By Laurie E. Meyer On July 14, 2014, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued “Enforcement Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination and Related Issues,” along with a Question and Answer document about the guidance and a Fact Sheet for small businesses. All are available on the EEOC’s website, www.eeoc.gov. This guidance...
President Obama directed the Department of Labor in March to come up with a way to update overtime pay rules to reflect the “changing nature of the American workplace” and to make them more” in keeping with the intention of the Fair Labor Standards Act." The review is intended to focus on the current “White Collar” exemptions which exclude...
By Bruce B. Deadman & Laurie E. Meyer On June 6, Federal District Judge Barbara Crabb held in Wolf et al v. Walker that the prohibition against same-sex marriages in Wisconsin found at Article XIII, § 13 of the Wisconsin Constitution violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Initially,...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team Access to personal Internet accounts by Wisconsin employers, educational institutions and landlords has been severely limited by a new law. As a result of 2013 Wisconsin Act 208, it is now illegal for a Wisconsin employer to request or require that an employee or applicant provide the employer...
By D|K's School and Higher Education Law Team On January 25, 2013, the U. S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR), issued guidance related to the participation of students with disabilities in extracurricular athletics. The guidance raised a variety of questions for school districts related to the scope of the guidance. The...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team 2013 Wisconsin Act 88 (Act 88) requires the registered sex offender to notify the District Administrator or his/her designee (Administrator) of the specific date, time and place of the visit and his/her status as a registered sex offender. This new law, which is effective as of December 15, 2013,...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team The 2013-2015 Biennial Budget Bill, 2013 Wisconsin Act 20 (“Act 20”) made substantial changes to Wisconsin’s Unemployment Compensation Laws. These changes, some of which became effective on September 30, 2013, and the rest on January 5, 2014, are intended to assist Wisconsin employers in reducing...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has refused to suspend an order issued just over a week ago by Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas. Judge Colas found the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) in contempt of court for proceeding with union recertification elections around the state...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team In a decision issued earlier this week, Judge Juan Colas of the Dane County Circuit Court found the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) Commissioners in contempt of court for enforcing 2011 Wisconsin Act 10. In September of 2012, Judge Colas ruled that certain provisions of Act 10...
By D&K's School and Higher Education Law Team In school districts[1] where the labor organization representing district employees filed a timely Petition for an Annual Certification Election with the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC), the school district has an obligation to post and distribute the Notice of Election form,...
