An alleged rejected male job applicant for a food server position at a Corpus Christi, Texas, Hooters has filed a class action sex discrimin...

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Do you know? Unless you are a state or local government, it is illegal to provide “comp” time in lieu of time-and-a-half for hours worked in...

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A lot of ink has been spilled about the nuts and bolts of the amendments to the ADA. The amendments make some key fundamental changes to var...

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What I’m Reading returns after an extended holiday break. To follow up on my post from earlier this week on the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, M...

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I’m in the process of drafting an employee handbook, which got me thinking – what are the policies that every handbook absolutely must conta...

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According to Monday’s New York Times , Congressional Democrats are looking to fast-track the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This should not c...

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Do you know? What does it take for an employee to qualify under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s Administrative Exemption? To qualify for th...

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For the uninitiated, Blawg Review is a weekly compilation of the prior week’s best posts from the legal blogosphere. It’s peer-reviewed, wh...

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On Wednesday, January 28, 2009, Kohrman Jackson & Krantz will hold its inaugural Employment Law Breakfast Briefing: The Top 10 Labor ...

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Since I ended 2008 with a look back at the top stories of the past year , I thought I’d start 2009 with a look forward at what to expect in ...

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Today brings us to the end of our countdown, and the top two labor and employment law stories of the year. Each of these stories will have f...

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Today brings us numbers 4 and 3 of our countdown of the year’s top labor and employment law stories: 4. President Bush signs the ADA Amend...

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Our year-end countdown the year’s top 10 labor and employment law stories continues with numbers 6 and 5: 6. The Ohio Supreme Court holds ...

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We continue our year-end countdown of 2008’s top 10 labor and employment law stories with numbers 8 and 7: 8. Wage and hour lawsuits conti...

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A couple of Sundays ago, the New York Times suggested that more and more companies will be flat out shutting down for the last week of the ...

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Do you know? What does it take for an employee to qualify as exempt under the Executive Exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act? Yesterday...

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At the end of last year, I made a list of New Year’s resolutions for everyone. Number 4 on that list was, “Audit your wage and hour practic...

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What I’m Reading This Week will be taking the rest of the year off to recharge it’s batteries. After today’s column, this feature will retu...

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Hot off the presses from the Department of Labor are the following documents to use when the new FMLA regulations go into effect on January ...

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Let’s review the currently protected classes. Under the current state of the law, it is illegal to discharge, to refuse to hire, or otherwis...

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