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The North Carolina Court of Appeals recently issued an interesting decision in Wang v. UNC-CH School of Medicine. The majority agreed with the trial court in finding that employees who are excluded from the State Personnel Act are still entitled to p… Read More

In Kennedy v. St. Joseph’s Ministries, Inc., Villa St. Catherine is a tax-exempt religious organization that operates a nursing care facility under the direction of the Daughters of Charity, a religious order within the Roman Catholic Church, and m… Read More

In International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 289 v. Verizon South, Inc., the Union has filed suit in federal court (Middle District of North Carolina) to compel the company to engage in arbitration regarding the termin… Read More

In, Cape Fear Public Transit Authority v. Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1328, the Wilmington transit authority is challenging a labor arbitration in favor of the Union, which ordered a terminated employee be put back to work. This case is bef… Read More

The Fourth Circuit recently issued a troubling 2-1 decision in Dellinger v. Science Applications International Corp. The majority (Judges Niemeyer and Keenan) held that under the anti-retaliation provision for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA, the… Read More

In Dellinger v. Sci. Applications International Corp., Natalie Dellinger sued her former employer, CACI, Inc., in July 2009 for alleged violations of the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime provisions. Around the same time, she applied for a job with… Read More

In Okoli v. City of Baltimore, John P. Stewart was the director of Baltimore’s Commission on Aging and Retirement (“CARE”) and served in the Mayor’s cabinet. In June 2004, Stewart hired Katrina Okoli, an Africa-American woman, to serve as his… Read More

The Fourth Circuit recently issued an excellent decision in Okoli v. City of Baltimore. This case presents claims under Title VII action for sexual harassment and retaliation (termination) for reporting the harassment. Amazingly, the trial court dism… Read More