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One Kansas City fast-food employee emerged as a leader in last year’s protest to raise the minimum wage for the nation’s lowest paid workers; this year he traveled to Las Vegas to give an address to the NAACP at their annual national convention. His message is one that is beginning to reverberate among those in the employee rights movement: Increasing…
A recent accident in Missouri has taken the lives of two individuals and injured two others. Apparently, the truck accident transpired when a tractor trailer attempted to make a left-hand turn as it was heading northbound. However, as the driver attempted to make this turn, a smaller truck was traveling southbound. Unfortunately, the result was a deadly collision. Reportedly, the…
A police officer in Hazelwood, Missouri, is facing accusations of sexual harassment. The woman who is making those accusations even took out a restraining order against the man. She indicated that the harassment happened at a gas station, while she was at work. The woman’s attorney made the case out to be much more than just a one-time event, though.…
When Missouri residents need dental care, they would naturally want to be able to trust the dentist to provide care of an acceptable standard. When a dentist fails to resolve one’s dental problems, it could result in numerous consultations and ongoing pain. A dentist in another state is facing a medical malpractice lawsuit that includes a claim for a failure…
The way Missouri companies express themselves is very important, and much can be gleaned from the terminology executives and supervisors use when referring to their employees who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. There are as many terms as there are shades of skin color, but an unequivocally respectful term remains LGBT. While most are familiar with the terms lesbian…
Missouri workers who hire through staffing agencies like Labor Ready should be aware that in the past, in this state and elsewhere around the nation, the company failed to pay its workers the “prevailing wage” rates when they worked on public work projects like maintaining or construction of public buildings. The industrial staffing firm TrueBlue Inc. is the parent company…
In a curious case involving a face-off between two governmental agencies, the federal Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for Missouri’s Eastern District against the United States Postal Service. The litigation filed is on behalf of an employee who worked in the maintenance department of the St. Louis Network Distribution Center located in…
Vehicle crashes are common occurrences on the road. However, there are some types of crashes which are more dangerous than others and have a higher chance of resulting in an injury. One of these types of crashes is when a vehicle completely rolls over. This is what happened recently in a Missouri truck accident which resulted in multiple injuries. The…
In an industry dominated by males, there is a twist to the sexual harassment accusations against a Yahoo tech executive by a software engineer formerly employed with the company. Both are females. The former engineer recently filed a complaint alleging that she was wrongfully terminated and subjected to emotional distress and sexual harassment by the senior engineering director. The executive…
The slide down the slippery slope has begun and was signaled by the recent ruling by the Supreme Court that allows profit-earning corporations religious exemptions from provisions of the Affordable Care Act they find offensive to their religious beliefs. But the blow to employee rights in Missouri and elsewhere is far more severe than was immediately apparent. As the majority…