Employment Law Roundup
It’s finally time to catch up on anything and everything employment law, both within our own country and abroad (or in this week’s case, on the sea). Here’s a look at some articles I am reading this week:
• Thomson Reuters Legal News: WalMart v. Duke is an employment class action case that was ruled on in June by the Supreme Court. Many believed the holdings in this case would be a game changer and that certainly seems to be the case. The suit tried to certify a class of 1.5 million former and current female WalMart employees for issues with gender discrimination. The Court ruled that this class simply did not have enough in common. Since the decision, defendants in a variety of class actions have flooded courts with motions challenging the certification of large classes of plaintiffs. 260 times to be exact.
• New York Times: The NY Times talks about the big employment law decision to come from the Supreme Court this week…religious groups are exempt from employment discrimination laws. Yes, you read that right. Religious organizations, whether it is a Church or a school can discriminate. In application, this should be a very interesting attempt at separation of Church and State.
• Bloomberg: We handle a lot of overtime pay cases. So naturally I found this story about Goldman Sachs paying computer technicians $993,841 in back overtime pay very interesting and it so happens that our firm handled that case. Workers based in New York and New Jersey sometimes worked 70 hours a week but were paid for 40 of them. Glad to see they ultimately got compensated for their time.
• Justia: Sailing meets employment law. Justia highlights a case in which a seaman working on a boat suffers disabling neck injuries. Ahoy!
Got some great articles to add? I would love to hear from you!
