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Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201, et seq. (the “FLSA”), employers must compensate employees for activities performed during the workday.  On November 8, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court issued...

Employers who are federal contractors and subcontractors are required to take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunity in their employment processes.  As part of that process, government contractors are...

On August 11, 2005, the California Supreme Court ruled that corporate directors and officers cannot be held personally liable for a company’s failure to pay wages owed to its employees. Reynolds v. Bement, 36 Cal. 4th 1075...

On August 11, 2005, the California Supreme Court ruled that an employee could state a claim for retaliation under the Fair Employment Housing Act (“FEHA”) based on the employee’s refusal to comply with a supervisor’s...

On July 18, 2005, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that supervisors’ sexual relationships with subordinates may create a hostile work environment for co-workers, even if those co-workers were not directly...

On May 17, 2005 Senior Judge Neal P. McCurn of the federal District Court for the Northern District of New York ruled that a September 2002 amendment to Section 211-a of New York’s Labor Law was preempted by Section 7...

On March 31, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an individual protected by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) (i.e., an employee, former employee, or job applicant who is age forty or older)...

On March 10, 2005, the Veterans Employment and Training Service (VETS), a division of the United States Department of Labor, released a new poster that must be displayed conspicuously in the workplace by every U.S. employer...

The Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), among other things, requires employers to obtain written authorization and disclose certain information whenever the employer uses an outside agency to conduct background...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently decided that a good-grooming rule issued by Harrah’s Casino to its employees, which requires female bartenders to wear makeup, does not violate Title VII’s...