Category: Human Resources

Let’s be honest: nobody dreams of ending up on the wrong end of an employment lawsuit. And yet, every year, well-meaning HR teams and in-house counsel find themselves scrambling to answer the question, “Wait, how did this become a case?” Enter Andrew Lacy, Jr. — a man who spent years

A coworker allegedly groped her and threatened her on shift. Years later, she got fired not for reporting it, but for how she finally hit back. TL;DR: An EMT alleged a coworker had harassed and groped her for years but never filed a claim over it. Years later, she retaliated

A hospital tech got caught sleeping on the overnight shift. Blaming a diabetes medication for it, only after getting caught, didn’t turn her firing into disability discrimination. TL;DR: An imaging technologist was fired for sleeping during her overnight shift and sued for disability discrimination and interference with medical leave. She

Answering a page takes fifteen seconds. Making the follow-up call can quietly turn your commute into paid time. TL;DR: A companion DOL opinion letter addresses a field service engineer’s pre-shift routine: receiving pages, calling clients to schedule appointments, and driving to the first job site. WHD concluded that receiving pages

Your office staff want to skip rush hour by working part of the day from home. The DOL just told you exactly how to let them do it without creating a wage and hour problem. TL;DR: A new DOL opinion letter addresses whether letting non-exempt office employees split their workday