While working women have made great strides in recent decades, as evidenced by higher earnings, greater occupational diversity and a larger presence in leadership positions and entrepreneurial fields, they still face unique barriers in the U.S. workforce. Women are more likely to live in poverty...
From Meyer v. Snyder's Lance, Inc., Case No. 4:12-CV-215 (COL) (M.D. Ga.): Defendant's Motion to Dismiss is another example of what Twombly and Iqbal have wrought-a compulsion to file a motion to dismiss in every case. The Supreme Court' s statement in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S...
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury recently issued a final rule increasing parity between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits in group and individual health plans. The final rule implements the Paul Wellstone and Pete...
Not long ago, a friend asked me why I traveled from Pittsburgh to Las Vegas to see Motley Crue perform at The Joint at the Hard Rock Cafe. My reply was simple. Because, I told him, Motley Crue writes great rock-n-roll songs. Because the band members are good musicians. Because the Crue always...
Bank of America agreed on Friday to pay $39 million to women who worked in its Merrill Lynch brokerage operation, another costly settlement of a discrimination case filed by its employees. The agreement, filed Friday evening in a federal court in Brooklyn, was the second by the nation's largest...
From Secretary of Labor Tom Perez - To create opportunity for American workers, we must ensure that they can earn enough to support a family and afford life's very basics. Tomorrow, it will be exactly four years since our low-wage workers last saw a raise. Now more than ever, we must renew the...
The basic American bargain is that people who work hard and meet their responsibilities should be able to get ahead. This basic bargain is not just an idea—it is embedded in laws that promote equal access to jobs and that protect workers from unfair practices. For workers who are lesbian, gay...
The Post-Gazette's Michelle Hackeman interviewed us for this wonderful piece on unpaid internships and the Fair Labor Standard Act. As Michelle reports, college students seek internships to gain job experience and learn what cannot be learned in a classroom. That experience is supposed to give...
Employers across the country are now using credit reports to as a part of their hiring procedures. Use of credit reports in the application process is becoming a standard practice. Even employers outside of the financial industry are using credit reports as a screening tool. Using credit reports...
That's what we told Connor Adams Sheets of the International Business Times who interviewed us for his recent exclusive report on the politically charged, anti-Obama, anti-Democrat emails exchanged among several federal employees during work hours and using federal computer systems. As Connor...
From Think Progress/ Justice By Nicole Flatow on Jun 18, 2013 at 1:30 pm Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) brought renewed attention to the critical battle over nominees to the federal courts Thursday evening, in remarks that blasted the "corporate capture" of the federal courts, and called on those...
Check out our recent interview with the Pittsburgh Business Times on the "Black Swan" unpaid intern case. Now is the time for employers to review their internship programs and check, re-check and then check again that they are not misclassifying employees as unpaid interns. The internship...
We were pleased to contribute some thoughts to a recent piece by Michele Bowman from Lawyers.com. Click the picture to read the full article.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, federal law now requires employers to provide "reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express the milk." Employers are also required to provide...
The Supreme Court's decision in Arlington v. FCC is helpful both to employees and to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In Arlington, a six justice majority held that federal courts owe "Chevron deference" to how an administrative agency interprets its own jurisdiction...