Michigan Employment Law Blog

A salesperson with a job duty involving “outside sales” who is not compensated for overtime pay by the employer should be advised that the United States Sixth Circuit Court has recently clarified that overtime should indeed be paid under circumstances where the...

There is a big difference between political belief in the abstract and legal and career consequences   Many professors support the notion of rules that prohibit the creation of a hostile environment on campus.  But when humorless bureaucrats interpret such policies to...

As fall approaches, there is a great deal of uncertainty about whether Michigan Universities, Colleges,  and Secondary Schools are going to require teachers and other employees to return to in-person classes and work. And many employees have already returned to...

Many Americans are critical of labor unions.  They see unions as organizations that keep bad employees on the job.  Or they see them as controlling who gets on the job at all. We can and do dispute those characterizations. But what most Americans forget is that in...

NachtLaw obtained an important opinion for a Wayne State University Professor continuing NachtLaw’s string of victories for professors and students at universities in Michigan (prior successful opinions in the last 18 months  include cases concerning  University...

We have criminalized the failure to pay civil infraction tickets, such as parking or speeding or driving with a busted tail light.  How?  We suspend driver’s licenses for these folks, and then we charge them with the misdemeanor of driving on a suspended license. As I...

I have blogged before about the tremendous drop in crime In the past 20 years but the never dropping fear of crime by Americans.  In this thoughtful piece of cultural criticism, the TV critic, James Poniewozik, for the New York Times blames television police and crime...

In my last blog, I expressed concern about the tendency of a few on the Left to embrace violence to property.  However, as this piece makes clear, the much more significant danger to the Republic from domestic terrorism lies on the Right, in which a merger of...

Don’t lose faith in the law.  Who is Obi-Wan and who is Darth Vader?  How do we know when we cross from good to evil?  In this very sad case, two promising young lawyers are accused of violent acts. It is easy to lose faith in the law, and the ability of the people to...

On June 13, 2020, Ann Arbor civil rights lawyer David Nacht released language that he has proposed to Michigan legislators to combat police misconduct.  Nacht, who previously served as a legislative aide to US Senator John Glenn, wants to turn the public conversation...