Paid out for Retirement

August 25, 2014 Legal Team
McLean v. State of California (2014), Cal.App.4th, No. C074515, decided on August 19, 2014, that a class action could proceed for waiting time penalties under Labor Code section 203 for the employer's failure to pay retirees their final wages at the time they retired.  Pursuant to Labor Code section 202, employers have to pay...
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Quarrelling Lovers’ Unstable Behavior Not Enough to Warrant Employer’s Demand for Medical Examination

August 22, 2014 Legal Team
White Lake Ambulance Authority, in fair Michigan, where we lay our scene. The tiffs between two Emergency Medical Technicians, one married, and one not stirred up action in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.Emily Kroll was apparently infatuated with her coworker Joshua Easton, who was married. The pair frequently quarreled in person, via e-mail,...
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When Ignoring Sexual Harassment Turns Deadly

August 18, 2014 Legal Team
Alisha Bromfield worked as a flower arranger for Grand Flower Growers. Often, she was assigned to make arrangements at a local Home Depot store in Cook County, Illinois. Bromfield, 21, was sexually harassed by her supervisor, Bryan Cooper, but no matter how many times she reported it to both Grand Flower Growers and Home...
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Employees Launch Lawsuits Against Spacex

August 15, 2014 Legal Team
SpaceX has made plenty of headlines for creating its high-tech replacement for the retired NASA space shuttles and lots of other space innovations. It has already flown supply missions to the International Space Station several times and may carry astronauts as early as next year.Lately, however, SpaceX has found itself in the headlines for different...
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Sex and Science

August 13, 2014 Legal Team
Although sexual harassment is not as much of a problem as it used to be, it is still found in many professions, some of them very surprising.  The last group of people you would worry about would probably be “science nerds.”While most people think of scientists as smart, professional, and trustworthy, it turns out...
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