Category Archives: Employment Law
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT – ELEVENTH CIRCUIT RULES THAT TITLE VII DOES NOT PROHIBIT SEXUAL ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION
Earlier this month, the Eleventh Circuit held that Title VII does not prohibit discrimination in the workplace on the basis of sexual orientation. Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital. Thus, the lower federal courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama will have to follow suit. In the Evans matter, the plaintiff, a female hospital guard, brought… Read More »
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: FEDERAL JUDGE HALTS OVERTIME RULE
We last advised you that the Department of Labor’s final Rule updating the overtime regulations was to take effect on December 1, 2016. The overtime rule would have raised the salary threshold from $23,660 to $47,476 a year. However, just 10 days before the implementation date, a federal judge in Texas issued a preliminary… Read More »
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: FINAL OVERTIME RULES
KEY PROVISIONS OF THE FINAL RULES: On May 18, 2016, President Obama announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s final rule updating the overtime regulations. The new Regs will automatically extend overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within the first year of implementation. Key provisions are: The threshold income level at… Read More »
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: Final Overtime Rules
KEY PROVISIONS OF THE FINAL RULES: On May 18, 2016, President Obama announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s final rule updating the overtime regulations. The new Regs will automatically extend overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within the first year of implementation. Key provisions are: The threshold income level at… Read More »
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: New Rules Expected for Overtime Pay
NEW PROPOSAL: President Obama has announced that the White House is raising the threshold income level at which workers are exempt from overtime pay of time-and-a-half wages. The level is currently $23,360 a year. The new level is expected to be $50,400.00 a year. CURRENTLY: Under current rules, workers are not eligible for overtime… Read More »
EMPLOYMENT LAW ALERT: US Supreme Court Finds Abercrombie & Fitch Discriminated Against Muslim Woman Because She Wore a Head Scarf
The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision (with Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting) found that Abercrombie & Fitch discriminated against a Muslim job applicant when she interviewed in a hijab (head scarf) and was denied employment. Abercrombie & Fitch argued that Samantha Elauf never advised the interviewer that she wore the hijab for religious… Read More »
