Traditionally, an adverse employment action—getting disciplined or fired, being denied a raise or promotion, for example—has been a necessary part of a discrimination case. But in the area of disability discrimination, state and federal courts around the country have differed about whether an employee who has been denied a disability […]
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05
Sep
2021
Failure to Accommodate Disability = Liability
09
Apr
2019
$300 Wage Dispute Leads to $66K Fee Award
You can’t make this up: A lawyer who disputed an employee’s $303 unpaid wage claim has been ordered to pay the employee’s lawyer $66,510 in attorney’s fees. Stratton v. Beck, 30 Cal. App. 5th 901 (2018) began when attorney Thomas E. Beck’s employee of two months, Anthony Stratton, quit and […]
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05
Sep
2018
Hot Off The Press! New FMLA Forms Now Available!
I know it’s been on your mind: When will the Department of Labor finally issue the new FMLA forms? The old ones expired at the end of May, and we’ve been getting along with month-to-month extensions on the old forms. Well, you can put your mind at ease: The new […]
Read moreTo help businesses comply with the more than 100 wage, safety, and benefits laws handled by the Department of Labor, the DOL has created the Office of Compliance Initiatives. The OCI will work with the DOL’s various agencies (OSHA, Wage and Hour Division, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, etc.) […]
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16
Apr
2018
