Massachusetts Employment Law Blog

Philip served on the Panel for the National Convention of NELA for the program entitled, “Class Actions After Dukes & Genesis HealthCare Corp: The Ongoing Attack On Representative Testimony In Class Actions,” NELA 2014 National Convention (June 25-28, 2014) (View Article) Growing Scrutiny Around Representative Evidence in Employment Class Actions The discussion focused on the…

A struggle for power at Market Basket will likely lead to more lawsuits, says Philip Gordon of Gordon Law Group LLP. The company CEO Arthur T. Demoulas and several other high up professional employees were fired on Monday by the board – which is controlled by rival cousin Arthur S. Demoulas. Several other employees resigned…

New legislation has been proposed that would increase the minimum salary basis level that employers need to pay as part of the requirements to avoid the overtime rules. Workers classified as executive, administrative or professional employees would have their weekly minimum pay more than doubled, and the floor for highly-compensated employees will increase too, by…

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.…

Massachusetts may soon introduce major updates to strengthen workplace rights. Lawmakers want to make employment laws clearer. They also aim to give employees fairer treatment and better mobility in the job market. Two crucial pieces of proposed legislation will be decided by July 31st.  The proposals include a hike in the minimum wage to $11.00…

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. One of the clients of Gordon…

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is preparing new guidance on pregnancy discrimination. Lawsuits around workplace bias against pregnant workers have risen fast. The agency now aims to clarify employer duties under major labor laws. This pregnancy discrimination guideline update will address gaps in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. The…

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…