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David Blanchard and Angela Walker have served Ann Arbor’s employees and business community for over ten years.
Every client deserves to be heard.
David Blanchard and Angela Walker have worked together for over ten years to provide high quality and timely responses to the emerging legal needs for individuals and businesses in Ann Arbor and Southeast Michigan.
Angela Walker provides advice and advocacy for employees facing discrimination at work, fighting a wrongful termination, or being denied compensation and benefits to which they are entitled.
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David Blanchard focuses on helping people get back to work, stay at work, fighting wage theft, and preventing retaliation and wrongful termination.
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Frances Hollander joined Blanchard & Walker in 2018 after working at the Michigan Court of Appeals. Frances received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Michigan in 2013.
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Many companies require workers to use their own cars for work, yet fail to reimburse their drivers adequately for the use of the car. Here’s what you don’t know about Pizza delivery drivers. Delivery drivers end up putting thousands of miles of wear-and-tear on their cars, paying for gas and repairs — before they realize the true cost of delivery driver work. (more…)
There is an “Commission Sales” overtime exemption under Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC Section 207(i)… but are those payments really “commissions”?Under Section 207(i) commission sales employees are exempt from overtime requirements, but only if:
There are plenty of people that work under phony “commission plans” who actually should receive overtime pay at time and a half for their hours over 40. (more…)
As Michigan employers prepare for a return to in-person work, Michigan’s Universities are leading the way on vaccination policies. On July 30, 2021, Both Michigan State University and the University of Michigan rolled out mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies for all employees (and students) returning to campus this fall. Many hospitals and health-care settings have already announced similar policies. With proper exemptions in place, mandatory vaccination policies (more…)
History repeated itself as hundreds of miners spilled out of buses in June and July to leaflet the Manhattan offices of asset manager BlackRock, the largest shareholder in the mining company Warrior Met Coal.
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