Guarding Against Whistleblower Protection Act Claims

What happens when you haven’t taken a course on the payment of wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act, you fail to pay an employee for pre-employment time spent on training and your employee reports you to the State of Michigan? Can you fire the employee? Can you treat the employee differently? What kind of reaction can you have when your employee reveals that he or she has reported you to the authorities even if you haven’t actually broken the law? This course explains all of the considerations trial courts make when deciding claims brought under the Whistleblowers Protection Act as well as recent decisions by trial and appellate courts describing how the application of this law can change based on the specific facts of a situation.