Roundup
Employment Authority: Wage Case May Expand Bias Carveout
Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how the California Supreme Court is questioning whether a ministerial exception used by religious employers in discrimination cases applies to wage and hours claims, and how some federal appellate courts are seeking to curb the reach of a longstanding test for evaluating workplace discrimination claims without U.S. Supreme Court assistance.
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RISING STAR
Rising Star: Wigdor's Meredith Firetog
By Tim Ryan
Meredith Firetog of Wigdor LLP negotiated a settlement for a Sean "Diddy" Combs accuser who became a key witness in the case that resulted in his conviction for transporting women for prostitution, earning her a spot among the employment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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DISCRIMINATION
WAGE & HOUR
Brief
Manufacturer Unistrut Hit With FLSA Suit Over OT Pay
By Melanie Dorsey
A former Unistrut International Corp. worker filed a proposed collective action in Michigan federal court on Friday accusing the metal framing system manufacturer of shortchanging thousands of hourly employees on overtime by failing to include shift differentials, bonuses and other compensation when calculating their pay.
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LABOR
BENEFITS
NONCOMPETES
WHISTLEBLOWER
EXPERT ANALYSIS
LEGAL INDUSTRY
Roundup
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Michele Gorman
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said businesses with at least 50 employees, at least half of whom are H-1B or L-1 visa holders, must pay a biometric screening fee anytime they file an application to extend the workers' visas. In the meantime, a federal judge found that the former CEO of RTI Surgical Holdings misled investors by failing to disclose that the surgical implant company regularly shipped orders early to artificially inflate its quarterly revenues. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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