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		<title>College admission representatives regularly denied overtime wages</title>
        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarelson Law Firm is now representing &#8220;admission representatives&#8221; in unpaid wage and unpaid overtime lawsuits. Admission representatives are generally not exempt from overtime laws, but are frequently not paid overtime. If you or someone you know is or was an admission representative at any private, for profit college, feel free to contact our law firm to learn your legal rights. Florida is rife with private, for-profit colleges and the blog has previously covered regulations that radically effect the industry. Major colleges include Everest, Corinthian College, MedVance Institute, Florida Technical College, Florida National College, Florida Career College and dozens of others. This industry has the potential to provide much needed educational opportunities to individuals who would not otherwise be able to gain upward social and economic mobility, but the industry also has the potential to waste students&#8217; time and money. Private, for-profit colleges make significant money, it should not come at...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/07/college_admission_representati.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarelson Law Firm Expands into Key West and the Florida Keys</title>
        <pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Miami-based Sarelson Law Firm has expanded its practice into Key West and the Florida Keys. We represent employees in these types of cases: Unpaid wages Unpaid overtime Tipped employees improperly paid (waitresses, bartenders, etc.) Independent contractors who are really employees are entitled to employee protection Sexual harassment Gender discrimination Racial discrimination Age discrimination Religious discrimination Retaliation and whistleblowing Government fraud whistleblowing Pension and retirement disputes Non-compete and non-solicitation agreement Executive compensation agreements Athlete and Personality Representation Any employee with any workplace or pay issue should consult with an experienced employment attorney to ensure that your rights are being protected and enforced. We also represent consumers and individuals in class actions, consumer protection matters and personal injury. Sarelson Law Firm encourages you to contact a local attorney (whether he advertises in the yellow pages, on a bus bench or word of mouth), and then compare those services to the quality and...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/07/sarelson_law_firm_expands_into.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Abercrombrie &amp; FItch Lose Religious Discrimination Trial Brought by Employee with a Head Scarf</title>
        <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal court has agreed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that national clothing retail giant Abercrombie &#038; Fitch, doing business as Abercrombie Kids, committed religious discrimination against a 17-year-old Muslim girl, the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that Abercrombie Kids failed to hire Samantha Elauf for a sales position because she wore a hijab, or head scarf, in observance of her sincerely held religious beliefs. U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frizzell granted summary judgment to the EEOC after finding that Abercrombie and Fitch failed to produce sufficient evidence to dispute the EEOC&#8217;s claims (EEOC v. Abercrombie &#038; Fitch Stores, Inc., Case No. 09-CV-602-GKF-FHM). Damages will be determined by a jury at a later date. The court found that Abercrombie Kids refused to hire Elauf in June 2008 for a position at its store in Woodland Hills Mall in Tulsa, Okla., because she was wearing the...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/07/abercrombrie_fitch_lose_religi.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking:  Eleventh Circuit reinstates discrimination lawsuit against Lockheed-Martin filed by white employee</title>
        <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The Eleventh Circuit _______. The opinion is here: Smith v. Lockheed Martin &#8211; Reverse Discrimination//]]></description>
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		<title>Can you sue your supervisor when the supervisor gets you fired?</title>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[If your boss or your supervisor is a total jerk and sets you up to be fired or to fail, do you have any legal action against that supervisor? The answer in Florida was always &#8220;maybe,&#8221; but thanks to a landmark appeal handled by Sarelson Law Firm, we now know that the answer is yes. I represent the plaintiff in an employment discrimination lawsuit against Arbor E&#038;T and its parent company, Res-Care. On behalf of my client, a black Haitian American, we also sued her immediate supervisor because the immediate supervisor fired my client out of racial animus. The trial court dismissed the count of tortious interference against the supervisor. We appealed, and we prevailed on appeal. The Third District Court of Appeal correctly held that an employee can sue a co-worker at the same company for tortious interference when the co-worker acts with ulterior motives not in the best...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/06/can_you_sue_your_supervisor_wh.