9th Circuit Rules Using Salary History to Set Pay May Violate Equal Pay Act

A court for the first time this week has held that using pay history as a basis to set salaries may violate the Equal Pay Act. In the c...

DOL Says Short Breaks Taken Under FMLA Are Not Compensable

Throughout most of the Obama administration the Department of Labor stopped issuing Opinion Letters on day to day questions of employers a...

Overly Broad Employer Confidentiality Policies Could Be Illegal

A common defense that employers often use against harassment claims is that they exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct the har...

Unqualified Officer Has No Property Interest in Promotion

As readers might be aware, some public sector employees have a “property interest” in their position. A property interest is generally gain...

Woman Who “Flipped Off” the President Re-Ignites Her Story By Filing Suit

Remember the employee of the government contractor that impulsively “flipped off” President Trump’s motorcade, which was caught on camera b...