In October of 2018, we reported on a case out of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Smelter v. S. Home Care Servs., Inc., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 27248; 27 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. C 1359; __ F.3d __; 2018 WL 4560684, in which the Court held that one-time use of the word “nigger” is…
According to a Pew analysis in 2017, women earned 82 percent of what men earned, meaning it would take an extra 47 days of work for women to earn what men did. On March 4, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the Office of Management and Budget’s (“OMB”) stay of…
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its long-awaited replacement of the Obama administration’s controversial overtime rule, raising the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) “white collar” exemptions to $35,308 per year, allowing more than a million more American workers eligible for…
