Retaliation continues to be the #1 employment law issue. The
U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has just issued new fact sheets on the topic of retaliation.
Fact
Sheet #77A, Prohibiting Retaliation Under the Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA), provides general information concerning the
FLSA’s prohibition of retaliating against any employee who has filed a
complaint or cooperated in an investigation and is available on the WHD website
at http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs77a.htm
Fact
Sheet #77B, Protection for Individuals under the
FMLA, provides general information concerning the Family and Medical
Leave Act’s (FMLA) prohibition of retaliating against an individual for
exercising his or her rights or participating in matters protected under the
FMLA and is available on the WHD website at http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs77b.htm
