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Two courts in the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled that the Illinois Whistleblower Act (IWA) (740 ILCS § 174/5) provides for individual liability.

Employers face many headaches in a unionized workplace, but one supposed benefit of a union is that it streamlines procedures across large groups of employees.

On April 24, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") in the United States passed a nationwide ban on non-competes in workplaces for jobs and industries that the FTC regulates (the "Non-Compete Ban").

Three unpaid interns who worked on the Black Swan film sued Fox claiming they were owed minimum wage and overtime for their work.

NLRB General Counsel Richard Griffin wants the Board to review its current rule of permitting employers unilaterally to withdraw recognition from a union based on objective evidence that it has lost majority support.

Please join us on October 30, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. for a Webinar on using ADR Provisions and Waivers to Mitigate Wage and Hour Class Action Risks.

Over the summer, we posted about an interesting New Jersey appellate court decision (Rodriquez v. Raymours Furniture) enforcing a provision in a job application that reduced the period in which an employee could sue an employer to six months from the date of the adverse employment action.

Things seem to be developing rapidly in North Carolina.

On February 4, 2008, Fried Frank issued a client memorandum describing a recent Private Letter Ruling in which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reversed its previous position on the effect that certain termination of employment provisions have on payments which are intended to qualify as performancebased compensation" for purposes of section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code").

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has approved a final rule that it hopes will improve the Employment Eligibility Verification (Form I-9) process employers use to verify the identifies of newly hired employees and their authorization to work in the United States.

As noted here earlier, the government announced its intention to seek Supreme Court review of the DC Circuit decision which held that the President’s recess appointments to the NLRB were unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court has recently announced that it will take up the question of when the statute of limitations period may begin to run for filing a legal action for long-term disability benefits under an ERISA plan.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk. The issue is whether employees must be paid for their time going through a security screening and waiting in line to be screened.

Whistleblower protections under the SOX Act also apply to employees of private contractors and subcontractors who contract with public companies.

The U.S. Supreme Court has recently issued its ruling in U.S. Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen in which the Court unanimously ruled that a clearly drafted reimbursement clause will trump all equitable defenses.

Recent years have seen multiple court rulings addressing whether certain allegedly discriminatory and retaliatory actions by employers that do not cause significant harm to the employee can nevertheless be the subject of a viable claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended.

On June 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of LaRue v. DeWolff, Boberg & Associates, Inc., No. 06 Civ. 856, thereby agreeing to consider hotly contested issues surrounding the scope of relief available to 401(k) plan participants under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

Dallas Managing Partner Michael Abcarian wrote "We Got Sued for What? Tools for Dealing with Difficult Employment Situations" for Texas CEO Magazine.