Posts in February, 2014

Executive Order Raises Minimum Wage of Some Federal Contract Employees Feb 28

This month, President Obama issued an executive order that would increase the minimum wage for federal contract employees from the ...

US Supreme Court Declines to Hear Racial Discrimination Case, Baker & McKenzie LLP Feb 21

The United States Supreme Court recently declined an attempt to revive a race bias retaliation lawsuit against the law firm, Baker ...

Sixth Circuit Finds Involuntary Transfer an Adverse Employment Action Feb 14

Not long ago, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals determined in Deleon v. Kalamazoo County Road Commission that a job transfer ...

U.S. Supreme Court Rules That Indiana Steel Mill Employees Cannot Be Paid for Time Spent Donning and Doffing Equipment in Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Feb 07

Indiana steelworkers were on the losing end of a recent United States Supreme Court decision in the case Sandifer v. U.S. Steel . ...