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• Wage and Hour Rights: Are Call Center Employees Entitled to Overtime Pay?
• Class Action Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Call Center Employees
• Wage and Hour Watch: DOL Recovers Back Pay, Liquidated Damages for Workers Denied Proper Overtime Pay
• An Overview of Whistleblower Rights
• What Damages Can Be Recovered in a Workplace Sexual Harassment Claim in Massachusetts?
• Can You Be Fired for No Reason At All in Connecticut?
• When Does Workplace Harassment Violate the Law in Massachusetts? 
• EEOC Releases Comprehensive Report on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• Wage and Hour Rights: Connecticut Department of Labor Issues Final CT FMLA Regulations
• Six Flags New England Sued for Making Workers Wait in Security Line Without Pay   
• How Do Employers Steal the Wages of Delivery Drivers?
• Five Signs You are Being Sexually Harassed at Work
• The Top Five Wage Violations in Springfield
• What Constitutes a Hostile Work Environment?
• What Are the Protections for Whistleblowers?
• What Are Class Actions?
• Sexual Harassment is Not Limited to Words
• What Are Unlawful Defamations?
• Wage and Hour Watch: Federal Court Orders Massachusetts Restaurant to Pay More than $340,000 in Back Wages and Liquidated Damages to Workers
• Federal Court Upholds Connecticut State Employer’s Ban on Porn in Workplace on Hostile Work Environment Grounds
• I Was a Victim of Harassment in the Workplace in Connecticut. Do I Have a Legal Claim?
• When Does Failure to Accommodate Constitute Disability Employment Discrimination in Massachusetts?
• How to Make a Formal Legal Complaint for Workplace Sexual Harassment in Connecticut
• Massachusetts Supreme Court: Employee Can Pursue Wrongful Termination Claim for Exercising Rebuttal Rights 
• Federal Court: Massachusetts Employer Must Pay $438,000 for Unpaid Overtime
• What Employees Can Expect When Connecticut’s Paid Leave Law Takes Effect January 1st, 2022
• Were You the Victim of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in Connecticut? Four Steps to Protect Your Legal Rights.
• Wrongful Termination: Three Reasons Why an Employer Cannot Fire You in Connecticut
• Wage and Hour Law: DOL Recovers More than $165,000 in Back Wages for Massachusetts Restaurant Workers
• Can Connecticut Employers Shift Overtime Hours to a Future Workweek?
• What Happens When Sexual Harassment is Perpetrated By a Customer?
• Stonington, CT Will Pay Former Employee $20,000 to Settle Wrongful Termination Claim
• Massachusetts Considering New Wage and Hour Laws for Tipped Workers
• Wage and Hour Law: Connecticut Regulators Recover Nearly $80,000 for Restaurant Workers
• Connecticut Legislators Tout State’s Strong Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws
• What Remedies are Available Through a Wrongful Termination Claim in Massachusetts?
• DOL Obtains Restraining Order Against Connecticut Employers that Retaliated Against Workers Who Cooperated With Wage and Hour Investigation
• Wage and Hour Investigation: Massachusetts Dispensary Will Pay Nearly $300,000 in Back Wage to More than 100 Employees
• Allegations: USPS Improperly Shorted Worker Wages, Unpaid Overtime
• DOL: Massachusetts Employer Allegedly Threatened to Retaliate Against Workers Who Cooperated With Wage and Hour Investigation
• Amazon Workers Entitled To Pay For Time Spent In Security Lines
• As of July 1st, 2021, Employees in Massachusetts May Begin PFML Benefits for “Care of a Family Member”
• Wisconsin Court Rules that Restaurants Owe Back Wages to Servers
• Off The Clock Work – When Is It Compensable?
• What Evidence Can I Use to Prove Sexual Harassment in the Workplace?
• Restaurant Employee Rights in Connecticut: What is the 80/20 Rule?
• Dick’s Sporting Good Assistant Managers Sue for Unpaid Overtime
• Connecticut Extends Workplace Sexual Harassment Training Deadline—But Employees Still Have Enhanced Rights Under the ‘Time’s Up’ Act
• Massachusetts Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
• Restaurant Employee Rights: What to Know About Workplace Safety and the Coronavirus
• Misclassification of Independent Contractors – the Gig Economy
• Can a “Joke” Qualify as Sexual Harassment in Connecticut?
