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Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) in 1938 to help relieve the downward spiral of wages in the Great Depression.  With time changing technology,  and modern  computers,  individuals  often  perform  work  on  someone else’s behalf while sitting at home under an arrangement that has become known as “crowdsourcing.” Crowdsourcing harnesses the collaborative nature …

Gene Morphis and his connection to Facebook and Twitter are very similar to the rest of the world, using social media to vent about his tribulations with his job. However, Mr. Morphis wasn’t like most employees.  He happened to be the Chief Financial Officer of a public company, Francesa’s Holding Corporation.  Unfortunately, his ruminations cost …

More than 200,000 long-term jobless Americans will lose their unemployment checks this week, when eight states roll off the federal extended benefits program.  Nearly half of them live in California, and the rest reside in Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Colorado, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Texas. Florida’s unemployed workers who are getting federal extended unemployment benefits can …

On Friday, one of Yahoo’s largest shareholders gave the Company an ultimatum that Chief Executive, Scott Thompson be fired by noon on Monday, or the investor “will consider it grounds for further action.” The dissident investor, hedge fund Third Point LLC, first brought to light on Thursday, that Mr. Thompson didn’t earn a college degree …

When applying to a job, many employers conduct criminal background checks for applicants or new hires in order to complete due diligence. In fact, the National Consumer Law Center reports that 93 percent of employers run criminal background checks on some job candidates, and 73 percent of employers conduct such checks on all potential new …