Massachusetts Employment Law Blog

The First Circuit Court of Appeals recently held, in Campbell v. General Dynamics Government Systems Corp., that an employer’s use of email was insufficient to notify employees regarding a mandatory arbitration policy. As a result, the court dismissed the company’s attempt to force employees to arbitrate a grievance under the Americans with Disabilities Act, rather…

The United States Department of Labor has issued rules revising the criteria used to determine whether employees may be classified as “exempt” (e.g., salaried) from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). These rules went effective August, 2004. The last significant change they made to these rules was…