NLRB Overturns Firing Based on Facebook Post Federal Law Protects Employee Concerted Activities on Social Media In 2012, a former employee of Butler Medical Transport, in Maryland, posted on Facebook about the circumstances of her termination, contesting it was...
Jimmy John’s employees at ten franchise stores in Minnesota have been trying to organize a union and improve their working conditions. One of their key demands was paid sick leave. The employer even enforced an attendance policy that assigned points towards discipline...
HQ Attorneys Richard Saks, Michele Sumara, and Barbara Quindel advised and represented the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin in successfully pressuring the Wisconsin Elections Commission to reverse course on a needlessly strict policy that would have disenfranchised...
Hawks Quindel attorneys Michele Sumara and Richard Saks have commenced a lawsuit against a Milwaukee voucher school, Travis Academy, and its wealthy owner, Dorothy Travis-Moore, seeking payment of two months’ unpaid wages for the school’s employees at the close of the...
Hawks Quindel recently won a hard fought victory for a group of local restaurant workers claiming that they had not been paid properly under the Fair Labor Standards Act. On December 12, 2014, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Lynn...
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument for later this month, on Feb. 25th at 9:45 am in the NAACP/Voces challenge to the constitutionality of the voter ID requirement in 2011 Wisconsin Act 23. Hawks Quindel attorneys Richard Saks, Michele Sumara, and...
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