Labor and Employment

The owner of a medical clinic that improperly deducted the cost of H-1B visas and J-1 waiver fees from wages of foreign workers was found personally liable for back pay and fines by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Confidential information posted online is enough to trigger claims for data privacy, even if no one reads it, a Virginia federal court found in a case where patients uncovered their own medical records using a simple Google search.

OSHA’s Assistant Secretary of Labor has pressed Congress to extend the 30-day statute of limitations for whistleblower complaints, but until then the agency said it plans to refer complaints filed after that time period to the NLRB.

The Indiana Court of Appeals found that an employee’s non-compete clause was voided when he was fired, though he was re-hired within days.

There were more references to “wage theft” in U.S. newspapers during the last six months than there were in the entire span from 2000 to 2010, says Sam Diehl with Gray Plant Mooty, but the term is just a new way to describe violations of wage and hour laws.

In the case of an employee who took a new job, in direct violation of the one-year notice period mandated by his employment contract, the UK’s High Court found the employer could refuse to allow the worker to resign.