Recently, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis employment law firm, filed a class and collective action lawsuit on behalf of its clients, a group of home healthcare workers, to recover unpaid wages for time that the employees spent working “off the clock.” The plaintiffs, who worked for SSM Health at Home as home healthcare workers, assert […]

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released a proposed update to a rule that governs overtime pay for salaried workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL is seeking to amend the “white collar” exemption that excludes certain executive, administrative, and professional employees from overtime protections. A worker’s status as an exempt

In a recently filed federal court lawsuit, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, an employment law firm based in St. Louis, Missouri, asserted claims on behalf of its client, a nursing mother who alleges that her employer, Murphy Oil USA, Inc., disallowed her from expressing breast milk at work in violation of federal and state law. The

On July 27, 2015, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, an employment law firm located in St. Louis, Missouri, filed a gender harassment and retaliation lawsuit on behalf of its client, Marlene Schmittling-Nolan, against Missouri American Water Company, which is local water and wastewater company that supplies water and water treatment to local communities within St. Louis County,

On June 10, 2015, Riggan Law Firm, LLC, a St. Louis employment law firm, filed a federal court lawsuit on behalf of its clients, Plaintiffs Andrew Bone and Christopher Bone, against the St. Charles County (Missouri) Ambulance District, in order to seek legal redress for the District’s policy of denying insurance and other benefits to

In the recent case of Johnson v. Wheeling Machine Products, the United States District Court for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes Missouri) upheld summary judgment for an employer in a case filed under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The Court issue was whether a plant worker who took leave for several

In the recent case of Beauford v. ActionLink, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (which includes Missouri) ruled against an employer who improperly classified employees as exempt from the overtime protections of the FLSA. The Court held that employees who received and cashed settlement checks issued as a result of a

In the recent case of Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously this month that a temp agency was not required to pay workers at Amazon warehouses for the time they spent waiting to go through a security screening at the end of the day. The anti-theft process at the

On February 19, 2015, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, in the case of Harvill, et al. v. Phelps County Restaurant, LLC d/b/a Colton’s Steak House & Grill, issued an Order conditionally certifying the case as a collective action pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. Section 216(b). The