• Restaurant Employee Rights: Can I File for Unemployment Benefits If My Hours Were Cut Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak?
• Emergency Family And Medical Leave Expansion Act
• What Is The Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act? 
• Massachusetts Wage Law For Personal Vehicle Use On Non-Commute Work-Related Travel
• Can I Be Fired Because Of The Coronavirus?
• What is Temporal Proximity and How Can It Be Used to Help Prove Wrongful Termination
• Employee Rights: What You Need to Know About Meal and Rest Breaks
• Are there "Harvey Weinsteins" in Connecticut?
• Triple Damages for Unpaid Commissions/Bonuses
• Does Your Employer Have to Pay You For Unused Vacation Time?
• 100% Commission Inside Sales-Persons Entitled To Overtime in Mass!
• Can My Employer Charge Me a Fee to Work?
• Can Employers Refuse to Accommodate a Pregnant Employee
• Can ESPN Fire Jemele Hill?
• Can My Employer Deny Overtime to Claims Adjusters?
• Can My Employer Refuse to Punish Sexually Harassing Coworkers
• Overtime Pay and ‘Mercantile Trade’ Employees
• Can My Employer Pay Me "Half Time Overtime
• Can My Employer Keep Me From Taking Medical Leave?
• Disability Employment Discrimination Failure to Accommodate
• Can My Employer Make Me Come In Early To Boot Up
• Can My Employer Limit the Length of My Pregnancy Leave?
• Can My Employer Limit the Length of My Pregnancy Leave
• Can my Employer Fire me Because of my Migraines?
• Is a CEO's Desire to Attract Young People Age Discrimination
• Is a CEO’s Desire to Attract Young People Age Discrimination?
• Massachusetts Court Rules Workers Entitled to be Paid Unused Vacation Time After Termination
• Can restaurants make servers do side-work for less than minimum wage?
• Can my employer not pay me to put on and take off my protective gear?
• Connecticut Ruby Tuesday Class Action Lawsuit put on Hold Until U.S. Supreme Court Rules
• Can Fox News Be Sued Again, Even Though It Fired Bill O'Reilly (and what is a "falafel thing" anyway)
• Can My Employer Shut Down Our Plant and Lay Everyone Off Without Notice
• Can My Employer Force Me Into Genetic Testing?
• Can My Employer Pressure Me To Break the Law?
• House Bill Seeks To Eliminate Class Actions
• Can my employer make me work a shift that is inconvenient for me?
• Should Connecticut Servers Be Paid The Minimum Wage?
• Does my employer have to pay me to study?
• Can my employer pay me on a 1099?
• Fired Wells Fargo employees claim the bank encouraged them!
• Can You Protest Trump at Work?
• Three Things You Must Know About How President Trump Will Affect Employee Rights
• Wells Fargo fired over 5,000 employees who participated in its scheme to open bank accounts for customers without their permission.
• Can my boss make me work as a free intern?
• Can restaurants make servers clean up?
• Can my boss deny me FMLA leave even if I didn’t mention the FMLA?
• Can my employer take deductions from my pay for insurance and other business expenses?
• Should minor league baseball players get overtime pay?
• Do I get accrued vacation time when my employment ends?
• Obama just changed the overtime laws. Can my employer change me from salaried to hourly?
• State Attorney General Cracks Down on Domino’s Pizza for Wage Theft
• BREAKING NEWS: SEVENTH CIRCUIT SAYS CLASS ACTION WAIVERS VIOLATE NLRA AND ARE UNENFORCEABLE
• Campaign for Paid Family Leave!
• Hayber, McKenna & Dinsmore Opens New Office in Massachusetts
• Deborah McKenna and Raymond Dinsmore join the Hayber, McKenna & Dinsmore
• Can my employer not pay me to put on and take off my protective gear?
• Can I take paid sick leave in Connecticut even if the FMLA does not apply to me?
• Can my employers reduce me from full time to part time to avoid Obamacare?
