by Kyle Barton | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog Posts, Employment Law, FLSA, Wages and Hours
Last night, President Obama unveiled a plan that could give as many as five million Americans overtime pay that they would otherwise be ineligible for under current law. The Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) currently exempts some employees from overtime if they...
by Kyle Barton | Jun 25, 2015 | Benefits, Blog Posts, Employment Law, United States Supreme Court
After a battle in 2012 to invalidate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as unconstitutional, the controversial law has survived another attack. The United States Supreme Court held today that the ACA, also known as Obamacare, remains unaffected by a linguistic error within...
by Kyle Barton | Jun 25, 2015 | ADA, Blog Posts, Colorado Law, Disability, Discrimination, Employment Law
Despite being the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, Colorado took a different turn when its Supreme Court held that employees can be terminated for consuming marijuana, even for prescribed medical purposes. Colorado resident Brandon Coats began his...
by Kyle Barton | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog Posts, Discrimination, Employment Law, Hiring, Human Resources, Religion, United States Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court held this month that employers do not actually need to know of an applicant’s religious practices to be liable for discrimination in failing to hire that applicant. The opinion in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch, 135 S.Ct. 2028 (2015) states...
by Robert Gore -- Law Clerk | Mar 25, 2015 | Blog Posts, Discrimination, Employment Law, Gender/ Sex, Pregnancy, United States Supreme Court
Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued a decision, Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., which will shape how pregnancy discrimination claims are brought. Plaintiff, Defendant, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) each offered the Court differing...
