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Can an Employer Substitute Compensatory Time Off For Cash Overtime Pay?
*Updated 5/3/2017* Under the misleading title of “The Working Families Flexibility Act” (HR 1180), Congressional Republicans are proposing to allow employers to offer private sector employees...
Employers Cannot Ban Co-Workers from Discussing Pay
Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), non-supervisory private sector employees have a right to discuss their pay and other terms and conditions of employment...
Quindel Frames Future for Public Sector Unions
As the recipient of the 2014 Arvid Anderson Public Sector Labor and Employment Attorney of the Year Award, Attorney Barbara Zack Quindel delivered the keynote...
Employees Have Legal Access to Personnel Records Under Wisconsin Law
When employees seek advice about an employment action – whether a denial of promotion, unfair discipline or evaluation, or termination – it is important to...
Health Care Worker Protection Act Protects WI Workers From Employer Retaliation
Under Wisconsin’s Health Care Worker Protection Act (Wis. Stat. §146.997), an employee of a health care facility (e.g. hospital or nursing home) or health care...
COURT GRANTS INDONESIAN UNION INTERVENTION IN UW LAWSUIT TO HOLD ADIDAS ACCOUNTABLE FOR COMPENSATION OWED INDONESIAN WORKERS
Over the past several decades, many large apparel companies have “offshored” production to countries in the developing world to reduce labor costs. In the 1990’s,...
CAN I BE FIRED FOR COMPLAINING ABOUT MY BOSS TO OTHER EMPLOYEES?
Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees have the right to engage in protected “concerted activity” – whether or not they are in a union....
COURTS DELAY POSTING OF NLRB EMPLOYEE RIGHTS NOTICE – AGAIN
In earlier blogs I wrote about the NLRB’s new rule requiring most private employers to post a notice of employees’ rights under the National Labor...
NLRB POSTING WILL RAISE AWARENESS OF WORKERS’ RIGHTS
Last August, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) passed a rule requiring employers to post a notice explaining workers’ rights under federal law to act...