The company operating Mo's Seafood restaurants will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit with 34 former employees who said they were underpaid.
Tagged with: employees lawsuit Mo's Seafood Settlement
Read More »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.
Tagged with: employees lawsuit Mo's Seafood Settlement
Read More »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.
Tagged with: clothing dress code employees workplace
Read More »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.
Tagged with: Department of Labor employees employers wages
Read More »May 31, 2018 Comments Off on Brian J. Markovitz: An Epic fail for workers
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.
Tagged with: arbitration employees Justice Neil Gorsuch Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Read More »May 22, 2018 Comments Off on McDonald’s workers file sex harassment claims
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.
Tagged with: employees mcdonalds sexual harassment women
Read More »May 21, 2018 Comments Off on Supreme Court says employers can bar worker class-actions
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.
Tagged with: arbitration employees employers Supreme Court unions
Read More »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.
Tagged with: employees employers house of delegates paid sick leave senate
Read More »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 owes his dancers unpaid wages because they were employees and not independent contractors -- as he had erroneously asserted -- a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
Tagged with: employees exotic dancers Fair Labor Standards Act independent contractors
Read More »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.
Tagged with: contractors employees Fair Labor Standards Act Internal Revenue Service Labor Department
Read More »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.
Tagged with: Baltimore employees meeting shareholders
Read More »Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.