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On behalf of Peterson, Berk & Cross, S.C.
n the wake of Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) settlement agreement involving H-1B wage violations, questions have been raised about the unfair effect this is having on the victims, the teachers who will be forced to leave their jobs and the United States once their H-1B time runs out. As part of the […]
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In a settlement agreement signed this month in connection with H-1B wage violations, Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) system must reimburse more than 1000 teachers $4.2 million in H-1B application fees and pay a $100,000 fine. The Department of Labor and USCIS have also barred the school system from filing applications for work […]
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Workers involved in Wisconsin unemployment proceedings are often tempted to play the “blame game.” Human instinct may tell you that it’s important to tell the unemployment interviewer or judge your opinions about what the employer did wrong. For example, say a worker was fired because the employer said the worker was “falsifying formwork,” and the […]
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On July 1, 2011, John Kroner, a Wisconsin resident represented by Peterson, Berk & Cross and the firm’s attorney Michael Brown, filed a petition for review with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Mr. Kroner is appealing a Wisconsin Circuit Court’s decision, upheld by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, to transfer Mr. Kroner’s case from the Wisconsin forum to […]
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If you’re an employee in an employment dispute or legal dispute, you will be tempted- very tempted- to describe events in terms of adjectives or conclusions, i.e. labels. For example, a worker may want to tell a boss or a legal authority “I was treated unfairly” (the operative label being “unfair”), as compared to saying “On June 5th, Supervisor […]
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PBC Attorney Amy Risseeuw has authored two articles for The Verdict, a magazine of the Wisconsin Association for Justice: “Judicial Estoppel, A Cautionary Tale,” and “Apropos of a Cautionary Tale.”
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PBC Attorney Amy Risseeuw has authored two articles for The Verdict, a magazine of the Wisconsin Association for Justice: “Judicial Estoppel, A Cautionary Tale,” and “Apropos of a Cautionary Tale.”
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