Where a company placed its vice president for enterprise sales on unpaid administrative leave, it was not required to pay her salary and commissions. She was not providing any “services” to the company as she had unilaterally taken unauthorized PTO. ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a nurse who was discharged for not providing proof of vaccination or obtaining a religious or medical exemption sued the University of Virginia, her claims were dismissed. UVA’s policy is related to the government interest in preventing COVID-19 from ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Norman K. Moon U.S. District Court - Western District

Where the parties moved to settle the suit alleging that pizza delivery drivers were not paid overtime and the record showed that the collective-action plaintiffs all held the same job, were subject to the same overtime pay calculation, liability was ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a federal employee claimed his suit challenging the Drug Enforcement Agency, or DEA’s, failure to select him for any of the GS-15 positions for which he applied was a “mixed case” under the law, but guidance from prior cases ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Employment Judge Stephanie Dawn Thacker

Where appellant argues the Virginia Employment Commission wrongful denied him unemployment benefits after erroneously concluding that he was discharged for misconduct, the merits of most of his 30 assignments of error cannot be reached either because he has not adequately ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Richard Y. AtLee Jr. Virginia Court of Appeals

Where employees showed that the defendants’ conduct may have violated the meal break rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, a conditional class was certified. Because the evidence was insufficient to justify conditional certification of a nationwide collective, ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Mark S. Davis U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the named plaintiffs presented evidence that the time rounding and pre-shift activity policies were employed nationwide, the conditionally certified class was expanded from a Virginia-based class to a nationwide class. Background The plaintiffs filed this collective and class action, ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a veterinarian spoke with media outlets about how her employer was allegedly treating dogs trained to help law enforcement agencies detect explosives, and the company alleged her disclosures breached her non-disclosure agreement, or NDA, and caused the company “financial ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Thomas T. Cullen U.S. District Court - Western District

Where a former investigator for the Office of the Inspector General, or OSIG, alleged that she acted in good faith as a whistleblower by releasing OSIG reports to the General Assembly, the FBI and a Richmond police officer, and that ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a distributor of Pepperidge Farm products alleged that Pepperidge Farm exercised significant control and oversight over him, that control caused him to have virtually no opportunity for profit and loss, that the long-term job required no special skill, that ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge Henry E. Hudson U.S. District Court - Eastern District