Feb 19, 2015 | ADA, ADEA, Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Discrimination, Employee Benefits, Employee Rights, FLSA, FMLA, Gender Discrimination, Overtime, Pregnancy Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Title VII, Uncategorized, Wage & Hour Issues, Wrongful Termination
The Local Civil Rules for the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina require that all civil cases be mediated with prior to trial. As many, if not most, types of employment cases are litigated in the federal courts, there is a good chance that you will...
Jul 11, 2014 | FLSA, Overtime, Uncategorized, Wage & Hour Issues
As you may have heard, President Obama has directed the Department of Labor to “modernize and streamline” overtime exemptions. The directive aims to simplify and minimize exemptions that prevent employees from receiving overtime pay under the Fair Labor...
Mar 17, 2013 | ADA, ADEA, Age Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Discrimination, Employee Handbooks, Employment Contracts, FLSA, FMLA, Gender Discrimination, Overtime, Pregnancy Discrimination, Retaliation, Sexual Harassment, Title VII, Uncategorized, Wage & Hour Issues, Wrongful Termination
This is a common question that employees often ask. The situation is often something along these lines…. “I have been working for X company for Y number of years (generally more than three) and have always had good performance appraisals and no...
Jul 16, 2011 | FLSA, Overtime, Retaliation, Uncategorized, Wage & Hour Issues
The U.S. Supreme Court’s March 22, 2011 ruling in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain resolved a long-standing question of whether oral complaints are protected from the FLSA’s anti-retaliation provision, which prohibits employers from firing an employee because the...
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