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Posted in Investigations & Training
On Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that significantly narrows the category of employees who may be protected whistleblowers under the Dodd-Frank Act.1 In a case entitled Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers, the Court held that Dodd-Franks prohibition on employer retaliation against whistleblowers only covers individuals who made reports of suspected violations of the securities laws to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).
Paul Somers was an employee of Digital Realty Trust, a San-Francisco based realty firm, whose employment was ...
Posted in Class Action & Litigation, Wage & Hour
With many laws protecting workers classified as employees and not offering protection for those classified as independent contractors, a workers classification has broad implications for the worker and for the company using the workers services. In the rise of the sharing economy, companies like Uber Technologies, Inc. and Grubhub, Inc. have classified their drivers as independent contractors; and workers have turned to the courts to challenge that classification.
In the first federal court decision on this issue, a federal magistrate judge in California ruled on February 8 ...
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