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Party foul! NLRB orders reinstatement and back pay for party bus guide after finding Facebook postings amount to protected union organizing activity

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 16 2013

Providing yet another example of how online social networking can amount to protected conduct under the National Labor Relations Act, the NLRB ruled

“Picking off” plaintiffs in FLSA collective actions: Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Earlier this month in Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk, 133 S. Ct. 1523 (2013), the U.S. Supreme Court held that it is permissible for defendants

Three more states hop on the social media legislation bandwagon

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

So far in 2013, three states (Arkansas, New Mexico and Utah) have passed new social media legislation restricting employer access to employees and

Department of Labor clarifies when an employee may take FMLA leave to care for adult children

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

The ADA Amendments Act ("ADAAA") expanded more than just employer liability for disability claims; it also broadened the scope of FMLA leave that

Prisoner 24601 may report for duty, says the EEOC

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 17 2013

Can the EEOC require employers to hire convicted criminals? Last April, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") issued a policy

New York City passes bill treating the unemployed as a protected class

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2013

New York City has amended its Administrative Code to create a new protected class of workers. Beginning in June 2013, the New York City

Second Circuit holds no substantive right to bring a pattern-or-practice Title VII claim

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2013

Reversing a denial of a motion to compel arbitration in Parisi et al. v. Goldman, Sachs & Co. et al., the Second Circuit held that a plaintiff does

Rule 23(b) or not to be: Wang v. Chinese news the Ninth Circuit’s latest decision to reevaluate certification after Wal-Mart

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2013

The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Wang v. Chinese Daily News is the latest to affirm that Wal-Mart v. Dukes is controlling in wage-and-hour

OFCCP rescinds prior guidance on compensation discrimination analysis in favor of a case-by-case approach

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2013

Effective February 28, 2013, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") rescinded two 2006 guidance documents concerning how the

Employers beware: post-termination whistleblowing

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 6 2013

In the recent case of Onyango v. Berkeley Solicitors, the UK Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that an employee was allowed to bring a