Call center workers can’t get overtime 
Published: September 8, 2010
Tags: fair labor standards act, FLSA, overtime
Call center workers for a weight loss company are not entitled to overtime under federal law, the 3rd Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
State bans criminal history questions on job applications
Published: September 8, 2010
Tags: background checks
Employers in Massachusetts must overhaul their job applications in light of a new law that changes the rules on criminal history background checks.
Company to pay $3 million in labor settlement
Published: September 8, 2010
Tags: reimbursement, unpaid overtime, wage and hour
A federal court judge in Tennessee has approved a $3 million class action settlement agreement between Olan Mills Inc. and employees–past and current–in four states as compensation for the portrait studio chain’s violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The alleged violations occurred between 2003 and 2009.
Male worker can sue for harassment
Published: September 7, 2010
Tags: hostile work environment, sex harassment, Title VII
A male employee who claimed he received unwelcome romantic advances from a female co-worker can sue for sexual harassment, the 9th Circuit has ruled in reversing a dismissal.
Man awarded $4.2 million in harassment case
Published: September 7, 2010
Tags: ethnic harassment, Illinois, religious harassment
An employee was awarded $4.2 million in total damages by a federal jury who believed the company did not do enough to stop years of religious and ethnic harassment.
Company settles sexual harassment suit for $5.8 million
Published: September 7, 2010
Tags: EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, sexual harassment
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced a $5.8-million settlement with a janitorial company over a suit, filed in 2007, alleged that 21 female janitors were sexually harassed or assaulted by 14 male supervisors, going back to 2001.
Settlement to cost retailer $2.1 million
Published: September 3, 2010
Tags: California, wage-and-hour law, Washington
Everett, Wash.-based retailer Zumiez has reached a tentative agreement to settle an employee lawsuit over alleged California wage-and-hour-law violations.
ERISA plaintiff entitled to ‘displacement’ benefits
Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: ERISA
An employee who lost his job after the sale of his company was entitled to job displacement benefits under the terms of his ERISA plan, the 3rd Circuit has ruled in affirming summary judgment.
Service workers may be entitled to overtime
Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: fair labor standards act, interstate commerce, overtime
Workers for local service providers may be entitled to overtime under federal law because their employers have a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce, the 11th Circuit has ruled in reversing judgment.
New Supreme Court term packed with big cases
By Kimberly Atkins -
Published: September 1, 2010
Tags: arbitration, civil rights, Criminal Law, Employment Law, preemption, retaliation, Supreme Court
This term the U.S. Supreme Court will take on issues ranging from the ability to file suit in matters involving arbitration clauses or federal regulations, to retaliation and privacy issues in employment law, to major criminal law and civil rights questions.
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