About Ron Miller
Ronald Miller is currently a senior writer/analyst for WK's Employment Law Daily. He has over 30 years of experience in analyzing and explaining legislative, regulatory, and case law developments, in labor and employment law. Prior to his role with Employment Law Daily, Ronald was managing editor of the Labor Law Journal and an analyst with WK's Labor and Employment Law portfolio.
Recent posts by Ron Miller:
- Free speech rights didn’t save firefighter from misuse of employer’s internal email system, Sep 27, 2016
- Employee’s admission she took birdseed not justification for union to abandon grievance, Aug 25, 2016
- Employee’s crying foul on race discrimination after positive drug test result doesn’t save job, Jul 26, 2016
- Fire captains were primarily first responders, so entitled to overtime pay, Jun 23, 2016
- Union’s duty of fair representation preempts claims made under New York Human Rights Law, May 24, 2016
- Application of same pay practices to all employees not enough to bind collective action, Apr 21, 2016
- Employees score win in use of statistical evidence to support wage-hour class certification, Mar 22, 2016
- Employer entitled to reimbursement of training costs from employee who leaves employ prematurely, Feb 11, 2016
- Immigrant worker program takes center stage in recent appellate decisions, Jan 12, 2016
- Care required in explaining employer’s position to putative class members, Nov 03, 2015
- Monitoring computer during lunch not enough to warrant overtime pay, Oct 01, 2015
- ‘Volunteer’ blogging for employer leads to claim for overtime compensation, Sep 01, 2015
- Document review by contract attorney may not be enough to establish ‘practice of law’, Jul 28, 2015
- Employee fired for reporting child pornography activities of employer stated wrongful discharge claim, Jun 30, 2015
- Words wound and employers may be required to pay for those injuries, May 28, 2015
- Walmart pharmacist could pursue claim for promised overtime to straighten out pharmacy, Apr 28, 2015
- Supervisor’s email defining compensable ‘work’ after service technicians filed wage suit was improper, Mar 31, 2015
- Challenges mount against efforts to unionize home health care workers, Feb 24, 2015
- Employer speculation insufficient to bar applicant with drug conviction from hospital job, Jan 29, 2015
- Court vacates DOL third party domestic service employer regulation, Dec 23, 2014
- Employee awarded unemployment benefits because employer failed to follow drug testing protocol, Nov 18, 2014
- J.C. Penney fails in attempt to use “pick-off strategy” to short-circuit FLSA collective action, Oct 17, 2014
- Employer’s failure to educate theory of liability revived on appeal, Sep 17, 2014
- Coercing employee to work after childbirth prejudiced FMLA rights, Aug 14, 2014
- Union attempt to collect dues from expelled member lawful, Jul 25, 2014
- Employer’s very suggestion that employee take polygraph examination violates EPPA, Jul 17, 2014
- President Obama’s recess appointments to NLRB declared unconstitutional, Jun 26, 2014
- Court reminds public employers that standard for applicant drug testing different than for private employers, Jun 10, 2014
- Employee pushes back against employer requirement that workers sign noncompetition agreements, May 01, 2014
- Employees find Facebook postings not entirely their own, Mar 11, 2014
- It’s time to reevaluate defense strategies against employment discrimination claims, Jan 16, 2014
- Law firm should have paid closer attention to its responsibility to client, Jan 02, 2014
- New split in Circuit Courts regarding whether EEOC’s failure to conciliate a defense to a discrimination suit, Dec 23, 2013
- Employee’s speech on matter of “public concern” still got him lawfully fired by school district, Dec 18, 2013
- Attorney whistleblowers weighed down by ethical obligations, Nov 13, 2013
- End run around plaintiff’s counsel to reach settlement didn’t spare employer obligation to pay attorneys’ fees, Oct 08, 2013
- Court can’t disregard fluctuating workweek method in calculating overtime for store managers, Sep 03, 2013
- Logging into computer or phone system at start and end of work shifts may actually be compensable for affected employees, Jul 30, 2013
- Court declines to compel enforcement of arbitration agreement rolled out in attempt to short circuit overtime pay lawsuit filed by store managers, Jun 26, 2013
- Controversial NLRB notice posting rule vacated because it violates employers’ free speech rights, May 07, 2013
- Paying close attention to detail a must when drafting employment policies, Apr 16, 2013
- Successor liability attaches to satellite-TV provider for unpaid overtime claims of installation technicians, Mar 19, 2013
- Voluntary dismissal of FLSA collective action based on individual private settlement did not require fairness hearing or court approval, Feb 26, 2013
- Employer did nothing wrong by firing pre-FMLA eligible employee after she advised him of need for cancer surgery once she became FMLA eligible, Jan 21, 2013
- Employment policies also have a place in the discussion of gun ownership, Dec 21, 2012
- Burden shifting framework of McDonnell-Douglas improperly applied to analysis of interference claim under California Family Rights Act, Nov 20, 2012
- Voter rights, campaign finance take center stage as general election approaches, Oct 25, 2012
- Despite employee challenges, courts find fluctuating workweek method proper for calculating overtime pay, Sep 27, 2012
- One court demands that employee wage complaints be made to government entity, while another says complaint to employer sufficient, Aug 03, 2012
- Eighth Circuit finds economic downturn fell within “unforeseeable business circumstances” exception; approves abbreviated WARN Act notice for U.S. Steel, Jul 05, 2012
