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:
- Employer’s attempt to contractually shorten limitations period on FMLA claim fails, Nov 28, 2017
- Kraft retirees had no vested right to health care benefits beyond termination of CBAs, Sep 21, 2017
- No absolute right to presence of union representative in investigatory hearing, Aug 22, 2017
- Eleventh Circuit announces standard for voluntariness of an employee’s resignation, Jul 20, 2017
- Employee’s refusal to provide social security numbers of children results in denial of enrollment in health plan, Jun 15, 2017
- Paralift van drivers entitled to overtime pay because capacity of vans measured by present configuration, May 16, 2017
- Airport workers with ‘supervisor’ in job title properly found to be non-supervisory, Apr 20, 2017
- Employer may violate minimum wage if tip credit applied to hours not tip-credit eligible, Mar 14, 2017
- NLRB regional director authorized to take steps to protect integrity of Board processes, Feb 09, 2017
- Employees taking a rest period break can’t be required to remain ‘on call’, Jan 10, 2017
- Seventh Circuit finds that student athletes not employees entitled to minimum wage under FLSA, Dec 08, 2016
- Employee’s claim for overtime pay based on ‘gap time’ claim not covered by FLSA, Nov 08, 2016
- ‘Going and coming rule’ shields employer from liability for vehicle crash, Oct 27, 2016
- 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