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Employment Law

Puzder hearings postponed

01/12/2017
Hearings to confirm fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as the Trump administration’s Secretary of Labor may not occur until February.

Granting religious accommodations, preventing bias claims

01/11/2017
An employer may face litigation either for failing to promptly respond to a discrimination claim or for overreacting to one.

NY labor law 2017: Exempt salaries, past pay, police liability

01/11/2017
This month brings timely reminders for busy employers that may have missed important new announcements.

Nursing homes misclassified staff, owe $2M in back pay

01/11/2017
Grand Healthcare System, headquartered in Queens, will pay $2,006,796  to 844 employees in five locations after the company improperly classified the employees as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Banquet hall dishes more than $300K in back pay, penalties

01/11/2017
An Indian restaurant and banquet hall in Garden City, N.Y., will pay $285,800 in back wages and liquidated damages to 24 workers to resolve allegations it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.

United Nations is immune from Title VII

01/11/2017
In a decision sought by the United States government, the Secretary General of the United Nations has been found immune from lawsuits over employment discrimination.

Equal discipline key to survive sex bias claims

01/11/2017
Employers rarely lose sex discrimination lawsuits if they can show that everyone who broke the same rule received the same punishment.

Employee representing herself? Document all parts of settlement process

01/11/2017
Carefully document the settlement process. Be able to prove you suggested having the employee ask a real attorney to review the proposed settlement.

Actions that make employees feel bad aren’t necessarily ‘adverse’ under the law

01/11/2017
Employees who claim their employers discriminated against them must show that the alleged action was “adverse,” not merely uncomfortable, inconvenient or even unfair.

Court: Participation in training doesn’t establish pay for EPA purposes

01/11/2017
Participating in a training program doesn’t mean an employee can win an Equal Pay Act claim by arguing some participants—who essentially undergo very similar training—are paid more for comparable work.