Employment, Labor & Benefits Alert: Supreme Court Expands Antiretaliation Protection
3/23/2011
Employers have long been aware that a failure to investigate complaints of workplace discrimination or harassment may lead to significant liability, even if those complaints are made orally or are otherwise informal. On March 22, in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., the Supreme Court made clear that employers ignore wage-related complaints at their own risk, by holding that even oral complaints fall within the antiretaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