• Can my employer make me use my personal phone for business? And if so, should he pay me?
• LIMOUSINE COMPANIES STILL AREN’T GETTING THE MESSAGE!
• Can underwriters be denied overtime pay?
• Can I be fired because of my race?
• Connecticut Department of Labor refuses to enforce minimum wage law for servers! Could cost the average server over $5,000 per year in wages!
• Can my employer change me from salary to hourly?
• Can my employer fire me if I make too much money?
• “Managers” must be “in fact in charge” in order to be Exempt Executives, First Circuit holds. Being “in charge” under the FLSA is not merely a label!
• Can I collect unemployment if I am not completely unemployed?
• Can my employer prevent me from suing in court?
• What can I do if my employer cuts my hours or my pay?
• Independent Contractor misclassification in Connecticut: what are the remedies?
• Can my employer use a GPS system to monitor me when I use a vehicle provided by my employer?
• Can nurse or case managers be denied overtime?
• Can I be fired for Facebook posts or "likes"?
• Can I be refused leave from work necessary because of family violence?
• Can my employer make me work on a holiday?
• Free speech in the workplace- can you or can't you?
• Does my boss have to pay me for the time I spend driving to and from a work event?
• If Kim Davis were an employee, could she be fired for refusing to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples?
• Back to School Edition: Can I be fired or disciplined for leaving work when my kid is sick?
• Can an employer fire me for violating a rule I didn't know about?
• 2015 Changes to the Minimum Wage and Overtime Rules Applying to Home Health Workers
• Bill seeking to prohibit employers from using credit check results as a reason not to hire makes good common sense.
• Can I be paid time off instead of overtime pay when I work more than 40 hours in a week?
• I'm a medical coder. Am I exempt from overtime, or does my employer need to pay me "time and a half" when I work more than 40 hours a week?
• Can my employer refuse to pay me for unused vacation when I leave my job?
• The EEOC Weighs in on Sexual Orientation Discrimination
• Can an employer do a background check before hiring me?
• U.S. Department of Labor provides New Guidance on Independent Contractor/Employee Dichotomy
• Can my city establish a higher minimum wage than other cities in my state?
• Employers Can't Just Run a Background Check on You!
• Paid Family Leave Bill Moving Forward in Connecticut
• Can my employer deny my FMLA request because I messed up the paperwork?
• Hayber, McKenna & Dinsmore and Lichten & Liss-Riordan File Important Motion Against Compass Group!
• When can my employer deny my religious accommodation?
• Did you know? Sales Commissions are Protected like Wages in Connecticut for Some Reps!
• I work on an Indian Reservation. When does tribal law apply to my employment?
• CT Senators Back Bill to Prohibit Non-Competes for Low-Wage Workers
• What fields will be hiring in the future?
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Muslim Job Applicant
• Settlement for Police Officer Fired as a Result of his Mental Disability
• Can I get paid family leave if I or a family member gets seriously ill or injured?
• I'm an insurance underwriter. Can my boss deny me overtime pay?
• Hayber, McKenna & Dinsmore Wins Overtime Wages for Insurance Underwriter!
• Can my boss prohibit me from talking about my pay with other employees?
• The NFL needs to rethink the manner in which it disciplines its employees
• Can my employer make me give up the password to my personal online accounts?
• What are the requirements for my employer to pay me using the "tip credit"?
• Second Circuit Broadens Anti-Retaliation Provisions of Federal Wage Law
• Can my employer cancel my shift before I even get there?
• Outside Sales Exemption from Overtime Pay Not as Simple as You Might Think.
• What's the "Fight for $15?"
• D.C. Court Allows Whistleblower’s Court Case to Proceed!
• My employer's harassment policy requires that I report harassment to a "manager," but it's not clear who that is. What do I have to do to follow the policy?
• New Haven Legal Aid Wins for Unpaid Employees!
• Some Employers Make Employees Pay to Work!
• Can I be disciplined for using my sick days?
• Fresh Market Department Managers Defeat Employer's Motion!
• Connecticut Supreme Court Takes Up Whistleblower Case!
• Am I covered by wage and hour laws if I'm working because a court sentenced me to community service?
