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9th Circuit: Salary history doesn’t justify gender gap in pay
According to the Pew Research Center, an average woman working in the United States makes about 82 cents for every dollar a male peer makes for doing the same work. Some of that pay gap can be explained by differences in choice of occupation, educational…
Supreme Court makes it harder for employees to get OT
A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court may limit the number of people eligible to receive overtime pay. In early April, the Supreme Court issued an opinion involving the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA is a federal law that requires employers to pay…
NY harassment laws change in response to #MeToo, #TimesUp
One of the most notorious revelations of sexual misconduct in the #metoo movement was the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Accused by numerous assistants, actresses, and others of sexual harassment and sexual assault, Weinstein and his associated film production companies used nondisclosure agreements to aggressively keep his…
Seizing Assets From Property With Joint Owners
Our previous post discussed some creative ways to enforce judgments (such as seizing the contents of a debtor’s safe deposit box) and alluded to the challenges of taking such actions when the account is owned jointly by the debtor and non-debtor. In this article, we…
Suit: O’Reilly’s breach of confidentiality ‘especially corrupt’
A federal judge in New York has ordered the disclosure of three confidential settlements arranged by former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. The disclosures were ordered as part of a lawsuit brought by three former Fox News and Fox Business Network employees who claim O’Reilly…
Publishers acting swiftly on books tainted by sexual harassment
“It’s a pretty tumultuous time,” one literary agent commented to the New York Times. “It’s hard to get it right all the time, but I do think people understand now that these situations are more often about power, and not about sex.” If they do,…
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