Beware the “anticipatory pregnancy” claim
In Cadenas v. Butterfield Health Care II, Inc. (N.D. Ill. 7/15/14) , a federal court asked the question of whether an employer could termin...
LinkedIn’s $6M FLSA settlement provides a good lesson to employers (updated)
By Jon Hyman
LinkedIn will pay nearly $6 million in back pay and liquidated damages to 359 current and former employees following a Department of Labor i...
You cannot fire an employee who asks for time off for his pregnant wife's medical appointment
By Jon Hyman
One of the very first posts I ever wrote on this blog, all the back in May of 2007, detailed the EEOC’s then-recent publication of enforcem...
WIRTW #330 (the “be careful what you post” edition)
By Jon Hyman
You’d think that people would know better than to post a private conversations with one’s attorney over a public social network. Kaiser v. G...
6th Cir. invalidates individual waivers of FLSA collective action participation
By Jon Hyman
The wage-and-hour class or collective action lawsuit is one of, if not the, greatest risk facing employers. Many of these lawsuits are filed...