Anxious You Might Lose Your Job? Four Steps to Take to Protect Your Employment
4 Steps Toward Protecting Your Employment and/or Bolstering a Wrongful Termination Case Employees often seek our counsel when the prospects of saving their jobs are dim or dire. Employees describe in painful terms the anxiety they feel about going to work and the...
Equal Pay Act Claims in Wisconsin: Gender-Based Wage Gap Disproportionately Affects Women
The National Partnership for Woman and Families recently released a report which found women in the United States are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to a yearly wage gap of $10,762 between full-time working men and women. In Wisconsin, the study...
Happy Labor Day!? 7th Circuit Upholds NLRB Ruling Against Anti-Union Activity by AutoNation
On the Friday before Labor Day weekend, the Seventh Circuit upheld a National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruling that AutoNation Inc., the largest automotive retailer in the U.S., violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) when its then-associate general...