It may be good public policy to include an employer’s preemptive conduct within the statutory proscription, or there may be adverse consequences to such a policy that are not apparent on its face. This court has insufficient information available to it to make such a far-reaching policy choice.
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What does the Supreme Court’s decision in Saint-Gobain mean for employer policies and planning?
By Keith A. Ashmus on
Posted in Wage and Hour
Most of the commentary on the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, 563 U.S. ___ (2011), available here, has focused on the fact that the Court apparently took a pro-employee, anti-business position by deciding that a relatively informal complaint about the location of a time clock could be considered a…