Structuring Employment

The analysis of joint employment under FLSA just changed, at least in the Fourth Circuit. Would the new test apply to religious organizations? Think through the factors of a joint employer relationship.

Sometimes when school boards worry about endorsing religion, they go too far the other way. This seems to have happened when fourth-grade J.G. was not allowed to hand out his Easter Egg Hunt invitations. A Florida federal court granted a preliminary injunction in favor of his student speech in Gilio v. School Board of Hillsborough County on October 5, 2012. It reasoned that J.G. was likely to win his arguments that the school had violated his constitutional rights.