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Deco Electrical Contractors violate David-Bacon Act &#8212; Construction Workers Compensated</title>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $240,987 in back wages for 33 electricians employed by now-defunct Deco Electrical Contractors Inc., following an investigation that found the employees had been misclassified as lesser-paid laborers and denied proper compensation for all hours worked, in violation of the prevailing wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts. At the time of the investigation, Deco Electrical Contractors was performing as a contractor on the city of Hialeah&#8217;s Elderly Affordable Housing Project, a public-works construction project partially funded through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and subject to provisions of the DBRA. &#8220;When contractors bid on a federally funded project, they agree to pay the prevailing wages as listed in the contract&#8217;s Davis-Bacon wage determination,&#8221; said Will Garnitz, director of the Miami District Office of the Labor Department&#8217;s Wage and Hour Division. &#8220;This case demonstrates that the Labor Department will use every...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/06/deco_electrical_contractors_vi.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking: SCOTUS Clarifies the Test for Awarding Fees when a Party is Partially Successful</title>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[For years federal courts have wrestled with how to handle an award of attorneys&#8217; fees when a party is only partially successful. For example, if you file an age discrimination claim under the ADEA and a sex discrimination claim under Title VII, how does the trial court award fees if you prevail on only one of the two claims? Some courts would award all of your attorneys&#8217; fees without discounting for the fact that you did not prevail on a specific claim. Other courts would cut the attorneys&#8217; fees in half because you only prevailed on half of the lawsuit. Still other courts would arbitrarily reduce the attorneys&#8217; fees by an amount fair to the losing party by virtue of the fact that it may have prevailed on some of the claims. (This third approach is completely arbitrary and gives trial judges virtually unlimited discretion to award the amount of...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/06/breaking_scotus_clarifies_the.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Hospital Pays $101,000 to Settle Gender Discrimination Lawsuit</title>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[East Hawaii Veterinary Center, LLC, a veterinary clinic in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, will pay $101,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal sexual and gender-based harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. According to the EEOC&#8217;s suit, a co-owner of the clinic regularly subjected female employees &#8211; who ranged from receptionists to a veterinarian &#8211; to harassing conduct since at least 2005. On a near-daily basis, the co-owner insulted female staff by making unwelcome sexual remarks, as well as disparaging and hostile comments about women. In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that the clinic failed to exercise reasonable care to prevent and correct the unlawful harassing behavior. The EEOC also contended that the offending co-owner fired at least three of the women and forced others to quit. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/06/animal_hospital_pays_101000_to.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>KPMG Biased Against Women?</title>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarelson Law Firm, P.A. is accepting clients who work or have worked for accounting giant KPMG and who believe they were discriminated against because they were female. The accounting firm is accused of creating of male dominated culture where women are not promoted due to gender stereotypes. If you or someone you know worked for KPMG and was discriminated against because of that person&#8217;s gender, feel free to contact our Firm today.]]></description>
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		<title>AutoZone hit with $600,000 verdict in disability discrimination case</title>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal court jury in Peoria has returned a verdict of $600,000 against AutoZone, Inc. for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a disabled sales manager, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. An additional claim for $115,000 in back pay will be decided by the presiding judge at a later date. In the lawsuit brought by the EEOC, AutoZone was charged with requiring a sales manager to perform certain cleaning tasks, including mopping floors, that violated his medical restrictions. The sales manager, who worked at the company&#8217;s Macomb, Ill., retail store until 2003, is disabled with permanent back and neck impairments. The EEOC presented evidence that mopping floors was a non-essential function of the sales manager position that could have been reassigned to other employees, and that the employee could perform all of the essential functions of his job. The sales manager testified that that he...<br /> <a href="http://www.floridaemploymentlawyerblog.com/2011/06/autozone_hit_with_600000_verdi.html">Read More &#187;</a>]]></description>
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