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On November 14, 2014, an Aetna Inc. employee filed a collective action overtime lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut to recover unpaid overtime wages from her employer. Aetna is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health...
Over 32 million people have viewed a video posted on YouTube last week that shows the catcalls and comments that one woman received when she walked around New York City while being videotaped from a camera hidden in a colleague's backpack. In the period of ten hours,...
Disaster unemployment assistance is now available to residents of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne Counties who lost out on wages due to flooding in August. Federal funding through FEMA is available for up to 26 weeks of benefits for people who don't otherwise qualify for...
Let's talk about what whistleblowers can do to improve respect for basic human rights in our global supply chain. Fighting for "human rights" means fighting for basic labor rights to a minimum wage, overtime pay, fair and safe working conditions, and an end to child...
A University of Michigan police officer filed a whistleblower lawsuit, alleging he was passed over for promotion, and then demoted, because he raised various good faith concerns about work issues, including whether the department had improperly purchased unsafe...
Washtenaw Community College discriminated against Female Candidate in violation of State and Federal Law, lawsuit alleges. A new lawsuit filed against WCC this week in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan alleges the College intentionally...
Nacht Law filed a disability discrimination claim in Oakland County Circuit alleging disability discrimination committed by a private religious high school (Notre Dame Prep) for refusing to admit a learning disabled student. The school responded by filing a motion to...
Nick Roumel and Ned Macey won a recent victory in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, representing the plaintiff in the case of Gholston vs. Wayne County Airport Authority, et al. Maurice Gholston, an employee of the airport McDonald's, was engaged in a good-faith...
The scope of retaliation protection for whistleblowers alleging government fraud has always been a hard fought issue. The battle has only become more heated since the retaliation provisions of the False Claims Act were amended in 2009. Even though congress' clear...
Supreme Court unanimously affirms the First Amendment protects public employees from workplace retaliation for providing testimony or participating in workplace investigations. It's counterintuitive, but public employee whistleblowers (particularly state employees)...