Employment Law – Discrimination Charges By The Numbers
According to statistics compiled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, there were 707 charges filed with the EEOC, within the state of Kansas, in the year 2015. Within the state of Missouri (in the same year) 1,868 charges were filed. Why were these numbers so different? As of 2015, the population of the entire state […]
Employment Law — Overtime
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employers pay their employees time and one-half their regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek. In other words, employees are generally entitled to at least 50 percent greater pay for all hours worked per week after 40. There are a number […]
Employment Law – Workplace Discrimination
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, I gave a one-hour presentation to Professor Tammy Broaddus’ Introduction to Entrepreneurship class at UMKC’s Bloch School of Management. A surprising number of questions from the audience centered around employment law. For that reason, I’m dedicating my firm’s first blog post to that topic. Employers cannot discriminate against a person on the basis […]