Where a Massachusetts Wage Act complaint for unpaid wages and accrued paid time off has been removed from state court, the plaintiff’s request for a remand should be denied because her claims a...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/26/employment-preemption-lmra-3/
Where a plaintiff has moved for summary judgment on her wage claims, that motion must be denied because even if the plaintiff worked more than 40 hours each week or skipped meal breaks, the recor...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/25/employment-overtime-constructive-knowledge-2/
Where the respondent Braintree Contributory Retirement System decided to exclude from a petitioner’s regular compensation a $63,163.36 payment made to her under a settlement agreement between t...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/23/retirement-settlement-proceeds-regular-compensation/
Where a complaint has been filed alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, the complaint’s counts under the Defend Trade Secrets Act and the Massachusetts Uniform Trade Secrets Law must be di...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/20/employment-trade-secrets-precautions/
Where the State Board of Retirement denied a petitioner’s application to purchase certain contract service from Oct. 22, 2007, through May 13, 2010, the board’s decision should be affirmed be...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/20/retirement-purchase-of-credit-prior-service/
Where the State Board of Retirement denied a petitioner’s application to purchase credit for a period of pre-membership service, the petitioner did not prove that his work for the Somerville Tr...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/20/retirement-credit-supervision-and-control/
A Cambridge police officer could not bring a §1983 suit asserting that the city violated his free speech rights by disciplining him over a Facebook post that disparaged police brutality victim G...
Where a plaintiff has alleged gender discrimination and retaliation, one of the individual defendants is entitled to dismissal of the claims against him because a complaint the plaintiff filed wi...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/19/employment-discrimination-gender-15/
Where a remand has been ordered regarding a Chelsea Soldiers’ Home employee’s claim for accidental disability retirement, the petitioner has shown by a preponderance of the evidence that the ...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/19/retirement-accidental-disability-causation-17/
Where the plaintiff, a Cambridge police officer, was placed on leave for reposting an article about a police reform bill called “the George Floyd Act” on his personal Facebook page, the defen...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/18/employment-free-speech-facebook/