• Double Damages for Overtime and Minimum Wage Violations in Connecticut May Soon be Mandatory!
• Can I use my personal email for work purposes?
• Payless Shoes Pays its Managers Less, Settles Case for $2.9 Million
• U.S. Supreme Court Upholds DOL Rule that Mortgage Loan Officers Are Entitled to Overtime Pay
• Can my employer discriminate against me on the direction of a customer or client?
• Can my employer make me provide my personal cell phone number for emergency or after hours work calls?
• Compass Group sued in Collective Action alleging Assistant Managers should have been paid overtime.
• Can I be disciplined for taking time off on short notice to care for my sick child?
• Can I date someone at work? What if my boss buys me roses?
• Can my employer pay me using a pre-paid ATM card?
• Can I be paid a different rate at the same job when I do different work?
• I'm not getting paid for the overtime hours I work, and my employer has a "no-overtime" policy. If I clock out and continue to work, should I still be paid for those hours?
• Federal Court in Massachusetts Dismisses Challenge to GNC’s “Chinese Overtime” Policy – Plaintiffs likely to appeal!
• My employer won't give me a W-2 form so that I can do my taxes. What do I do?
• Are alcoholism and other addictions considered disabilities that my employer has to accommodate?
• Can my employer make me take down a religious display at work?
• Can my employer prevent me from using my work email for personal business?
• U.S. Appeals Court “unravels FedEx’s business model” and rules that drivers are not Independent Contractors
• Can I still claim unpaid overtime if I don't remember exactly how many hours I worked and I didn't keep records?
• Can my boss fire me for having to care for a disabled relative?
• I'm a waitress. Can my boss put bad tippers in my section?
• Can I be fired for divulging my employer's sensitive information if I believe that it is an issue important to the public?
• Can my union place an inflatable rat at my jobsite to publicize a dispute we're having with management?
• Second Circuit allows Insurance Claims Representatives to sue for unpaid overtime!
• Can road races recruit unpaid volunteers to staff the course?
• Court rules against Walsh Construction in overtime case!
• What laws protect my free exercise of religion at work?
• Can my employer make me wait in line for a security screening after I've clocked out?
• Can my employer discriminate against me because it thinks I'm disabled, even if I don't think I am?
• Can my boss prohibit me from speaking a foreign language on the job?
• Walsh Construction being sued by Project Accountants and Administrative Assistants.
• My employer doesn't have any posters with information on employment laws for employees to read. Is that a problem?
• FedEx Ground Drivers are misclassified as Independent Contractors, says Court of Appeals!
• My friend who works in Massachusetts gets overtime when she works on Sundays and holidays. How come I don't?
• Hearing in GNC “half time overtime” case set for November 12, 2014.
• Can my boss fire me because he wants to hire someone whom he can pay less?
• Late paycheck results in FLSA claim!
• Can the Department of Labor help me find a job?
• What is the WARN Act, and what are my employer's obligations under it?
• What is the "prevailing wage?"
• What kind of records does my boss have to keep regarding my employment?
• Can my boss enforce the non-compete I signed?
• Dr. David Weil of the United States Department of Labor listens to employees’ overtime concerns.
• Ocean State Job Lot sued again by its Assistant Managers!
• What happens if my employer files for bankruptcy?
• Can companies get away with all these robo-calls?
• Can I file for bankruptcy if I have a lawsuit going against my employer?
• What happens if I've taken all of my paid time off but I have an emergency and can't work?
• Can my boss be really mean to me?
• Family Dollar settles another Store Manager overtime case!
• Can my boss fire me for testifying about misconduct in the workplace?
• Pepsi sued for paying Chinese Overtime to its workers
• Can my employer take money out of my paycheck if I make a mistake?
• Can I sue for unpaid wages if my employer has already been subject to a DOL investigation?
• My job is closed FOR A DAY due to an emergency. Do I get paid?
• Can a potential employer revoke a job offer based on the results of a medical exam?
• Why can't I sue my employer if I get hurt on the job?
• McJobs Are Not The Answer!
• Can my boss make me share my tips?
• Can I be punished for protesting against something my boss says that I believe is wrong?
• Why are wage / hour class actions important?
