Massachusetts Employment Law Blog

The California Supreme Court defined some parameters of employment law regulations when it ruled in favor of an illegal immigrant/undocumented worker who sued an employer for an unlawful firing.  The employer tried to argue that the fact the worker was undocumented was a form of misconduct that justified the termination, but the Court was not swayed.…

Two crucial pieces of proposed legislation will be decided by July 31st.  The proposals include a hike in the minimum wage to $11.00 and a ban on noncompete agreements. Both proposals are great news for employees. If the legislation for the new minimum wage passes, then by January 1, 2017 the minimum wage in Massachusetts…

One of Gordon Law Group’s clients, Harvard professor Dr. Kimberly Theidon, was featured in The Boston Globe this morning. The piece is the latest in a slew of articles and interviews about the Professor, who was denied tenure last spring. Theidon will now take a tenured faculty position at Tufts University. Dr. Theidon has brought Title IX…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) appears to be on the verge of issuing new guidelines on pregnancy discrimination. Following a large and rapidly increasing number of lawsuits centering around pregnancy bias, the EEOC seems poised to take action following comments made by Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. The EEOC would seek to…

Online current affairs magazine Slate, recently turned to Gordon Law Group attorney Philip Gordon to provide legal guidance in its advice column, Dear Prudence. In the column, a reader was concerned that if she told her boss she was enrolling in graduate school, he would fire her and leave her without a job in the…

Employees in Colorado will have increased rights under the state’s Wage Protection Act of 2014. The law has been expanded to give the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) more power to pursue wage claims on behalf of the employee. The new law also includes the expansion of the state’s wage payment law to…

Per Diem payments – payments intended to cover the daily expenses of an employee – count towards an employee’s regular rate of pay for calculating overtime according to the First Circuit. In Newman v. Advanced Technology Innovation Corp., the First Circuit found that if an employer calculates per diem on an hourly basis, then it…

An employee fired just days after coming back from medical leave, has won over $100,000 as well as attorneys’ fees and costs. By firing the employee, the employer violated the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that says that you cannot fire an employee on FMLA leave without a legitimate reason. The timing of…

Philip Gordon recently appeared on MSNBC’s show Ronan Farrow Daily, alongside Dr. Kimberly Theidon of Harvard University, to discuss Title IX, sexual assault on campuses, and Theidon’s denial of tenure for supporting sexual assault victims. Click here to watch the video.

The White House showed clear intent that they are committed to stem sexual assaults on campuses across the country by releasing a set of guidelines and proposals today.  A White House task force admonished the role of colleges and universities administration in tackling sexual assault, with a response that shows the White House believes that…