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How do I prove a race discrimination case against my employer? A claim for race discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 can be established in two different ways, either through direct or indirect evidence. Race discrimination can be proved by...
What laws require employers to accommodate disabled employees? The Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to employees with a disability or serious medical condition that will all the employee to perform the...
As always when dealing with employment laws, the answer is maybe. It depends on the facts regarding the travel in question. This answer may be less than satisfying, but we can start with the presumption that under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and Ohio Minimum...
As our employment discrimination lawyers have blogged about, complaints of discrimination and/or harassment will not likely save a bad employee from being fired. Today, we look at the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit case Corkrean v. Drake...
Today, we consider the recent United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit case, Williams v. Fed. Express Corp, No. 22-2014, 2022 WL 17580657, at *1 (3d Cir. Dec. 12, 2022). Lori Williams, an African American female, had been working at FedEx since 1995, when...
The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is the federal law that requires employers to pay non-exempt employees minimum wage and overtime at time and a half the regular rate. Today, our wage and hour lawyers are going to focus the antiretaliation provision of the FLSA...
Just before Christmas, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit gifted employees a great wage and hour opinion in the case of Walsh v. KDE Equine, LLC, No. 21-5054, 2022 WL 17843720 (6th Cir. Dec. 22, 2022). In Walsh, the Sixth Circuit, which presides...
What is the FMLA and how do I use it? The Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) is a federal law that gives eligible employees of covered employers the ability to take 12 weeks of job-protected, albeit unpaid leave for serious personal or family medical reasons. To...
Today, our wage and hour lawyers review the recent case of Ocampo v. Brown & Appel, LLC, No. 21-2579-CV, 2022 WL 17684587, at *1 (2d Cir. Dec. 15, 2022), which is an unusual case out of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. What makes this...
Today, we consider the recently decided alleged race discrimination and wrongful termination case United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Blount v. Stanley Eng’g Fastening, No. 22-5356, 2022 WL 17688036 (6th Cir. Dec. 15, 2022). In this case, the...