• Can my employer make an agreement with other employers in my field not to solicit each others' employees?
• Class Action Representative Plaintiff wins $3 million retaliation case!
• Inside Sales employees: how is overtime calculated?
• Can my boss pay me commissions for inside sales, but no overtime?
• Inside Sales Exemption: what are the rules?
• What accommodations does my employer have to make for me if I'm pregnant?
• Massachusetts Family Dollar Store Managers allowed to Sue for Overtime Wages in State Court.
• Can I be fired for reporting potential securities fraud?
• Hey! I'm a college athlete! Can I join a union?
• Can my boss decide to take away my bonus based on purely subjective factors?
• Can my boss fire me or take another adverse action against me for complaining about an unsafe workplace?
• Can my former employer refuse to pay my settlement proceeds from my employment case for telling my daughter about the settlement?
• Can my employer pay me cash to avoid payroll taxes?
• Can Sports Teams Pay Cheerleaders, Minor League Players, Clubhouse Managers, and Video Operators Less than Minimum Wage?
• Can my boss deny me a lunch break?
• Can employers post job advertisements stating that unemployed candidates will not be considered?
• Are auto damage appraisers entitled to overtime pay?
• BJ’s sued a third time for same wage violation!
• Fresh Market “Chinese Overtime” Challenged in Court! Plaintiffs move for notice to go out to class of Department Managers.
• Can my employer pay me commissions instead of overtime?
• Progressive Appraisers - Are they entitled to Overtime wages?
• I have to take business trips for my job. Should I be paid for this time?
• Do I have to give two weeks' notice if I quit my job?
• Can my boss make me work extra while's he's away on a sunny vacation?
• Can my boss tell me I can't take FMLA leave?
• Can my employer deduct money from my paycheck if I take an advance?
• What can I do if my employer says something about me that isn't true?
• Limo drivers entitled to overtime, says US DOL and some lawsuits!
• Hanukkah edition: what can I do if my boss promises me eight days of work but only employs me for one?
• What Can I Do If My Employer Cuts My Hours or My Pay?
• Can My Boss Retaliate Against Me for Striking?
• Lady Gaga's Assistant Sues for Overtime Pay
• What Can I Do If I'm Being Harassed at Work?
• Personnel File and Your Rights
• Limousine Drivers and Overtime
• Unpaid Interns and Sexual Harassment
• Government Shutdown's Effect on Employees
• Termination Based on Wages
• Legality of Biometric Scanners
• Home Care Workers and Minimum Wage, Overtime
• Charging a Fee for Coming to Work
• Payless Sued in Pennsylvania for paying only "half time" overtime!
• Exotic Dancers ruled employees, not independent contractors!
• Non-compete Contract When Companies Merge
• An Employment Lawyer’s Reflections this Labor Day Weekend
• Taking Time Off for Sick Child
• Connecticut "wage police" collect $6.5 million for workers!
• Fast food workers strike!
• Prevented from Taking Class Action to Court
• Inadequate Harassment Training
• Fired for Gaining Weight
• Class Actions are Good! Joe Nocera is Wrong!
• Babysitter Employment Rights
• Cable Installers are employees (not independent contractors)!
• Fired for Being Attractive
• Working With Someone Who Assaulted You
• Displaying an American Flag at Work
• Paying Wages With Debit Card
• State Court cases against Family Dollar rolling along!
• Couriers as Independant Contractors
• Federal Judge in Connecticut Rules CAD Drafter Entitled to Overtime
• Connecticut's Minimum Wage Still Behind Where it Should Be.
• Application of Unemployment Benefits
• Paid Time Off Versus Overtime
• Office Depot's Overtime Scheme violates Federal Law!
• Early End for Shift
• Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk: A ruling that will never be used?
• When you were a kid, you may have heard threats about bad behavior going on your “permanent record.”
• Required Credit Report
• Disclosure of Background Check Report
• Domino’s Pizza Drivers Reach $2.5 Million Tentative Settlement for Violations of Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”)
• Connecticut Court Certifies Class Action for Assistant Managers at Ocean State Job Lot!
• TD Bank Underwriter Overtime Case Heads to Mediation!
