On April 12, the Public Access Counselor (“PAC”) issued a determination finding that a School District did not violate the Open Meetings Act (“OMA”) by holding a closed session to discuss the actions and interactions with an individual board member, […]
Two Seventh Circuit Cases Clarify Necessity of Termination Hearings for Public Employees
May 8, 2018
When is a hearing required in order to terminate a contracted public employee? The Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the government from taking away an individual’s property without a hearing, and an […]
In September 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration would terminate the DACA program, which provides protection from removal and work authorization to nearly 700,000 young people who have been unlawfully present in the U.S. since a […]
Franczek P.C. is pleased to announce that the firm has been named the highest-ranked boutique in Labor & Employment in Illinois for its work in the public and private sectors by prominent legal directory Chambers. Chambers is widely recognized as […]
On Monday, April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark decision establishing the presumption that a worker is an employee in that state unless the employer meets a three-prong “ABC” test. The Court’s ruling in Dynamex v. Superior Court […]
As mentioned previously here last summer, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division has brought back the Opinion Letter, the process previously used by attorneys and HR professionals to obtain guidance from the WHD. The DOL dropped the […]
Employers Can’t Use Salary History to Defend Pay Gap
April 12, 2018
On Monday, April 9, 2018, the day before Equal Pay Day, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that employers cannot use an employee’s past salary to justify paying women less than men under the federal Equal Pay Act (EPA). […]
New Tip Pool Rules – Changes to the FLSA and DOL Guidance
April 11, 2018
If you’ve been paying attention to the news relating to wage and hour law (and really, who isn’t?), you may recently have heard quite a bit about new federal rules on tipped employees, and more recently Congress stepping in with […]