Retaliation Under the FLSA - Where Do We Stand?
Inside Counsel
May 7, 2012, Wendy K. Voss, E. Chaney Hall
The Supreme Court dramatically changed how employees may file complaints with their employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) last year in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. Based on the statutory language, courts previously had routinely found that an employee must file a complaint in writing to be protected by the statute’s anti-retaliation provisions.