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What does the Supreme Court’s decision in Saint-Gobain mean for employer policies and planning?
Most of the commentary on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, 563 U.S. ___ (2011), available here, has focused on the fact that the Court apparently…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
The U.S. Supreme Court Makes Life For Employers Even More Difficult — Verbal Complaints Held To Be Protected Activity Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
On March 22, 2011, the United States Supreme Court held in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., that the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) prohibits employers from retaliating against employees…
Employment Discrimination Report
Is “Temporal Proximity” Evidence of Retaliation? Post Hoc Ergo Propter!
This fancy sounding legal maxim simply refers to the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation. That is, the close or suspicious timing of two events does not…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Supreme Court Issues Ruling on Oral Complaints of Retaliation, Refuses to Clarify Where Employee Must Complain
While the US Supreme Court recently has rejected petitions for certiorari on key FLSA exemption issues, the highest court in the United States did this term elect to take up…
Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog
Supreme Court Sides With Sixth Circuit In Resolving Circuit Split Under The Fair Labor Standards Act
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Sixth Circuit and resolved one of two Circuit splits involving interpretation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 52 Stat.…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Saint-Gobain, Scalia, and Judge Judy
Apparently, the Supreme Court has still never met a retaliation case it doesn't like. In its most recent encounter with retaliation law, this time under the FLSA, the Court held that a…
Employment Law Watch
U.S. Supreme Court Finds Oral Wage Complaints Protected From Employer Retaliation
By Erin Bailey
The United States Supreme Court has held that under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the federal law that requires proper payment of wages and overtime pay, an employer cannot…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Say What? – Oral Complaints Can Trigger Anti-Retaliation Provision of the FLSA
Authored by Nadir Ahmed Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that oral complaints of a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) constitute protected activity under the FLSA’s anti-retaliation…
Employer Law Report
Supreme Court Holds That Oral Complaints Can Form the Basis for a FLSA Retaliation Suit
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employee's Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) retaliation claim can be based on an oral complaint made by the employee to his employer…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Oral Complaints under FLSA are Shielded from Retaliation, Supreme Court Rules; Impact in Connecticut?
For anyone who has been following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions interpreting wage & hour, discrimination and retaliation claims, yesterday's decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (download here), can…