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On Monday, April 19, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in City of Ontario v. Quon, a case addressing the right of a public employer to review employee text messages on a pager purchased by the public employer for employee business use.

ISBE released a guidance document on residential placements, Guidance on PA 95-0844 and PA 95-0938. The document answers frequently asked questions related to residential...

The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Second Administrator’s Interpretation addressing what is considered "clothes" for purposes of determining compensable time under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Today, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in City of Ontario v. Quon—the first Supreme Court case directly addressing public employees’ privacy rights with respect to communications via employer-issued communications devices such as pagers, cell phones and smart phones.

The NLRB intends to significantly accelerate the union election process, according to the proposed rules published today in the Federal Register.

Over the past decade, employers in almost every industry have faced an increasing number of wage and hour lawsuits.

On June 22, 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an Administrator Interpretation to clarify the definition of a "son or daughter" under the FMLA to ensure that an employee who seeks time off work to care for a child receives FMLA leave regardless of the employee’s legal or biological relationship with the child.

Senate watchers are reporting that the Senate may vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) (S. 3772) as early as this week. The House previously passed the PFA in 2009, but the law failed to clear the Senate.

The U.S. Department of Labor recently published new final regulations that increase the minimum salary level for most employees to be considered...

With the new 2024 Title IX Regulations going into effect on August 1, 2024, Franczek P.C. will offer everything your institution needs for compliance support.

Effective June 21, 2010, employers who conduct business with the federal government or who perform work essential to a federal contract now must post a notice informing their employees of their right to join a union and engage in concerted activity.

On May 23, 2024, Senate Bill 3606 ("SB 3606") passed both houses. If signed into law by Governor Pritzker, SB 3606 will amend the Children with Disabilities Article of the Illinois...

The question often arises whether the time spent "donning and doffing" clothes and personal protective equipment is compensable time. Federal courts are divided over this issue.

In "Quan v. Computer Sciences Corp.", after their employer’s stock dropped 12% in one day, a group of 401(k) plan participants sued the plan’s fiduciaries, alleging that by investing plan funds in the stock, they had breached their fiduciary duties.

As mentioned in a previous alert, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, as modified by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act ("Reconciliation Act," and combined, the "Health Care Act") prohibited group health plans and insurers from imposing preexisting condition exclusions, annual and lifetime dollar limits on benefits, and from rescinding coverage retroactively.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held yesterday that a plaintiff who does not file a timely charge challenging the adoption of a particular employment practice may nevertheless assert a disparate impact claim that challenges the employer’s subsequent application of that practice.

Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in New Process Steel, L.P.v. NLRB, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) does not have the authority to issue decisions without at least three members currently sitting on the Board.