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When furloughs turned illegal: if you are salaried exempt, and work any part of the week, you are due one full week of pay.

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 1, 2011

The FLSA [federal Fair Labor Standards Act] requires companies to pay exempt, salaried employees a full week for any portion of the week worked. If the company imposes a furlough of one or more days off per work week, it runs afoul of this wage payment rule....

Tribalism: that subconscious force that operates to prefer people who are like us. Good side: survival, camaraderie. Bad side: racism.

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jul 1, 2011

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In Your Face Myspace! Newscorp bought at $580 M in 2005 and sold for 35M 6-29-11 to an Irvine Social Media Co.

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jun 30, 2011

How could this happen to a nice guy like Rupert Murdock? How about a better quality of experience on Facebook? Ease of use and easy access to apps? Yet, there is a lesson here for FB too. Somewhere, in some unexpected cubicle or academic cell,...

Let’s Cut the Lawyers First–Layoffs in a Rich City target the City Attorney’s Office.

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jun 30, 2011

I work in Newport Beach, a beautiful California community of shamelessly rich people. The dirty little secret is that many of residents are behind in their mortgage payments, and their big houses are “upside side.” There has always been a local...

Working Late Drafting Settlement Agreements–Beats Making and Opposing Motions, Yet, Not as Much Fun as Practicing Opening and Closing Statements.

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jun 29, 2011

http://www.jobattorney.net “Fighting for the Little Guy”

630 Million Weiners With No Protection: How Far Does the Stored Communications Act Go to Stop Subpoena of Your Social Postings?

by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jun 28, 2011

There was a time when people didn’t realize how they could hang themselves with emails. That was long ago, before corporate executives went to jail based on impulsive emails admitting their nefarious intentions. Now corporations have standard...

When furloughs turned illegal: if you are salaried exempt, and work any part of the week, you are due one full week of pay.

Tribalism: that subconscious force that operates to prefer people who are like us. Good side: survival, camaraderie. Bad side: racism.

In Your Face Myspace! Newscorp bought at $580 M in 2005 and sold for 35M 6-29-11 to an Irvine Social Media Co.

Let’s Cut the Lawyers First–Layoffs in a Rich City target the City Attorney’s Office.

Working Late Drafting Settlement Agreements–Beats Making and Opposing Motions, Yet, Not as Much Fun as Practicing Opening and Closing Statements.

630 Million Weiners With No Protection: How Far Does the Stored Communications Act Go to Stop Subpoena of Your Social Postings?

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