• posted: Aug. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• wrongful termination,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A Detroit nurse was fired after posting a video on Facebook discussing the working conditions at her place of employment, Sinai Grace hospital. Now she has sued the hospital seeking Read More

• posted: Aug. 13, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• nysna

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) filed three lawsuits, alleging failures on the part of several healthcare entities to protect nurses in COVID-19 wards. The defendants in the suit Read More

• posted: Jul. 30, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• covid-19,  workplace safety

Meat packing plants across the nation have been in the news throughout the spring for the challenges they’ve faced in staying operational while also keeping their employees safe from the Read More

• posted: May 25, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• FLSA,  Unpaid Wages,  Wage and Hour Lawsuit

Advantage RN, LLC, a nurse staffing firm, agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a class action wage and hour lawsuit. Nurses working with the company alleged the firm routinely failed Read More

• posted: May 21, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• ADEA,  Older Workers Benefits Protection Act

A class action lawsuit filed in January alleges layoffs at AT&T in 2019 were designed to get rid of older employees, and that the company attempted to get those employees Read More

• posted: Apr. 27, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  Graft and Corruption,  Uncategorized,  Whistleblower Litigation,  New Legislation,  Fraud,  Employee Retirement Income Security Act,  Wrongful Termination
• corona virus,  covid,  fired during covid

In her article published April 23, 2020, on nbcdfw.com, Diana Zoga discusses a lawsuit filed in Dallas County in mid-April. The suit was filed by Amy Reggio, a woman who says Read More

• posted: Apr. 23, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation

Jackson National Life Insurance Company recently reached a $20.5 million settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) after claims the company harassed, discriminated against and retaliated against female and Read More

• posted: Mar. 05, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• OFCCP

The 2019 fiscal year was a record-setting year for the Office of Federal contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), a division of the Department of Labor. The OFCCP was created to ensure Read More

• posted: Feb. 10, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• $1 million in lost wages and punitive damages,  $500000 punitive damage

A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently awarded a pair of employees just over $1 million in lost wages and punitive damages. The Read More

• posted: Jan. 20, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Workplace Investigations

The #MeToo movement shined a much-needed light on issues involving sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. In this time of greater sensitivity to these issues, it is important that Read More

• posted: Dec. 26, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• bullied,  emotional distress,  intimidated and defamed by administrators,  negligent leadership,  stalked

Melanie Lemon, a former teacher for Williamson County Schools in Tennessee, was granted a partial appeal by the state’s Court of Appeals regarding a lawsuit that had been previously dismissed Read More

• posted: Oct. 03, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• $35 million settlement,  claim they were not being paid overtime,  FLSA violations often go unreported

A potential $35 million settlement between Wells Fargo & Co. and a number of current and former employees received preliminary approval by a federal judge. The settlement stems from a case Read More

• posted: Sep. 12, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• FMLA rights must be protected,  given a difficult time by an employer,  the Family and Medical Leave Act

A federal judge ruled a Burger King franchisee in Alabama illegally prevented a former employee from taking leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The employee in question, LaShondra Read More

• posted: May 27, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• firing was a result of her complaints,  form of retaliation,  retaliation for alerting higher-ups,  skilled whistleblower lawyer

Bridget Bryden, a former dispatcher for the Santa Barbara Police Department, recently filed a lawsuit against the department, claiming she was fired in 2016 as retaliation for alerting higher-ups in Read More

• posted: Apr. 25, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• employees use their fingerprints,  storing employee fingerprints

The Hooters chain of restaurants recently was in court recently to respond to a lawsuit alleging it violated an Illinois privacy law when it reportedly began collecting and storing employee Read More

• posted: Mar. 07, 2019
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• skilled whistleblower attorney,  wrongfully suspended

A pair of surgeons from Omaha filed a lawsuit against the city’s Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, claiming they were wrongfully suspended and then forced to resign certain privileges after Read More