Camille Olson Quoted in Employment Law360
“Employment Cases of the Decade”

Camille Olson was quoted in the January 19, 2009 Employment Law360 article, "Employment Cases of the Decade." The article discussed how rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court over the past 10 years have narrowed the definition of employment disability, limited the statute of limitation on pay disparity claims, heightened the bar for proving age discrimination in the workplace and, on more than on occasion, saw congressional intervention.

The article noted the IBP Inc. v. Alvarez case where the Supreme Court reaffirmed the continuous workday doctrine, ruling that the time a group of meatpackers spent putting on their uniforms and walking to the assembly line was compensable. Camille commented that the ruling underscored the disparity between the modern workplace and the day-to-day realities that the Fair Labor Standards Act grew out of, and that the workplace has grown even more sophisticated since 2005. The article noted that with the proliferation of portable devices such as PDAs, cell phones and laptops, which give employees access to their jobs when they are not physically on-site, the need for more Supreme Court guidance is clear. Camille observed, "We don't work in one continuous time period like people did when the FLSA was passed."