Lisa A. MilamBlog Posts
Virginia’s new overtime law authorizes collective actionsVirginia employers are at increased risk of class action wage litigation following passage of the Virginia Overtime Wage Act. “Previously, Virginia had been content to rely on the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA),” note Kristina H. Vaquera and Shaun M. Bennett in a recent Jackson Lewis legal alert discussing the...… Continue ReadingApril 12, 2021 |
ADA Does Not Require Websites Be Accessible, Appeals Court HoldsA website is not a “place of public accommodation” within the meaning of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a federal appeals court has held in a groundbreaking decision on disability discrimination. And an inaccessible website is not necessarily equal to the denial of goods or services. Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., No....… Continue ReadingApril 9, 2021 |
Four Ways Manufacturing Employers Can Reduce Risk of Class Action LitigationHow can manufacturing employers reduce the prospect of costly wage and hour class and collective actions? In this legal update, James M. Stone, head of Jackson Lewis P.C.’s Manufacturing Industry Group, and Eric J. Gitig, an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles, California, office, offer guidance to minimize the risk of class litigation, particularly for...… Continue ReadingDecember 14, 2020 |
Workplace Law Under a Biden AdministrationAs President-elect Joe Biden selects members of his Cabinet and prepares for his transition into the presidency, he and a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives may pursue a number of significant pieces of federal workplace legislation. Many of these employment law measures successfully passed the House in 2019 and 2020. And, with the...… Continue ReadingNovember 10, 2020 |
Hacked Healthcare Provider Refuses to Pay Ransom, Attackers Target Psychotherapy PatientsFrom Finland — by way of our Jackson Lewis Workplace Privacy, Data Management, and Security Report blog — comes the story of a healthcare provider whose refusal to pay a ransom to cyberattackers resulted in a particularly disturbing compromise of customer data: the threat of public disclosure of patient psychotherapy records. “This incident reveals a...… Continue ReadingOctober 28, 2020 |