• Family Dollar being sued in State Courts by Store Managers - avoiding the 4th Circuit!
• Required Health Screening
• Workers aren't "bottom feeders."
• Caring for an Older Disabled Child
• Using a Lie Detector Test to Find Missing Property
• Outsourcing Your Own Job
• TD Bank sued for overtime by Loan Underwriters!
• Are insurance underwriters entitled to overtime pay?
• Overtime for Underwriters
• Mortgage underwriters winning overtime cases from coast to coast!
• Overtime for Nurses
• Termination Based on Voting
• Denial of Meal Breaks
• Pro-Union Button Limit
• Discipline for Inquiring about Coworkers Salaries
• Lifeguard Fired for Saving Drowning Man
• U.S. Supreme Court sides with Pharma Industry! What a surprise!
• Required Flu Vaccine
• Fired While Out on Disability
• Underwriters sue Peoples United Bank for overtime wages in Class Action!
• Hayber, McKenna & Dinsmore Facebook Page
• Fired for Being a Witness in Criminal Case
• Termination for Not Working Overtime
• Facebook Log-In Privacy
• Length of Pregnancy Leave
• Miami Marlins Manager Suspended for Castro remarks
• Overtime Denial for Loan Officers
• Termination Due to Safety Concerns at Nursing Facility
• Tip Credit for Restaurants
• Denial of Unemployment Based on Emails
• Termination Due to Affair
• Required Maternity Leave
• Legality of Unpaid Interns
• Professor Fired Over Grade
• Deloitte & Touche sued by auditors. Court authorizes notice to class!
• Different Overtime Rates
• Overtime for Mortgage Loan Officers
• Second Circuit Applies Burlington Northern to FMLA (and other great rulings)!
• JoePa Termination Case
• Erick Diaz Announcement
• Connecticut Federal Judge Rejects "Chinese Overtime"
• Termination After Birth of Baby
• Billionaire owner of Gristedes grocery stores held personally liable for wages!
• Third Circuit: Employer Can’t Moot Collective Action with Offer of Judgment
• Returning soldier loses job – loses lawsuit. Second Circuit affirms.
• Refusing to Lie at Work
• Second Circuit narrows Garcetti!
• Leave Provided for Domestic Violence Situations
• BREAKING NEWS: SECOND CIRCUIT ALLOWS CLASS ARBIRTATION OF EMPLOYMENT DISPUTE
• Homophobic Harrassment in the Workplace
• Wage / Hour class actions: Dead or Alive?
• When is a Manager not a Manager?
• Payment For Servers Only in Tips
• Restaurants must pay minimum wage, even when on Beer Tub duty!
• The death of wage hour class actions might have been exaggerated!
• New Legislation for Paid Sick Days
• The end of wage / hour class actions?
• Workplace Causes Illness
• Service Animals in the Workplace
• False Information in Personnel File
• Right to Class Action Suit
• Gender Discrimination Suit Against Walmart
• Retaliation for Overtime Complaint
• Alternate Overtime System
• Lawsuit challenges "Chinese Overtime" in Connecticut
• Fired for Bumper Sticker
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce ranks Connecticut "poor" because of employee friendly laws.
• State's Right to Modify Collective Bargaining Rights
• Termination for Stopping Robbery
• Termination for Political Opinion
• Sports Team Support Cause for Termination
• Termination in Adrian Peterson Issue
• Retaliation Due to Lawsuit
• NYPD retaliates against FLSA overtime plaintiff!
• Replacement During Medical Leave
• Being Forced to Quit Versus Being Fired
• Jury Awards $1,000,000 but judge takes away punitives!
• Unsafe Conditions at Work
• Facebook negative comments about boss protected speech, says NLRB!
• Social Media Privacy
• Termination for not Writing
• Pharmaceutical Reps sue Lupin for unpaid overtime!
• Overtime for Inside Salesperson
• Inappropriate Behavior is Grounds for Termination
• Quitting a Job and Unemployment
• Refusal of Overtime Pay to Pharmaceutical Reps
• Forced Overtime
• BREAKING NEWS: 2d Circuit rules Rx Reps Get Overtime!
