are Eligible for Overtime
- 2010.08.12: District of Kansas Finds Airplane Mechanics Eligible for Overtime
- 2010.08.06: Senate Considers Amendment to FLSA That Would Protect Home Health Workers
- 2010.07.30: 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Drug Representatives Not Exempt from Overtime
- 2010.07.22: Drug Lawsuits Continue Against Makers of Avandia
- 2010.07.15: 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Finds Drug Representatives Not Exempt from Overtime
- 2010.07.08: Department of Labor Finds that Employees who Wear Safety Equipment Must be Paid to Don and Doff that Equipment
- 2010.07.01: Department of Labor Increases Wage & Hour Oversight
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January 26, 2012 It's Not Broken, Don't Fix It: Congress Proposes Barriers to Unemployment Insurance During the last few years, which represent the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression,...
October 27, 2011 Unpaid Internships, Are they Legal? In an effort to get a head start on the quest for gainful employment upon...
October 13, 2011 Multiple State and Federal Agencies Join Forces to Battle Wage Theft The Labor Department is cracking down on employers who cheat their employees out of wages....
September 22, 2011 Tyson Pays $32 Million to Settle Donning and Doffing Lawsuit On September 15, 2011, a class action wide settlement was approved on behalf of workers...
September 8, 2011 Fair Pay to Resolve Economic Woes The New York Times published an editorial during the Labor Day weekend of 2010, written...
July 28, 2011 Home Care Workers Fight for Minimum Wage and Overtime Protection through FLSA In 1974 Congress added domestic workers to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), however, those...
