Tag Archives: Fair Labor Standards Act

Department of More Sick Shits versus children

I’d picked up horrifying news about how businesses have been greedily regressing to the 19th century, a time when child labor was just ducky. Today, this in the New York Times. I have no capacity for language about this gut-tearing … Continue reading

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Law firms can bill for unpaid interns’ work? Yugh

New York State Bar Ethics Panel Approves Practice of Law Firms Billing for Work by Unpaid Interns Joel Stashenko, New York Law Journal August 18, 2016    A New York State Bar Association ethics committee’s opinion approving the practice of … Continue reading

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Class action bitch from a Supreme Court justice, but…

Thousands of workers at an Iowa pork processing plant are seeking to band together in a single lawsuit seeking overtime pay. Source: Supreme Court Hears Tyson Foods Class-Action Labor Case – The New York Times Adam Liptak begins this article: … Continue reading

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