New overtime rule benefits millions of employees
May 19th, 2016
On May 18, 2016, the United States Department of Labor announced formal adoption of the updated rule regarding overtime pay. This important development in employment law automatically extends pay protections to several million workers within the next…
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Trending: paid leave, a living wage, and more?!
April 14th, 2016
The United States is the only nation in the industrialized world that provides no paid time off at a country-wide level to new parents or, for that matter, to others needing family or medical leave. Fortunately, the deliberate dysfunction of Congress…
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Deliberate difference: the tragedy in Flint
March 1st, 2016
Recent events have attracted widespread attention to a serious problem that has existed without much public outcry until now. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan imposed an unelected city “manager” on the City of Flint several years ago. This unelec…
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Defendant gamesmanship curtailed in employment, civil rights, and consumer protection cases
February 1st, 2016
Contrary to its typical approach in recent years, the Supreme Court ruled in a way that enhances enforcement activity in employment, civil rights, and consumer protection cases. Until this Supreme Court decision, in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez, defen…
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The intersection of labor & employment law, civil rights, and consumer protection
January 4th, 2016
Recent media reports have declared that forced labor taints the nation’s food supply chains, from farms in Western Africa and surrounding Southeast Asia to supermarkets in the United States. This is big business according to a United Nations study,…
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We all do better when we all do better
December 1st, 2015
The recent Report issued by the National Employment Law Project, “The Growing Movement For 15,” documents the increasing successes in obtaining a living wage for employees around the country. In the process, the Report provides a compelling remin…
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The legal landscape for whistleblowers
November 9th, 2015
The Minnesota Legislature recently amended Minnesota’s whistleblower law to revise the statutory definitions of “good faith,” “penalize,” and “report” and, consequently, to extend the reach of the law. To that end, the whistleblower law…
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Outsourcing the rule of law via the TPP agreement
October 13th, 2015
Agents of numerous countries, led by the United States, have engaged in closed-door meetings about a secret agreement to create rights for foreign corporations and other “investors” to challenge domestic consumer protections, environmental provis…
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Converging efforts to shut down the corporate shell game
September 1st, 2015
As the economy has become more globalized and volatile, a growing number of companies have sought to minimize liabilities while maximizing profits by using the corporate form to create supposed separation between closely related entities. This “sep…
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The right to overtime pay to be significantly extended
August 4th, 2015
The law recognizes several exceptions to the overtime pay requirement under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201, et seq., (“FLSA”): the Executive, Administrative, Professional, Computer, and Outside Sales exemptions. In other words,…
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