Supreme Court to Decide Whether Complaint Must be Written in Order to Be Covered under the FLSA's Anti-Retaliation Provision

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (7th Cir. 2009), in which that court held that an oral complaint of a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is not considered protected conduct under the Act’s anti-retaliation provision. Continue reading about this development at Littler's D.C. Employment Law Update blog.