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Exceptional Legal Counsel in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.
Contact Our Firm Today: 301-850-1246
As we previously blogged, employers are obligated under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFRCA) to provide employees up to two weeks (80 hours) of paid sick leave and up to 12 additional weeks of paid, expanded family and medical leave to an employee whose...
COVID-19 has made 2020 an undeniably hard year for employees. Luckily, the Maryland legislature recently passed 4 new pro-employee laws that will go into effect on October 1, 2020. Mandatory Mini-WARN Act As I previously blogged, the federal WARN Act requires that...
Your company has an opening and you want to upload a job posting that reads: "Applicants should have no more than 7 years of experience." But you wonder: could this be a form of discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)? The Supreme Court...
2019 saw at least ten multimillion-dollar private class action settlements in the wage-and-hour law arena, along with a couple of multimillion-dollar government settlements. While several of the largest settlements involved California, wage-and-hour cases appear to be...
Over one-third of employees report having been romantically linked to a co-worker, so while an outright ban on office romances might seem like an easy fix, it is naïve. With Valentine's Day right around the corner, love is in the air, so there is no better time to...
The Me Too Movement takes its name from the phrase created a decade ago by civil rights activist Tarana Burke and popularized by Alyssa Milano when she encouraged women to tweet it to "give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem." Since October 2017, #MeToo...
Under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), employers cannot fire, refuse to hire or otherwise discriminate against employees because of their age. But, if you were to dig a little deeper into the ADEA, you would quickly find that it actually only...
Employers are required to pay all employees time-and-a-half once they hit 40 hours in a given workweek, right? Well, not necessarily. In fact, both federal and Maryland law carve out several exceptions to the overtime rules, including situations involving certain...
is proud to announce that its Managing Partner, Linda Hitt Thatcher, has been recognized as a 2019 Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters. Only five percent of attorneys receive this honor. Ms. Thatcher has also consistently been named a top...
Yesterday, WMAL Radio (105.9PM/630AM) featured Linda Hitt Thatcher, Managing Partner of , who discussed the latest sexual harassment allegations made against public figures. You can listen below: WMAL-Linda Hitt Thatcher On Sexual...