Emergency Paid Sick Leave under the FFCRA
Emergency paid sick leave – Are you covered? Do you qualify? What can you get? How do you get it?
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Emergency FMLA Leave under the FFCRA
Emergency FMLA – Are you covered? Do you qualify? What can you get? How do you get it?
Food service operations manager, sues the Detroit Zoo’s concessions provider, The SSA Group
A manager at the Detroit Zoo filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging he was fired for refusing to open concession stands after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banned large gatherings of people amid the coronavirus outbreak. "Defendant in bad-faith, wrongfully, maliciously, and...
COVID-19 and Unemployment
If you become unemployed due to COVID-19, you may be eligible for Unemployment Insurance Benefits. The fastest way to apply for and receive benefits is to apply online at http://www.michigan.gov/uia. Michigan has removed the in-person work registration requirement to...
COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
COVID-19 AND THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT The ADA prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees because they are disabled. The ADA prohibits employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against employees because...
COVID-19 and the FMLA
The Federal Family and Medical Leave Act requires that employers with 50 or more employees provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave to eligible employees. You will be eligible for FMLA leave if you worked for your employer for at least a year, and have worked 1,250 hours in...
Nacht & Roumel Settle Sex Abuse Cases
Attorneys Nick Roumel and Amanda Ghannam have resolved a claim by a 9 year old girl, against a charter school academy, who reported that she was sexually harassed and assaulted at school by an older classmate. Despite complaints from the girl’s mother, the school...
Young Workers Seeking Mental Health Accommodations
One of the things we do at NachtLaw is counsel students and employees grappling with mental health disability. Increasingly, as the linked article below shows, workers are not afraid to seek accommodations. Historically, the fear of stigma prevented many employees...
Police threatening to shoot the very children they are supposed to protect at school
I read this piece in The Washington Post, ‘You’re going to get shot’: Video shows school police officer threatening student leaving campus with excused absence', today about police threatening to shoot the very children they are supposed to protect at school and I got...
Iranian Americans describe ordeal of detention at U.S.-Canada border
The Government cannot legally look for sleeper cells of potential terrorists by detaining US citizens of Iranian origin randomly without evidence giving them suspicion.