Summer Murshid

Legal and Illegal Employer Paycheck Deductions

Permissible and Impermissible Employer Deductions from Your Paycheck It’s a common theme: your employer approaches you and says that he is deducting wages from your...

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EMPLOYERS MUST STOP SEXUAL ORIENTATION HARASSMENT

In case there was any doubt, it is now clearly the law that an employer may not allow co-workers to harass an employee on the...

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JUST BECAUSE YOUR BOSS SAYS YOU’RE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR DOESN’T MEAN IT’S TRUE….

Independent Contractors and the Economic Realities Test QUESTION: What do exotic dancers, construction workers, chefs, nurses, security agents, railroad car loaders, bus drivers, cable installers,...

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AURORA SECURITY OFFICERS SETTLE MEAL BREAK DEDUCTION SUIT

Attorneys William Parsons, Lynn Novotnak, David Zoeller, and Summer Murshid, on behalf of a group of 220 Aurora Health Care security officers, filed for preliminary...

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UNIONS CHALLENGE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LAW

Hawks Quindel attorneys, working in coalition with other union attorneys, are representing tens of thousands of public sector workers in a lawsuit against Governor Walker...

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WHAT THE BUDGET BILL MEANS FOR YOU: A POINT BY POINT BREAKDOWN OF THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF GOVERNOR WALKER’S BUDGET PROPOSAL ON PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS IN WISCONSIN

Click here to read the analysis of the bill. [PDF 116KB]

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MURSHID & YANG ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF THE ACLUS

Summer Murshid and Kashoua Yang have been elected to the Board of the Milwaukee Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Since 1920, the ACLU...

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HAWKS QUINDEL, S.C. FILES MEAL PERIOD CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT AGAINST AURORA HEALTH CARE, INC.

A class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin alleges that Aurora Health Care, Inc., a company with health care facilities throughout Southeastern...

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PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ PURELY PERSONAL EMAILS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO WISCONSIN PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS

On July 16, 2010, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District, 2010 WI 86, that purely personal emails of public...

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