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In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., that oral complaints of a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act can constitute protected activity under the FLSA’s anti-retaliation provision.  But the question whether an oral complaint made to a private employer rather than to the
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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that oral complaints of a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) constitute protected activity under the FLSA’s anti-retaliation provision.  In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., No. 09-834 (March 22, 2011), the Court resolved the split among jurisdictions regarding the sufficiency of oral versus written complaints, and

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