A candidate for governor of Maryland has introduced a new labor law proposal to her political platform that would aim at narrowing or eliminating the gap between men and women’s pay. At the moment on a national level women make 77 cents for every dollar that a man...
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Month: March 2014
Growth in telecommuting means new employment law challenges
Telecommuting, or working from home, is becoming more and more popular by the year as a way to provide employees with a more flexible work schedule and to help employers save money on office space and other resources. In fact, telecommuting has become so popular that...
Supreme Court extends employment protections for whistleblowers
The United States Supreme Court handed down an important employment law ruling last week that extends whistleblower protection to a broader range of employees. Previously whistleblower laws only protected employees at publicly traded companies under the theory that...
Court upholds termination in FMLA case
An employee of a poultry farm did not have her rights violated when her employer fired her after she did not return promptly from a trip she took to care for her ill father. The woman said that the firing was a wrongful termination because under the Family Medical...