Many Detroit, Michigan residents suffer with severe depression. Far from being just a bad day or a bad week, clinical depression can leave a person not feeling like themselves for months or even years. Depression can manifest itself in the ways a person behaves. They...
Employee And Union Rights
Employee And Union Rights
Year: 2017
What is sexual harassment?
More and more employees are coming forward each day about their difficult experiences with sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment allegations by employees at CBS and Fox News are currently in the headlines and numerous television and movie stars have...
Appealing a denial of disability for chronic pain
Especially with pressure from all corners for the government to run more efficiently, the Social Security Administration is rarely quick to accept any application for disability benefits on first go-around. This is especially true for Detroit, Michigan, residents and...
What medical conditions would qualify for unpaid leave?
The federal Family Medical Leave Act, or FMLA, requires employers of a certain size to hold their employees' jobs open. But, only in the event that employees take off of work for an extended period of time due to certain types of medical conditions. The purpose of...
Social Security disability is available for chronic pain
Many workers in the Detroit area may find themselves experiencing what doctors call chronic pain. What exactly causes chronic pain is still somewhat mysterious, though doctors strongly suspect it actually has something to do with the way one's brain and nervous system...
Overview of overtime exemption rules
As in other cases, the federal government establishes minimum standards when it comes to paying employees in the Detroit are or elsewhere overtime compensation, and states are free to go above and beyond these standards when writing their own wage and hour laws. It is...
Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Macomb County Clerk
Macomb County Circuit Judge Matthew Switalski has granted a temporary restraining order to employees of Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger. The case was brought by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 411, through their attorneys...
Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Macomb County Clerk
Macomb County Circuit Judge Matthew Switalski has granted a temporary restraining order to employees of Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger. The case was brought by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 411, through their attorneys...
Judge Grants Restraining Order Against Macomb County Clerk
Macomb County Circuit Judge Matthew Switalski has granted a temporary restraining order to employees of Macomb County Clerk Karen Spranger. The case was brought by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 411, through their attorneys...
If I am a victim of sexual harassment, whom do I have to tell?
Many Detroit area employees who have been the target of unwanted sexual advances, lewd jokes and the like may not really want to talk about their experience with anyone, much less someone whom they see as having more power and authority than themselves. After all,...