A trucking company supervisor who told employees that if any employee did not like a newly implemented fuel surcharge, the employee “could clean out his truck,” was understood to be threatening discharge, and the 4th Circuit enforces an NLRB order ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge William B. Traxler Jr. Labor

A poultry processing plant is not required under the Fair Labor Standards Act to pay employees for “donning and doffing” protective gear, as that activity constitutes “changing clothes,” and the 4th Circuit affirms a judgment that allowed the plant to ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III Labor

In this first-impression case, a national account director for a diagnostic-instrument manufacturer who allegedly uncovered inadequate internal controls and misrepresentations to shareholders, gets a de novo proceeding of his Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case in federal district court, and the 4th Circuit ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andre M. Davis Labor

A defendant school board wins summary judgment from an Alexandria U.S. District Court in this suit by a high school golf coach, who also is employed by the school system as a security officer, seeking overtime pay under the Fair ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Labor U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Restructuring – or getting approval to reject – its contracts with nine labor unions is a key to the Chapter 11 petition filed today by The Greenbrier. That is evident in an affidvait filed in the bankruptcy by Michael McGovern, ...

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Poor English skills did not keep two Hispanic union members from being bound by their union contract’s mandatory arbitration clause for complaints of discrimination, the 4th Circuit ruled yesterday in Aleman v. Chugach Support Services (VLW 007-2-070). The two Hispanic ...

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