March 26 2013
In Paridon v. Trumbull County Children's Services Board, the Ohio Court of Appeals upheld the Trumbull County Children's Services Board (Board)…
October 24 2012
As mentioned in a recent FR alert, “Time Off to Vote?,” written by my colleague Sally J. Scott, Illinois requires employers to allow employees who are eligible to vote up to two hours of paid time off while polls are open (from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.) on Election Day.
April 23 2013
In a recent decision, the first federal appellate court to address the rights of school officials to search student cell phones held that a student's…
February 1 2016
Over the last few months we've been asked on an almost daily basis when the DOL will be publishing its hotly anticipated white collar exemption rules…
May 1 2018
On Monday, April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark decision establishing the presumption that a worker is an employee in that…
April 16 2018
On April 12, the Assistant Attorney General (“AAG”) at the Public Access Bureau issued a letter finding that a School District did not violate the…
April 16 2018
Last June, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it would again issue opinion letters to assist employers and employees in interpreting laws…
April 13 2018
As mentioned previously here last summer, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division has brought back the Opinion Letter, the process…
April 12 2018
On Monday, April 9, 2018, the day before Equal Pay Day, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that employers cannot use an employee’s past salary to…