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1 Jul 2013, 1:53 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Authored by Robert Whitman  The lawsuit against Hearst Corporation on behalf of interns who claim they should have been paid as employees got a jolt of life last week when the judge supervising the case certified the class certification issue for an immediate appeal (See here). [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 5:10 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Egan and Robert Whitman Retail and hospitality employers should perk up at the recent decision (here) by the New York Court of Appeals to affirm Starbucks’ tip pooling policy. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 9:46 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by: Robert Whitman, Cameron Smith, John DiNapoli and Zack Sharpe Earlier today, the New York City Council voted to override Mayor Bloomberg’s veto and re-passed the Earned Sick Time Act. [read post]
20 Jun 2013, 2:08 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by James Hlawek, Richard Alfred and Robert Whitman Is a waiver of class arbitration enforceable in cases where the plaintiff’s cost of individually arbitrating her federal statutory claim exceeds her potential recovery and is, therefore, not economically feasible? [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 5:23 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Authored by Robert Whitman Advocates for interns seeking wage payments under federal and NY law received some welcome news this week with the decision in Glatt v. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 11:52 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In response to this exorbitant price tag, Congressman Robert Andrews (D-NJ) offered an amendment eliminating the proposed increase and effectively barring the construction of permanent facilities at Guantánamo. [read post]
23 May 2013, 11:31 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Egan and Robert Whitman We reported [here] in November on the Second Circuit’s referral of two important Labor Law questions to the New York Court of Appeals in a challenge to Starbucks’ tip-pooling policy. [read post]
16 May 2013, 12:40 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Robert Whitman and Carlos Lopez Some good news for New York employers awaiting authorization to make wage deductions under the 2012 amendments to the state’s Labor Law:  the Department of Labor has posted draft rules on its website, indicating that the wait for official regulations may be coming to an end. [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 4:30 am by Steve McConnell
  “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” Robert Frost. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
By 2010, former two-term governor Jerry Brown decided someone had to save this state, so he mounted a modestly-financed campaigned against the winner of the GOP primary, Meg Whitman, who carried so much GOP baggage into the general election that even spending $180 million (of mostly her own money) could not prevent her from being crushed by Brown. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 9:24 pm by Lloyd J. Jassin
   In a chapter on Ezra Pound, Robert Spoo, a law professor, laments that the general spirit of unpermissiveness and paranoia of the current copyright regime which befuddles and intimidates contemporary artists and authors. [read post]
16 Nov 2012, 9:24 pm by Lloyd J. Jassin
   In a chapter on Ezra Pound, Robert Spoo, a law professor, laments that the general spirit of unpermissiveness and paranoia of the current copyright regime which befuddles and intimidates contemporary artists and authors. [read post]