by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Sep 13, 2017 | Barbara Zack Quindel, Employment Law, Labor Law, Michele Sumara
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...
by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Jan 3, 2017 | Barbara Zack Quindel, Labor Law, Michele Sumara
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...
by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Oct 20, 2016 | Barbara Zack Quindel, Firm News, Michele Sumara, News and Victories, Richard Saks
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...
by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Aug 23, 2016 | Firm News, Michele Sumara, News and Victories, Richard Saks, Wage and Hour Law
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...
by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Dec 19, 2014 | Firm News, Larry Johnson, Michele Sumara, News and Victories, Summer Murshid, Timothy Maynard, Wage and Hour Law
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...
by Hawks Quindel, S.C. | Feb 5, 2014 | Firm News, Jeffrey Sweetland, Michele Sumara, News and Victories, Richard Saks
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...
