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Employment – FLSA — retaliation
12-1671 Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.
Employment – FLSA — attorney fees
2012AP416 In the Matter of the Attorney Fees in Lamb v. The New Horizon Center Inc.
10-3009 Verkuilen v. MediaBank, LLC
Employment FLSA; overtime An account manager for a software company is not entitled to overtime. “The account manager is not a salesman for Best Buy or a technician sitting at a phone bank fielding random calls from her employer’s customers—instead she’s on the customer’s speed dial during the testing and operation of the customer’s MediaBank […]
09-834 Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.
Employment FLSA; retaliation The scope of statutory term “filed any complaint” in the Fair Labor Standards Act includes oral, as well as written, complaints. A narrow interpretation would undermine the Act’s basic objective, which is to prohibit “labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general […]
09-3029 Ervin v. OS Restaurant Services, Inc.
Employment FLSA; class actions Employees who institute a collective action against their employer under the terms of the FLSA may at the same time litigate supplemental state-law claims as a class action certified according to FRCP 23(b)(3). “We conclude that there is no categorical rule against certifying a Rule 23(b)(3) state-law class action in a […]
Court takes up verbal complaints question
Washington - The Fair Labor Standards Act protects workers who complain about workplace conditions from facing retaliation from their supervisors. But do those protections apply when the employee protests verbally, as opposed to filing a written complaint?
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