Mo’s Seafood to pay $1M to workers who sued over pay

October 16, 2018 Comments Off on Mo’s Seafood to pay $1M to workers who sued over pay

The company operating Mo's Seafood restaurants will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit with 34 former employees who said they were underpaid.

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Laura L. Rubenstein: Should you tell employees how to dress for work?

October 3, 2018 Comments Off on Laura L. Rubenstein: Should you tell employees how to dress for work?

Employers are all over the map in what they consider acceptable workplace attire, even companies in the same industry.

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New DOL opinion letters offer employers guidance

September 25, 2018 Comments Off on New DOL opinion letters offer employers guidance

After nearly a 10-year hiatus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently issued three formal opinion letters, setting forth its views on various wage-and-hour issues addressed to the WHD by interested parties.

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Brian J. Markovitz: An Epic fail for workers

May 31, 2018 Comments Off on Brian J. Markovitz: An Epic fail for workers

FILE - In this April 4, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington. In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political. A dispute over Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn boundaries for the state legislature offers Democrats some hope of cutting into GOP electoral majorities across the United States.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The power of class actions took a major blow earlier this month as the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that arbitration agreements banning class actions for employees are enforceable.

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McDonald’s workers file sex harassment claims

May 22, 2018 Comments Off on McDonald’s workers file sex harassment claims

McDonald's workers and supporters rally outside a McDonald's in Chicago in April 2015. Fight for $15 announced Tuesday it’s helping women in several U.S. cities to file complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging they experienced sexual harassment while working at McDonald’s. (M. Spencer Green/AP file photo)

Energized by the #MeToo movement, two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual harassment complaints against McDonald's on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fast food restaurant in nine cities.

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Supreme Court says employers can bar worker class-actions

May 21, 2018 Comments Off on Supreme Court says employers can bar worker class-actions

File- This Sept. 28, 2017, file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaking at the 50th anniversary of the Fund for America Studies luncheon at the Trump Hotel in Washington. Gorsuch stressed the need for civil discourse in a speech to college students in which he also delved into his judicial philosophy. Gorsuch spoke to students and invited guests at Stockton University in southern New Jersey on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. The Supreme Court’s newest justice also drew chuckles with his impression of former Justice Byron White and with his characterizations of the rituals of being a new justice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims.

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Paid sick leave delay passes Senate, faces dim future

February 8, 2018 Comments Off on Paid sick leave delay passes Senate, faces dim future

A bill to delay the implementation and enforcement of the controversial paid sick leave law faces a dim future after passing the Senate on Thursday.

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4th Circuit: Exotic dancers in Prince George’s Co. are employees

June 8, 2016 Comments Off on 4th Circuit: Exotic dancers in Prince George’s Co. are employees

The owner of two Prince George’s County strip clubs exercised such control over dancers’ work schedules and job duties that the relationship bore ‘little resemblance to the latitude normally afforded independent contractors,’ a federal appellate panel in finding the dancers were employees and entitled to unpaid wages. (Thinkstock)

The owner of two Prince George’s County strip clubs owes his dancers unpaid wages because they were employees and not independent contractors -- as he had erroneously asserted -- a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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U.S. Labor Department updates position on contract workers

July 16, 2015 Comments Off on U.S. Labor Department updates position on contract workers

The Department of Labor has weighed in on when to classify workers as employees and independent contractors, issuing a 15-page memo with new interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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McCormick & Co. retirement offer affects mainly Baltimore area

March 25, 2015 Comments Off on McCormick & Co. retirement offer affects mainly Baltimore area

The retirement offer affected about 5 percent of the Sparks-based company's U.S. workforce.

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