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Retaliation
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Geneva Illinois Law Blog
Filing a Wrongful Termination Lawsuit: What to Expect in Illinois
Being suddenly unemployed is a stressful time. For some people, getting fired from their jobs comes as a surprise, and they’re left with questions, especially if they didn’t feel the…
Workforce Bulletin
<em>Video:</em> CA COVID-19 Policies Get Updates, NYC Pay Transparency Law Postponed, DOL Targets Worker Retaliation – <em>Employment Law This Week</em>
As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we look at updated regulations in California and New York City and at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). California Employers Update COVID-19 Policies…
Levy Employment Law Blog
WHD Guidance Highlights Retaliation Protections and Enforcement
By Tracey Levy
By Tracey I. Levy Retaliation is a thorny problem. There are a multitude of laws at the federal, state and local level that are intended to protect employees’ rights in…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Don’t file criminal charges against employees who’ve engaged in protected activity
Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge." Employment, however, is no place for revenge. Consider, for example,…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
U.S. Department of Labor Issues Field Assistance Bulletin on “Protecting Workers from Retaliation”
By Jeffrey (Jeff) H. Ruzal, Gregory (Greg) Keating, Anastasia A. Regne
The Biden Administration continues to increase administrative agency enforcement initiatives. In a recent press release, the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) announced that it now…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Bar None: Retaliation Violates Anti-Discrimination Laws
“Was that on purpose?” a lawyer at the firm where I worked asked me more than twenty years ago when I disclosed that I was pregnant with my first child.…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
New Emphasis by USDOL On Retaliation: This Is the Hottest Form Of Claimed Discrimination-Employers Need Be Mindful
It seems that allegations of different types of discrimination or employer wrongdoing run in cycles. There was a time when we saw that claims of racial and ethnic discrimination were…
Employment Law Legal Research Blog
Love in the Time of COVID-19
By sbaileynlrg-com-suzanne-l-bailey
Suzanne L. Bailey—Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group The COVID-19 pandemic has been a fertile source of new litigation: challenges to mask mandates, challenges to vaccine mandates, construction of…
Employment Law Worldview
DOL Issues New Guidance, Specific Examples of Prohibited Retaliation Under WHD-Enforced Wage & Hour Laws (US)
On March 10, 2022, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) entitled “Protecting Workers from Retaliation.” The FAB…
Law and the Workplace
Sweeping Expansion of Protections Relating to Workplace Discrimination on the Horizon in New York State
By Allan Bloom, Evandro Gigante, Laura Fant
A suite of bills aimed at further enhancing protections for both employees and independent contractors regarding discrimination, harassment and retaliation in the workplace are on the horizon in New York…