Workplace Discrimination

• Wal-Mart Settles Wage and Hour Claims/FLSA Violations

  Timothy Smith | December 26, 2008 2:38 PM | 3 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  On Christmas Eve 2008, Wal-Mart agreed to settle nearly 65 state and federal class-action lawsuits filed by current and former employees. The heart of the claims made by the plaintiffs included...

• Fair Labor Standards Act Violations - getting cheated out of overtime pay.

  Timothy Smith | December 22, 2008 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsTraverse City, MI

  The Fair Labor Standards Act [FLSA] states very clearly that qualifying employees who work over 40 hours per work week are to be paid at time and one-half for that over time. Some employers have...

• Returning to Work: Getting Information About the Return to Work Process

  James Cool | December 21, 2008 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA

  With the year wrapping up, many workers are taking time off to spend with friends and families. But workers who have been injured on the job just prior to the holidays may be planning on...

• Worker Crushed To Death By Bulldozer

  Chrissie Cole | November 25, 2008 1:45 PM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  A construction worker was run over and crushed to death by a bulldozer at a construction site in northeastern Indiana, on Monday, according to police. The man, 46, of Auburn, was conversing...

• Apollo Group/University of Phoenix Online Settles Discrimination Lawsuit over Mormon Favoritism

  Mike Ferrara | November 05, 2008 4:55 PM | 7 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ

  In what is being called the largest settlement in the history of religious discrimination lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Apollo Group Inc. has agreed...

• Retaliation Must Be Taken Seriously By Employers and Employees

  Zev Antell | October 29, 2008 9:37 AM | 1 CommentRichmond, VA

  Most federal laws from which employees derive rights contain what’s called an anti-retaliation provision. Basically, these provisions provide protection of employees who have engaged in a...

• Indiana Construction Worker Killed In Accident

  Chrissie Cole | October 22, 2008 7:22 AM | 0 CommentsIndianapolis, IN

  Preliminary results from an autopsy show a 41-year-old Fort Wayne man died of blunt-force trauma to the head in a construction accident at a New Haven business. The man, an employee of Advanced...

• Palin E-mails , The Right of Privacy, and The Internet

  Rob McKinney | September 29, 2008 3:55 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  A student at the University of Tennessee is alleged to hacked into Governor Palin's emails. It also happens in divorce cases that one spouse will look at private emails as well. Tennessee has...

• Whistlblowers awarded $540,000 in punitive damages

  Will Parker | September 20, 2008 5:03 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC

  Recently, $540,000 was awarded to three former Texas Southern students who spoke out upon uncovering a financial scandal. The individuals all kicked out of school and temporarily charged with...

• Workers refused earned Compensation by local New York Grocery Store Chain

  Will Parker | September 19, 2008 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsFlorence / Myrtle Beach, SC

  A federal judge has ruled that Gristede’s, a New York based grocery shopping store violated federal and state laws by failing to pay overtime to hundreds of lower-level managers at its...