Under Michigan’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (“MiOSHA”), employers may not “discharge an employee or in any manner discriminate against an employee because the employee filed a complaint” regarding the employer’s unsafe working conditions, among other things. MCL 408.1065(1). Any employee who “believes that he or she was discharged or otherwise discriminated against by a …
Federal Judge Sets Aside the FTC’s Noncompete Ban
Not so fast and not so final – for now. On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas sided with a plaintiff group comprised of a limited liability company, a coalition of various business groups, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and set …
Continue reading “Federal Judge Sets Aside the FTC’s Noncompete Ban”
Michigan Employers Must Increase Sick Time and Minimum Wage by February 21, 2025
The game of legal whiplash is over – Michigan employers (and employment lawyers) now know that the Earned Sick Time Act and Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act, as originally proposed, will go into effect on February 21, 2025. How did we get here? In an opinion issued on July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court …
Continue reading “Michigan Employers Must Increase Sick Time and Minimum Wage by February 21, 2025”