• Court rules Fed Ex Ground Drivers are Employees!
• Company Dissolution and Due Wages
• Confidentiality clauses may be a thing of the past!
• Walmart managers must stack 50 pound bags of dog food?
• Operations Managers sue United Rentals, Inc.
• Family Dollar sued in Connecticut (and elsewhere!)
• Interview Questions to Watch Out For
• Boston Market sued for overtime by Assistant Managers
• Morgan v. Family Dollar an imporant case for retail managers!
• Franken Amendment signed into law!
• Assistant Store Manager sues Ocean State Job Lot
• Supporting the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act
• Underwriters Entitled to Overtime
• Keeping Informed on Arbitration Issues in Congress
• You Be the Judge 3
• Home Depot Assistant Managers Fight for Overtime
• You Be the Judge 2
• "Fired!" Places Unemployment in a New Perspective
• You Be the Judge
• David Lopez Serving as EEOC General Counsel
• Rising Unemployment Connecticut Trend
• The Rights to Telecommute
• Franken anti-arbitration amendment passes Senate
• Swine Flu Vaccine Requirement
• Dow passes 10,000, fails to help workers!
• Sexual Harassment at CBS
• Wage violations rampant among low wage workers!
• Third Circuit holds gender stereo typing helps gay workers!
• Gay man wins gender stereo-typing case at 3d Circuit!
• CVS sued again by more Assistant Store Managers!
• Federal judge allows waiver of collective action claims!
• CVS Assistant Store Manager Overtime case moving along
• Connecticut loses 4,800 jobs in June!
• CVS Pharmacy, Inc. sued in Texas for Overtime violations!
• Town of Greenwich held liable for race discrimination
• U.S. Supreme Court's Age case won't hurt here in Connecticut
• U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Discriminatory Nature of Test
• Men accused of sexual harassment can sue!
• Paycheck Fairness Act in U.S. Senate. Keep your fingers crossed!
• Pharmaceutical Sales Reps at issue again!
• Connecticut Supreme Court reverses Lyon v. Jones! Yipee!!
• New Haven Fire Fighters case triggers debate
• Suit Filed Against CVS
• More Assistant Managers win overtime claims!
• Schering "sales reps" entitled to overtime!!
• Federal Judge calls FLSA suits "nuisance!!"
• Accomodating Disabilities in the Workplace
• AIG Executives' Right to Bonuses
• Can AIG avoid paying out retention bonuses?
• Short-Term Disability Leave
• Are bonuses wages? - Part III
• CVS sued in Connecticut for overtime violations
• Qualifying for Unemployment
• Last Chance Agreements can't release future claims!
• Legality of Love Contracts
• Staples New Jersey Assistant Managers win $2.5 million in overtime lawsuit. Is Connecticut next?
• Termination Due to Absence
• Termination Due to Pregnancy
• Too many retail employers take advantage of "Managers"
• Too many people without insurance!
• Family Dollar Stores to pay $35,000,000 to Store Managers for back overtime!
• Refusing to Work Seven Days a Week
• Fex Ex agress to pay $27 million to California drivers. Are Connecticut drivers next?
• Class actions well suited to help enforce employee rights
• Termination Due to Economy
• Bonuses are wages says the Appellate Court!
• I just got a pink slip. Now what do I do?
• Appellate court permits fitness for duty exam for "stressed out" employee.
• Connecticut Supreme Court rules for employees again!
• Connecticut's Wage Law behind the times
• Supreme Court Affirms Vollemans v. Town of Wallingford!
• Rights to Bonus if Terminated
• Speaking Other Languages to Customers
• Reaching a Compromise to Help Whistleblowers in Federal Agencies
• Termination Without Cause
• Connecticut Legislature Overrides Rell's Veto of Minimum Wage Increase
• Signing a Performance Review
• Right to Refuse Drug Test
• My Blog
• Caucasion has prima facie case of gender, race and age discrimination.
• Proposed Bill Gives Connecticut workers more sick leave rights.
• Connecticut Supreme Court expands rights of disabled workers.
• Necessity of a Pink Slip
• Unused Vacation Time
• Employee Access to Personnel Files
• Enforcing Non-competition Clauses